Alleged hit man arrested in killing of Chihuahua assistant attorney general - El Paso Times
Mexican federal police have arrested a suspected Juárez drug cartel hit man in the murder of a Chihuahua assistant attorney general, police officials said Tuesday.
Cristian Rosado Mendoza, 23, was arrested and a 9 mm handgun was seized Monday after police stopped Rosado, who was driving a car with Texas license plates in a neighborhood near the Juárez airport.
Rosado, alias “El Cris,” is accused in the fatal shooting of assistant attorney general Sandra Ivonne Salas Garcia during an ambush in Juárez on June 30 that also killed one of Salas’ bodyguards and wounded another. Salas supervised internal affairs cases.
Rosado allegedly told investigators La Linea, as the Juárez drug cartel is known, ordered Salas’ death because she had become involved in cartel business in the Cereso prison in Juárez.
Police said Rosado, originally from the Mexico City area, has a criminal record for drug smuggling in the U.S. and was jailed on a robbery charge in the Cereso prison until being released two months ago.
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