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Attempted Murder Charges Against 'El Marro' Reinstated; They Were Dropped a Month Ago

By  6/17/2021 09:00:00 AM  23 comments

"Morogris" for Borderland Beat

Jose Antonio Yepez Ortiz ("El Marro", The Sledgehammer)

The Attorney General of the State of Guanajuato (FGE) informed, yesterday that José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias "El Marro", The Sledgehammer), the former leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL), was charged with attempted murder against public officials.

This legal decision came about a month after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) revealed that a federal judge absolved. As reported by Borderland Beat, AMLO demanded that the federal judge be reviewed by the Federal Judicial Council (CJF) but did not provide more information on the scope of the legal resolution.

El Marro was arrested last August and is currently an inmate at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 ("Altiplano"), Mexico's maximum-security prison. Although his murder charge was dropped last month, El Marro continued to face charges for organized crime involvement, kidnapping, oil theft, and drug trafficking.

El Marro was the leader of the CSRL, a criminal group based in Guanajuato whose main criminal activities include huachicol (oil theft) and narcomenudeo (drug dealing). Much of the violence occurring Guanajuato in recent years has been attributed to the turf war between the CSRL and the rival Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Borderland Beat reported last February that El Marro was segregated from the rest of the prison population and had been complaining of ill treatment. A judge granted him a motion and ordered prison authorities to ensure El Marro was treated appropriately. 

Since 2018, Guanajuato has been the most violent state in Mexico, largely as a result of the territorial dispute between the CJNG and CSRL. Last year, Guanajuato closed the year with 4,490 murders, of which 92 percent had some connection with organized crime, according to local authorities.

Sources: La Jornada; El Siglo de Durango; Borderland Beat archives

23 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 9:33 AM

    Is it true this guy was a Zeta in the past?

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    1. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 4:34 PM

      Yes. He was a high ranking Zeta before going independent. After CDN was formed and ZVE and all the other Zetas cells claimed cartel, he came out with CSRL .. the name wasn't out there until after the CJNG war started but he was a zeta originally. That's why he was so difficult for CJNG. He had righteous skletcha, Old Zeta schooling although not an original member obviously. He worked his way up as he made all the right connections and he fortalized GTO when Zetas split up. Probbaly figured why be greedy, fuck expanding, I got everything here and had all the right ppl in his pockets. He made so much fucking money for years. Ridiculous amounts of money. In alwger they found it said he made Billionaire amounts of money. He wasn't just some local gas seller, selling a car load. He was selling his own gas in his own gasoline stations legitimately with his stolen gas. He monopolized the gas trade in GTO essentially..and he sold tanks and tanks (trucker tanks ) to US and other states. This man probbaly pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars after paying his bribes.

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    2. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 5:19 PM

      Low level associate. You see him cry like a punk biatch. He has no heart to be Zeta. I'm impressed he held out so long again Jalisco.

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    3. castillodennis333June 17, 2021 at 11:46 PM

      U berry tuff

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    4. AnonymousJune 18, 2021 at 1:08 AM

      MARRO WAS DIFFICULT FOR CJNG??? Really??? EVER SINCE JALISCOS DECLARED THE WAR ON HIM IT WAS A DOWNHILL SPIRAL FOR CSRDL ORGANIZATION, NOT ONCE DID THEY HAVE THE UPPER HAND AGAINST CJNG IN THEYRE OWN TERRITORY, MARROS STRUCTURE WAS WEAKEN FINANCIALLY AND MORALLY, SO MUCH SO, HE ENDED UP ON VIDEO CRYING BASICALLY BEGGING FOR HELP TO ANYONE WHO WAS WILLING TO PROVIDE IT LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL BUT MARRO WAS DIFFICULT??????? GTFOH, IT LITERALLY HURTS EGOS KNOWING NOBODY CAN STOP C.J.N.G

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    5. AnonymousJune 19, 2021 at 8:41 AM

      cjng should be Cartel michoacan nueva generacion am i right

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  2. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 9:53 AM

    Saludos pal señorón el fresa 🍓 que tiene la plaza Nayarit tranquila.

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  3. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 10:09 AM

    Damn MARRO is better OFF in PRISON.
    CJNG would eat him alive if he comes back OUT..

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    1. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 4:01 PM

      He would go at them anyway. He's a strait
      up gangster.

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    2. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 5:58 PM

      They had almost 4 years to "eat him alive" cjng needed government help. They still don't 100% run guanajuato because it's still just as violent

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    3. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 7:02 PM

      In 4 years CJNG nearly wiped out marros whole structure, killing plaza bosses, collaborators and everything in between, destroying marros group financial and morally.
      But you idiots will say other wise.

      Now the remnants of CSRDL are living in hiding literally.

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    4. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 7:51 PM

      4:01 he is a straight up cry baby! 😢😢😢😢

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    5. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 8:09 PM

      Got it 👍 so cjng are just scum that kill innocent people because someones gotta be responsible for the nonstop violence in gto it can't be csrdl because they're hiding

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    6. AnonymousJune 18, 2021 at 12:59 AM

      Marros so gangster he was on video crying like a typical sinaloense


      @8:09
      Got it your retarded.

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    7. AnonymousJune 18, 2021 at 1:02 AM

      8:09
      Or it could be CSRDL tryna heat up the plaza. Ever thought of that? Man I swear anti-cjng cheerleaders dont put thought into anything �� damn brainless fucks.

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    8. AnonymousJune 18, 2021 at 3:56 AM

      @7:02 u talk out of your ass, CJNG are the ones hiding in GTO. No entienden por más que se les diga.

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  4. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 3:16 PM

    Nomas sin llorar marro guango

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  5. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 6:45 PM

    The funny thing is el marro es de Michoacán too

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    1. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 7:11 PM

      why funny?

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    2. AnonymousJune 18, 2021 at 12:57 AM

      Marros fat and dark and a crybaby witch probably indicates hes sinaloense

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  6. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 6:57 PM

    IF LOOKS WOULD TALK MARRO WOULD PROBABLY SAY SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF "DONDE ESTA EL APOYO QUE ME IVA LLEGAR DE SINALOA" JAJAJAJAJAJA

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    1. AnonymousJune 18, 2021 at 3:08 AM

      "los señores de la frontera"

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  7. AnonymousJune 17, 2021 at 11:00 PM

    Look at the picture on the right. Now, tell me does he look guilty of anything. Other than looking like an idiot.

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