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Judi Lynn

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Sun May 23, 2021, 01:24 AM May 2021

The Criminal History of 'El Paulino', One of the Most-Wanted Criminals of Baja California Sur

By MX 5/22/2021 03:00:00 PM



Paulino de Jesús Lucero Ortiz, alias "El
Paulino", was a high-ranking member of
the Beltran Leyva Cartel in La Paz, Baja
California. He gained notoriety in
November 2014 following a shootout
with the Damaso Special Forces of the
Sinaloa Cartel.

Beltrán Leyva Cartel member Paulino de Jesús Lucero Ortiz, alias "El Paulino", will serve a long sentence for the August 2019 kidnapping and murder of Jesús Salvador Sánchez Mendoza, sergeant of the La Paz Municipal Police force. Baja California state authorities confirmed that the offender operated south of La Paz, in El Triunfo and San Antonio communities.

On October 12, 2019, the alleged offender was arrested in Loreto, north of Baja California Sur, although it was until the 18th of the same month that authorities was able to formally charge him and keep him behind bars despite the motions he issued for an early release.

"Based on investigations, it was determined that, the defendant [El Paulino] arrived at the home of the victim [Jesus Salvador Sanchez Mendoza] along with other people and forced him into a vehicle. On September 1, 2019 ... near El Triunfo, the lifeless body of the victim was located," the report said.

Investigators confirmed that the police chief was kidnapped along with a businessman known as "El Martincillo". Both were brutally beaten and tortured before they were killed. When they were found dead, their hands were tied up and they had coup de grace wounds on their skulls.

More:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/05/the-criminal-history-of-el-paulino-one.html

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