A Mexican woman known as “La Cherie”, the alleged assassin, was arrested last month in connection with multiple murders at a motel in El Paso, Texas.
The FBI announced in a press release that agents from the El Paso Field Office Street Gang Task Force and U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Michelle Angelica Pineda at a motel.
Pineda is a Mexican national wanted by the Mexican government for his involvement in five murders, as well as several others in Ciudad Juárez, a city in Mexico’s Chihuahua state just south of El Paso. There is.
The FBI said Pineda was known for extreme brutality, sometimes dissecting bodies and removing the hearts, which he then placed in front of altars or statues of Santa Muerte, or the Saint of the Dead.
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Michelle Angelica Pineda, aka “La Cherie,” was arrested in El Paso, Texas, and turned over to Mexican authorities on suspicion of involvement in multiple murders.
The shrine is reportedly worshiped by members of Mexican drug cartels, who reportedly pray for their protection. The shrine’s existence highlights the link between cross-border human smuggling and Mexican drug cartels.
Members of the task force, as well as members of the El Paso Police Department, El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, and U.S. Border Patrol, determined on February 15 that Pineda had entered the United States illegally and was conducting drug trafficking operations for a Mexican gang. I discovered that. ” Artistas Assessino” or “Assassin Artist”.
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The FBI El Paso Field Office Street Gang Task Force was involved in the arrest of Michelle Angelica Pineda on February 15 in El Paso, Texas. (St. Petersburg)
Early that morning, surgery was performed to take Pineda into custody in a motel room. There, investigators reportedly found several guns, machetes, fentanyl pills, powdered fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, Xanax and methamphetamine.
She was eventually arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), whose agents and FBI agents escorted Pineda to a port of entry and handed her over to the Chihuahua state police and Chihuahua state attorney general.
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“Today’s deportation recognizes the swift action of our investigators and the critical partnership that successfully removed a brutal assassin from the streets, returned him to the hands of Mexican law enforcement, and brought him to justice for his crimes. FBI El Paso Special Agent in Charge John Morales said. That’s what the person in charge at the time said. “To prevent people like Pineda from bringing violence and drugs into our lives and contaminating our communities, we must work together with our partners, including law enforcement, the private sector, and foreign law enforcement. is the most important.”
