Accused Hitman Arrested - Worked As Public Security Officer
Hospitalized In The Capital City
This article appeared in El Sol De Parral on August 22, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).
Chihuahua, Chihuahua – August 22, 2008 – For two years and two months he worked in the Directorate of Public Security of the city of Parral - in the K9 task force: Luis Fidel Mendoza Sánchez, alleged hitman, was arrested and shot by the army on Monday in Chihuahua, and is currently under guard at the General Hospital in the capital city.
Following a report that the person shot and arrested by the Army on Monday was a cartel hitman, it was found that his job history belonged to the Cuauhtémoc and Parral City Public Security Agencies.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Luis Fidel Mendoza Sánchez served in the Municipal Public Security Bureau of Parral July 31, 2002 until October 2 of 2004, when he submitted his resignation voluntarily.
During his stay in the agency, Mendoza Sánchez was among the ranks of the "K9" group training with engineer Bernard Avitia Talamantes (qepd) while Enrique Villagraán was the Director of Public Safety.
It is noteworthy that never showed an act of indiscipline nor was there any creditable report of any irregularity in his work.
However, on Monday elements of the army seized firearms from him: AK-47s, R-15s, 9 mm pistols, bulletproof vests, boots and military-style uniforms, and also an apocryphal document that proves him to be an active element of the Office of the Republic Prosecutor-General, or PGR.
The capture was recorded at three p.m. at the 115th kilometer of the Cuauhtemoc-La Junta highway, where elements of the army fired at the driver of a white Dodge pick up that did not stop for the military presence.
The driver was injured and upon his arrest they secured his voter card and other identification under the name "Orlando Cisneros Ibarra, also he was carrying a badge of the Attorney General of the Republic with a green stripe on the left side, with National colors of the flag on it and his photo, with his name and folio number 374582 as Agent certifying that was a Federal Investigation Agent of the AFI.
HE REMAINS UNDER GUARD
CAPITAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Elements of the Mexican Army guard the Regional Hospital where the ex-policeman of Parral City and Cuauhtemoc and hitman in the service of a drug trafficking cartel Fidel Mendoza is detained under guard.
Soldiers of the fifth military zone are watching the various entrances to Regional Hospital in order to prevent any armed group coming to the hospital with the intention of rescuing the hitman, who since January this year joined the ranks of a drug trafficking cartel.
It should be noted that the subject received three firearm wounds when he failed to stop when ordered by military elements, who chased the vehicle and shot him, as well as his tires to stop his flight.
Monday afternoon a man was shot and detained by members of an Army group who was an agent of the Municipal Police in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc named Fidel Mendoza, who was carrying the same credentials with other names but with his own photograph.
So far his involvement in crimes that occurred on Saturday in Creel have not been proved, however he was arrested in the course of an operation carried out to search for the hired assassins and he is not excluded as one linked to those assasinations.
The detainee is a ex police agent who worked in the administration of Israel Móntes Beltrán and left the agency last December, who regretted that Cuauhtemoc city agents are linked in such acts, but reiterated that his guilt has not yet been confirmed.
It should be noted that Fidel Mendoza was carrying credentials, both as a IFE shopping mall agent and a credential in the name of the PGR under the name of Orlando Cisneros Ibarra.
Elements of the Mexican Army seized him and took away his firearms (AK-47, R-15, 9 mm pistols), bulletproof vests, boots and military-style uniforms, plus a document that showed him to be an asset of the PGR.
The PGR reported that the detainee is under guard by the Mexican Army and that he had given a sworn statement on the facts about what he was wrapped in, and for which he was arrested.
The capture occurred last Monday at three p.m. on the 115 kilometer Cuauhtemoc-La Junta Highway, where elements of the army fired at the driver of a white Dodge pick up white which did not stop for the military presence .
He received wounds from three bullets, so he had to be subjected to some surgeries. Once the detainee recovers from injuries, he will be turned over to the PGR and subsequently to CERESO prison, authorities reported.
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