▲ The local legislature approved the resignation of Sara Bruna Quiñónez as head of the state prosecutor’s office after inconsistencies were found in the investigation into the death of Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda.Photo Cuartoscuro
Irene Sanchez
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 18, 2024, p. 4
Mazatlán, Sinaloa, One of the three men found murdered in the municipality of Elota, Sinaloa, yesterday morning is Martín García Corrales, for whom the United States Department of the Treasury (Office of Foreign Assets Control) was offering a reward of 4 million dollars.
García Corrales and his brother Leobardo are accused of being involved in the large-scale production of methamphetamine and fentanyl, and related to Ismael The May Zambada and Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.
Also yesterday, the plenary session of the local Congress unanimously approved, in an extraordinary session, the resignation of Sara Bruna Quiñónez Estrada as head of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) after inconsistencies were found in the investigation of the death of Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), a case also related to The May.
Yesterday, through an anonymous report, it was reported that three bodies with signs of torture and gunshot wounds were lying on a road leading to the town of El Aguaje, between the municipalities of Elota and Cosalá, so elements of Public Security, the National Guard and the Army arrived at the scene.
On November 14, 2022, according to U.S. reports, García Corrales agreed to purchase hundreds of automatic rifles and other weapons, including grenades, in a transaction paid for with fentanyl to be delivered to that country.
Resignation volunteer
At noon yesterday, the agreement of the Political Coordination Board chaired by Deputy Feliciano Castro Meléndrez was read, in which the resignation was accepted volunteer
Quiñónez Estrada, who announced his decision last Friday.
The 64th Legislature instructed that the General Coordination of the State Public Security Council be notified of this vacancy, in order to issue the call for registration of candidates to fill said position.
Miguel Calderón Quevedo, head of the State Security Council, said that five candidates will be chosen from among those interested, and then the list will be sent to Governor Rubén Rocha Moya so that he can rule out two of them, while the remaining candidates will be evaluated by local deputies.
Quiñónez Estrada submitted her resignation last Friday, one day after the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) revealed inconsistencies in the investigation file opened by the agency she headed regarding the murder of Cuén, committed on July 25.
The FGR took on the case after Ismael Zambada, detained in the United States, claimed that he was ambushed to be taken to that country, when he was waiting to meet with Rocha Moya and Cuén Ojeda at a ranch in Culiacán.
In his statement, made in a document released by his defense, the drug lord said that the former rector of the UAS was killed in the same place where he was kidnapped.
However, the FGE said that, according to investigations, Héctor Melesio Cuén had been killed at a gas station that night, when someone allegedly tried to steal his truck.
