"La Tuta" : Sentenced to 55 years for Kidnapping

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                      Servando Gómez, "La Tuta", sentenced to 55 years in prison for kidnapping

'El Profe', as he is also known, was a normalista teacher and created help centers for young drug addicts.  He later became a drug dealer and a cartel founder according to authorities.

The Attorney General of the state of Michoacán reported Monday that it obtained a sentence of 55 years in prison against Servando Gómez Martínez, alias 'La Tuta' or 'El Profe', founder of the Knights Templar cartel.

In addition, he said that he accredited "his full responsibility in the kidnapping of a businessman in the month of August 2011, in the city of Uruapan."

It should be recalled that on February 27, 2015, federal forces captured Servando Gómez in a poor neighborhood in the city of Morelia, accused of the crime of organized crime.

' La Tuta' was considered one of the most wanted criminals in the country, who even managed to infiltrate the highest levels of power in Michoacán.

The interim governor, Jesús Reyna García, was arrested for his alleged links to 'El Profe', but after four years in prison, he was released.

In July 2014, a video shows a conversation between the leader of the Knights Templar and Rodrigo Vallejo Mora, youngest son of the ex-governor of Michoacán, Fausto Vallejo Figueroa.

' La Tuta' was first a normalist teacher, then a farmer, he created help centers for young drug addicts and then a narcotics dealer, according to federal authorities.

Servando Gómez , was born in Arteaga, Michoacán, was the last leader of the non-extinct criminal group known as Knights Templar.

'El Profe' is being held in El Altiplano prison for organized crime and now the sentence for kidnapping a businessman in Uruapan will also be added.

The 49-year-old man was arrested on February 27, 2015, in Morelia, Michoacán, without a single shot being recorded and since then he has been held in the Altiplano prison, accused of organized crime and now the sentence for kidnapping.

In 2015, "La Tuta" was issued a formal prison sentence for the crimes of organized crime and crimes against health " in the form of collaborating to promote cocaine and marijuana traffic." That same year, the offender was notified of a new formal prison sentence for the crime of kidnapping.

This would be the first sentence against him, which will continue accumulating with others, for which the former criminal leader will spend the rest of his days in prison.

The sentence corresponds to one of the 17 preliminary inquiries and 10 circumstantial acts in which the Michoacan capo is related to crimes such as kidnapping, extortion, organized crime, money laundering and drug trafficking, among others.

Meanwhile, last year  Ana Patiño Lopez, wife of the former criminal leader of the Knights Templar, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison, for his responsibility in the crime of bribery. 

While in 2015 Servando Gómez Patiño, aka El Pelón, son of Servando Gómez Martínez, was sentenced to 27 years, eight months and three days in prison,  as responsible for the crimes of organized crime and possession of a firearm for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force.