Wife of CJNG’s “El Misa” Executed

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Proceso

                               "El Misa" of CJNG incarcerated at Celaya CERESO since 2016

Misael López Rodríguez's partner (or wife), "El Misa" ,  a head of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), arrested in 2016 and detained at the Celaya Social Readaption Center (Cereso), was murdered after she supposedly visited the inmate.

The events occurred around 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, Oct 11 when the woman was driving in a gray Nissan Rouge car, on Christmas Eve street in Las Flores neighborhood, in front of a gas station, and a group of subjects shot her repeatedly.  The victim died instantly from impacts on the head.    The vehicle was on the street, with the windshield shattered by bullets.

Initially, journalistic versions mentioned that she was a judge, but minutes later the State Judicial Branch sent a message to the media to clarify that this was not the case and that her staff was well, without "any atypical situation."

In that same message, the area of ​​Social Communication of the Judiciary indicated that "the woman who was killed (sic) was the wife of "Misael N" , held in Cereso de Celaya for the crime of homicide."

The part of the Attorney General's Office described that they found the victim in the driver's seat of the Nissan Rouge, with gunshot injuries to her head, several impacts on the car and long-gun caps in the place where she was left with the unit, but it did not confirm her identity.

In the vehicle, a vehicular card was found in the name of María Guadalupe Tabares, however, it was learned that the vehicle is registered in the name of another person.

Unofficially, Apro corroborated that the murdered woman was a couple with  Misael López Rodríguez, ''El Misa'', identified as a head of a cell of the CJNG, who until 2016 was in charge of drug distribution in the south of Guanajuato and also made criminal activities in Michoacán and Querétaro.   The subject then was considered a priority objective of the state authorities.

At the end of September 2016, Misael was captured in Aguascalientes, in an operation that had intelligence and tactical support from the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) and the Federal Police.