The Sandinista militant and paramilitary confessed Marlon Gerardo Saenz Cruz, known as “Chinese Enoch”, faced trial for the alleged crimes of “illegal transportation of narcotics, psychotropics and other controlled substances; illegal carrying or possession of firearms or ammunition; and manufacturing, trafficking, possession and use of restricted weapons, explosive substances or devices.
On September 6 and 7, the trial against the former Sandinista guerrilla began, where the Prosecutor’s Office presented five Ortega Police officers, who claimed to have captured Chino Enoc on May 18, while he was traveling in a vehicle, in Estelí, with 7 , 241 grams of cocaine, two AK rifles and a 38 caliber revolver.
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In the complaint made by the Public Ministry, it is detailed that Sáenz Cruz was traveling together with Franklin Salgado Amador, a subject with a criminal record of drug trafficking.
Police against Chino Enoch
The agents of the dictatorship who testified before the judge Angel Jancarlos Fernandez are identified as Jose Armando Sequeira Gutierrez, a criminalistic chemical expert, was the first to testify. He explained the results of the chemical expertise of the drug and the explosives that the Ortega militant was allegedly carrying.
According to the newspaper La Prensa, the same officer mentioned that “the weapons seized from the accused are Russian-made AKs, as well as other explosive devices, allegedly found in a white Toyota Yaris vehicle in the Las Naranjitas community, in Esteli.
The other witness was the deputy commissioner, Rolando Jose Ortega, head of the ballistics section; this supposedly was in charge of doing the tests on the weapons found. He stated that “AK-47 rifle-type weapons were examined, each with five cartridges wrapped in bond paper, as well as a 38-caliber Taurus revolver with three cartridges.”
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The third non-commissioned officer to appear was Jefferson Calero, who made the inspection and photographic fixation of the place where the alleged events occurred. The agent stated how the two defendants were arrested.
The Prosecutor’s Office also presented as a fourth witness the inspector Arlen Urbina Zapata, crime scene specialist and one who collects samples at crime scenes. The officer indicated that she was in charge of collecting samples on the clothing and hands of those involved, allegedly throwing traces of cocaine.
The fifth officer was the anti-narcotics of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ) in Managua Maria Concepcion Palma Tellezwho stated the process of receiving the complaint against the defendants.
On the other hand, the court suspended the trial at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, who alleged that the rest of the witnesses did not attend, Rescheduling it for the 27th of this month.
Vicious against the faithful to Ortega
Two days before being kidnapped —May 16—, Chino Enoc had denounced on his social networks the siege by the Ortega Police, to the point that they would not even let him leave his house, so at that time a protest was declared. prisoner under house arrest.
“That is not protection, that is keeping me in jail (…) They are supposedly complying with the order to protect me, but they are also complying with the order not to let me leave the house. What is that called? Violation of my rights of mobilization, of transit through the country », he denounced at that time, through social networks.
On May 18, his family denounced that the Police had captured him at his home, in the municipality of Condega, Estelí, from where they would not let him leave, and he was transferred directly to the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, in Managua, for which the The case of the drug implantation and the “expert report” carried out by the police would be an identical set-up to the one that has been carried out on different political prisoners of the Ortega dictatorship.
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The Chinese Enoc is a sympathizer of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) who has sworn allegiance to the dictator Daniel Ortega, however on different occasions he has criticized and shown his rejection of Rosario Murillo, whom he accuses of being a “usurper” who he has stolen the Sandinista party. After his statements against the deputy dictator, the siege against him intensified until he was captured.
