▲ In June 2018, Felipe Salgado Rodríguez was released by a Tamaulipas judge, who considered that there was not enough evidence against him.Photo The Day
Gustavo Castillo Garcia
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 22, 2024, p. 4
Personnel from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) re-arrested Felipe Salgado Rodríguez, The Brush, identified as one of those responsible for the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.
The arrest was made based on an order issued for organized crime, in the Las Vigas neighborhood, in Acapulco, Guerrero.
The arrest took place early Friday morning, during an operation led by elements of the Federal Ministerial Police, and he was placed at the disposal of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office at the FGR facilities in that city.
After being arrested in 2015, during the interrogations he was subjected to The Brush either The Stubborn One, identified as a member of a group of hitmen serving United Warriors, He admitted to the then Attorney General’s Office that he had killed more than 10 students from the Ayotzinapa normal school with gunshots in the early hours of September 27, 2014.
He was also one of the detainees who declared that they had taken a group of students who had been deprived of their liberty in the city of Iguala to the municipal dump in Cocula, and after their bodies had been incinerated, they put the remains in bags which they later threw into the Cocula River.
In June 2018, The Brush He was released by a federal judge based in Tamaulipas, in compliance with an amparo ruling, considering that there was not enough evidence in the file against him for organized crime, since for the justice administrator, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office did not prove the existence of United Warriors.
Likewise, the first collegiate court based in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, granted him freedom for the accusations against him for the disappearance of the students, considering that the statements made were obtained through acts of torture, a situation from which Gildardo López Astudillo also benefited. Cape Gil, regional leader of United Warriors, who was recaptured a few days ago.
