From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 4, 2024, p. 8
Four people, identified as members of the Los Popocas gang, were sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping and organized crime.
These are Adolfo Popoca Rojas, Guadalupe de la Torre Tajonar, Lorely Estefani Méndez de la Torre and Dilan Gabriel Coba Morales.
In a statement, yesterday the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported that, through the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, they managed to get a district judge assigned to the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the state of Mexico to issue a sentence against the four people charged with the crimes of aggravated kidnapping and organized crime.
According to the investigation, in 2019 a person was kidnapped in Tlalnepantla de Baz, state of Mexico, by two armed individuals who demanded a ransom. The investigations allowed the identification of Adolfo Popoca, who from the Oriente Men’s Preventive Prison coordinated the negotiations; Guadalupe de la Torre and Lorely Méndez collected the ransom money, while Dilan Coba participated in the events
he explained.
It was reported that in recent days the judge handed down a sentence of 60 years in prison and a fine of 697,042 pesos for Guadalupe and Lorely, for the crimes of organized crime and aggravated kidnapping; For Adolfo Popoca the sentence was 50 years in prison and 675,920 pesos in fines for aggravated kidnapping, and for Dilan Coba it was 10 years in prison and 21,122.50 pesos for organized crime.
Lorely and Dilan are serving their sentence at the Nezahualcóyotl Penitentiary and Social Reintegration Center, Bordo de Xochiaca; Guadalupe de la Torre at the Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Social Reintegration Center, in Mexico City; while Adolfo Popoca at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation No. 12, CPS Guanajuato.
