By EFE
Jun 21, 2024, 07:35 AM EDT
Miami – A man from San Diego (California) and a woman from Miami (Florida), accused of the “execution-style” murder in 2022 of a man at the Aladdin hotel in this Florida city for drug matters, have ties to the cartel. Sinaloa (Mexico).
Jimmy Sánchez, 36, and Tsvia Kol, of the same age, face federal charges in connection with a murder that occurred in November 2022 at the aforementioned hotel for couples, to which the victim was lured.
Once there, the woman demanded that he reveal the whereabouts of a package of methamphetamine that she believed the victim had stolen, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Thursday.
The arrest warrant indicates that Sánchez flew to Miami on the night of the murder, rented a car and, after meeting with Kol, followed her to the Aladdin hotel where she had met the victim, Julio González, 46, who was found died with two gunshot wounds to the head the next day.
A detective with the Hialeah Police, neighboring Miami, told Miami-Dade County investigators that on November 16, 2022, approximately two weeks before the murder, authorities had intercepted a package containing eleven pounds of methamphetamine, destined for González’s apartment in Hialeah Gardens, reported the Local 10 News channel.
The Police then began to monitor González’s house and saw him “looking for the package that he never received.”
The woman was described in a Miami-Dade arrest warrant as “a known high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel with a history of international organized crime specializing in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering,” the outlet said.
Sánchez and Kol face charges of “conspiracy to possess drugs with the intent to distribute, discharge a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and causing a death in the course of the drug trafficking conspiracy,” according to the Department of Transportation. Justice.
If convicted, Sánchez and Kol could be sentenced to life in prison.
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