The popular Monterrey footballer did not appear at a hearing, so a judge in Nuevo Leon released a new arrest warrant against him.
MONTERREY – The case against Jesús ‘Cabrit’ Arellano for rape took a new turn, after that New Leon authorities turned a new arrest warrant against him in the absence of an audience.
Documents in possession of ESPN Digital indicate that a criminal control and oral trial judge in the State of Nuevo León issued an arrest warrant against Arellano, Former player of the Scratched Monterrey.
The affected party filed an appeal in the past months in the investigation and before that a hearing was held on December 19, 2020, but the former player did not appear in it and only went be their lawyers.
Faced with this situation, the control judge ordered the arrest warrant against Jesús Arellano. A source even reported to ESPN that there have already been search warrants to find the whereabouts of the former player, who in 2017 was charged with rape, which meant to him at the time to have been in prison.
Jesús Arellano had been a fugitive from justice, but it was in May 2019 when the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Nuevo León reported that the former football player had been arrested and entered the Top Noi Penitentiary, In the municipality of Monterrey.
The also former Mexican national team was in prison in 2019 for five days, but his release was ordered after the judge considered there was not enough evidence to link him to trial, but now before the appeal of the affected party, again he is wanted by the authorities.