They accuse two Mexicans of having tortured and murdered a 19-year-old boy from the United States for drugs.
View of the Mexican city of Tijuana, in Baja California.
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Wyatt Valencia Pacheco, 21 years old and Tijuana neighbor, is stopped without the right to bail. Your accomplice, Jonathan Emmanuel Montellano Mora, 22 years old, is on the run.
The United States authorities have indicted for the murder of a young man from the United States, only identified with the initials MAR They are specifically charged with intentional murder during drug trafficking, hostage-taking resulting in death, and conspiracy to take hostages resulting in death.
Each charge implies a sentence of up to life imprisonment or death penalty.
On May 2020, Tree men they kidnapped a young man 19-year-old American, in a hotel in Tijuana. Your relatives in California they could see him bloody through a Facebook video call. In it, his captors asked for a ransom of between $ 2,000 and $ 3,000, but the fact ended in death.
The authorities believe that the murder is related to the theft of three pounds of methamphetamine. The victim, who had previously been arrested for trying to cross a border crossing with drugs, was about to try again when he was discovered by one of his perpetrators.
Valencia threatened him so thatgara, according to the calls obtained by the FBI, until surveillance cameras captured him and his accomplices taking the victim out of a Tijuana hotel by force.
Then came the contact by video call, until no more was heard from the young man. Although it has not been seen, neither he nor his body, the FBI assures that he was murdered.
It will be the December 16 when the next hearing of the only one detained in the case.
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