In 2010 Mexican authorities arrested El Ponchis. The 12 year-old Mexican hitman was hired by the drug cartels to cut off the the heads and genitals of his victims. - Killer: El Ponchis (ABC)
Video was released of the 12 year-old hitman.
El Ponshis was sentenced to three years in prison.
The boy worked with his sisters!
This week El Ponchis was released from prison.
He will return to the United States.
ABC15 reported:
Mexican authorities set free a former teen cartel hit man on Tuesday and sent him back to the United States.
The release of Edgar Jimenez Lugo, a U.S. citizen known as El Ponchis or The Cloak, comes less than three years after a Mexican court found him guilty of torturing and beheading at least four people and kidnapping three others as an operative for the South Pacific Cartel.
The teenagers age 14 at the time and his on-camera description of the slayings, brought international attention to the case. Analysts said the dramatic example showed how Mexican drug gangs were increasingly recruiting youths.
On Tuesday, Mexican authorities said he had served his three-year sentence and had been sent back to the United States.
The teen, now 17, boarded a commercial flight from Mexico City to San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday morning, according to Jorge Messeguer, government secretary in Mexicos Morelos state.
Poster Comment:
I guess people in Texas are used to people like him coming across the border.