Crime Boss Thought To Kill 6 Kids And 3 Women Arrested

Story By: Juan Fenandez Mayes,  Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency:  Newsflash

A crime boss from a notorious Mexican cartel suspected of being behind the LeBaron and Langford families massacre where six children and three women were killed has been arrested.

In the massacre, gunmen opened fire on a three-car convoy en route to a wedding carrying residents of the isolated La Mora community of American Mexican Mormons killing nine people, all of whom held dual US–Mexican citizenship.

It was reported at the time that a drug cartel was behind it, and that it was believed to have been a case of mistaken identity.

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Suspected crime boss Jesus Parra Renteria was arrested in the municipality of Casas Grandes, located in the Mexican state of Chihuahua on 4th June of this year.

According to local reports, he was detained by authorities following a gunfight, however, the circumstances involving the firefight are unclear.

He is reported to be the head of ‘La Linea’ (The Line) which is the armed criminal gang that acts as enforcers for the Juarez Cartel, and which has been linked with some of the most notorious massacres in Juarez.

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The Assistant Attorney General’s Office Specialised in Investigation of Organised Crime (SEIDO) from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) “obtained an order to hold Jesus ‘P’ in custody, for his probable responsibility in the offence of organised crime with the aim of committing crimes against health” according to a report by the FGR.

An investigation was started on him for his “probably responsibility in the crime of murder in the incidents that occurred in the Bavispe, Sonora community in which nine people lost their lives and another seven were injured” on 5th November 2019.

The incident claimed the lives of six children and three women and occurred at the La Mora community, consisting mostly of independent Mormons, in the Mexican state of Sonora on 4th November 2019.

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The victims, all of whom had US-Mexican citizenship, included two eight-month-old twins, their 10-year-old and 12-year-old siblings and their mum who were found burned in a car.

The families were reported to be en route to a wedding in a three-car convoy when they were ambushed and gunned down. It is unclear if they were mistaken for other people or if they were targeted.

General Homero Mendoza from the Ministry of National Defence told local press La Linea “is the one that is attributed for carrying out these aggressions to the LeBaron and Langford families” after his initial examinations on the incident.

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The information obtained during the investigations of alleged murders was later used to charge the suspect for the ones against him after allegedly “amassing and trafficking weapons” and belonging to a criminal organisation. It is unclear if they are being treated as two separate cases by the court.

Parra Renteria appeared before a court where a judge gave prosecutors four months to finish their case against him on 17th September.

He has been placed in preventative custody at the Social Reinsertion Centre number 5 in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.

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