Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
A sentencing court imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison to four men for murdering Magdaleno Meza Fúnez, also known as Nery López Sanabria, which occurred on October 26, 2019 inside the maximum security prison known as El Pou, in Ilama, Santa Bárbara.
“The Public Ministry and the technical defense of the defendants reached an agreement, which is why the trial did not take place and the sentence of 20 years in prison was imposed, plus the accessory penalties of absolute disqualification and civil interdiction.” , he said Lucia Villars, Spokesman for the courts of the capital.
This is José Luis Orellana Canals, Víctor Manuel Pavón Prieto, Ricardo Adalid Martínez Argueta and Ricardo Antorio Gutiérrez García. All of them were greedy as a result of the recording of security cameras installed inside the prison.
According to the report of facts, the murder of Magdaleno Meza took place in one of the maximum security modules and it happened when the director of the prison gave information to the dead, then the order was given to open one of the doors, from where the defendant José Luis Orellana Canals came out with a pistol firing at humanity of Mass.
Later Victor Manuel Dark Pavón, Ricardo Adalid Martinez Argueta and Ricardo Antonio Gutiérrez Garci’a, armed with knives, intimidated to director and the guards and soon they inferred a series of wounds against Magdaleno Meza.
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Ricardo Martínez, alias El Tuy, accused of murder, threatened with a knife guards who were near Magdaleno Meza on the day he was killed; Víctor Pavón, alias El Pelón, already imprisoned for two murders and continued aggravated robbery, stabbed Magdaleno several times; Ricardo Gutiérrez, alias El Berro, noted for two murders and a simple homicide, also walked 1 knife the day Magdalen was killed; José Orellana, alias Cap, fired at Sanabria.
As a result of the multiple shootings, the inmate Fermín Alberto García Isaza, of Colombian nationality, and the military policeman Elías Natan Castell Sants were also injured.
Faced with this, one of Magdaleno Meza’s lawyers blamed the Honduran government for this murder, as he had repeatedly requested that his client be transferred to another prison because he had already been the victim of attacks.
Magdaleno Meza
was captured on June 6, 2018 on the west road, near Naco, with his wife Ericka Julissa Bandy and three of his workers. They were moving in two armored cars at the time of being intercepted.
When the capture was registered, 11 notebooks were confiscated containing notes that were mentioned by anti-drug agent Miguel Reynoso in the trial in New York against former deputy Juan Antonio Hernández, who was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Magdaleno Meza he was a partner of the Vall Vall brothers, Who, according to investigative reports, at the time of his capture was directing the activities of the cartel, his specialty was the transport of drugs in boats by the department of Thank God. He was charged with the offenses of money laundering, misuse of name and illegal storage of prohibited use firearms, so he had the measure of pretrial detention.
after pretend his death in 2016, Magdaleno made three attempts to escape from the Pou maximum security prison in Ilama, Santa Bárbara. The drug dealer faked his death by mounting a fake funeral where few people attended and showed a photograph of a corpse in a coffin to make it appear that he had been buried.
Lopez Sanabria registered its death in the National Registry of the People (RNP) and it was identified with a certificate with the name of Magdaleno Meza Fúnez. The position that it had in the organization of the drug trafficking entailed to that this one grazed a great fortune that allowed him to buy sumptuous houses and to be given luxuries because he was ostentatious.