The head of "Los Aztecas" was sentenced to 15 years in prison for burning his girlfriend's face with an iron

The District Attorney North Chihuahua In The State Of Chihuahua Sentenced 15 years in prison for José Ángel Cuellar González, one of the leaders of the gang "The Aztecs" for aggravated rape and domestic violence against her former partner, a 23-year-old woman.

"The investigation that the Sexual and Family Offenses Unit has developed indicates that the victim has suffered physical and psychological violence, because she was beaten and threatened with death with a firearm who fired twice, "the prosecutor's office reported.

The authorities have verified that the accused burned the face of his girlfriend with a hot iron, the He squeezed his back with syringes and also put a knife in his neck. He was accused of aggravated rape and domestic violence against your partner.

The charges against the accused occurred on February 15, 2017, "one reason the Attorney General opened the corresponding proceedings and thus managed to obtain sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of the man" .

The convict "was a priority objective of the Chihuahua Prosecutor's Office and with this sentence, he will have to answer for the badual badault that he has committed despite his sentimental partner.

Cuellar González was arrested on February 17, 2017 for a charge related to the drug trafficking, unlawful deprivation of liberty and badual abuse against his ex-wife.

A day earlier, the authorities had searched one of the alleged houses of Cuellar González in the Aztec colony in Ciudad Juárez, looking for the bodies of four people missing.

The history of the "Aztecs"

The gang allegedly trained in the El Paso prison system, Texas, in the mid-1980s and he began to spread to Mexico in 1996 before the deportation of Mexican criminals jailed in the United States.

US government estimates cited by Insight Crime – organization dedicated to the study of security issues – indicate that in 2011 the gang had about 3,500 members. Two years later, there were only 5,000 in the region of Ciudad Juárez. To these were added the 3,000 that had then been in the United States.

Data from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the gang too He has members in New Mexico, Mbadachusetts and Pennsylvania.