American-Born Mexican Drug Cartel Hitboy Sentenced For Murders & Kidnappings
In this Dec. 3, 2010 file photo, a journalist interviews Edgar "El Ponchis" Jimenez Lugo while under the custody of Mexican army soldiers in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico. A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced the 14-year-old U.S. citizen to three years in prison for organized crime, homicide, kidnapping, and drug and weapons possession. Authorities say the teenager confessed to working for the Beltran Leyva brothers' cartel and to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were hung from a bridge in the tourist town of Cuernavaca. (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra, File)
Edgar Jimenez Lugo, a San Diego-born teenager, was found guilty today by a juvenile court judge in Mexico of beheading four men on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel, as reported by The San Diego Union-Tribune. He is charged with four accounts of aggravated homicide and three accounts of kidnappings.
Lugo was arrested in December 2010 for the August 2010 killings that resulted in mutilated bodies strung from a highway bridge in Cuernavaca, a tourist destination just south of Mexico City.
He admits to the murders but claims he was forced to commit the crimes.
The fourteen-year-old will serve the maximum three year sentence for minors in juvenile detention.
