5 men arrested in Miguel Aleman are found guilty on weapons, drug charges
Five men previously arrested in Miguel Aleman, Tamps., with close to 1.5 tons of marijuana and weapons were found guilty by a Mexican judge on various charges.
The federal judge with the 8th District in Tamaulipas issued a guilty verdict against the five men on the charges of possession of marijuana, possession of explosive devices and possession of firearms and ammunition restricted for military use, according to information released from Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office — known as the PGR.
The men, who are being held at the Reynosa prison pending their sentencing hearing, were identified as Hector Guillermo Ramirez Rodriguez, Santos Ruiz Gomez, Roman Gracia Alvarez, Francisco Giovanni Garcia Hernandez and Juan Manuel Garcia Espino.
The trial of the men is not connected to the April 22 rampage where members of the Zetas shot at and burned several buildings in an attempt to take Miguel Aleman — which sits across the Rio Grande from Roma — from the Gulf Cartel.
The five men had been arrested in early April inside a house along Juan De La Barrera Street in the Niños Heroes neighborhood of Miguel Aleman.
There, authorities seized:
>> 119 bundles of marijuana weighing 2,904 pounds of marijuana
>> One .308mm assault rifle,
>> 11 AK-47 assault rifles
>> Five grenades
>> 3,082 ammunition rounds for AK-47
>> 98 ammunition magazines for AK-47
>> Two bulletproof vests
>> Six cartridge belts
>> Two inflatable rafts with a five person capacity
>> Five air pumps
>> A sand-colored Ford Taurus with Texas license plates
>> A Blue Pontiac Grand Prix with Texas license plates
