The New Mexico Magistrate Judge and his wife are arrested after they are allegedly harboring members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they reportedly have. The judge resigned from his position last week after immigrants and customs enforcement officers arrested a Venezuelan man who was said to be living in his property.
ICE law enforcement officials recently resigned Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife Nancy at their home in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Thursday. ICE personnel executed search warrants and probable cause warrants and detained them, FOX 14 El Paso It has been reported. Joel Cano is currently accused of tampering with evidence, and his wife is being charged with conspiracy to tamper with, the report says.
The Cano couple was booked at Donna County Detention Center from 6:30am between 7 p..m. Thursday, Albuquerque Journal It has been reported. They are now restrained and unconfined. Before being elected to the position of Magistrate Judge in 2010, Joel Cano served at the Las Cruces Police Station for nearly 23 years.
Joel Cano resigned from his position as a magistrate judge in Donna Ana County, New Mexico, and brought 23-year-old Christa Ortega Lopez, a Venezuelan immigrant who illegally entered the United States in December 2023 and is suspected of being a member of the Tren de Aragua gang.
Federal prosecutors in the District of New Mexico claim Ortega Lopez illegally possesses a firearm and has ties to hyper-violent Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump and the US State Department declared the gangs were foreign terrorist organizations.
Police arrested Orgega Lopez while running a search warrant at his home in Donana County, New Mexico on February 28th. It has been reported this week. The report follows a detention hearing in which prosecutors claim that illegal foreigners are at risk of flight and are members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
It has been revealed that Venezuelan national Ortega Lopez illegally entered the United States on Texas Eagle Pass during the peak of the Biden border crisis in December 2023, and that he was released three days later, causing him to enter the United States illegally on Texas Eagle Pass.
A social media post obtained by the US Lawyer’s Office in the New Mexico area showed Ortega Lopez and other illegal aliens at the shooting range. They appeared to be carrying multiple firearms and a large number of handguns and rifle ammunition. In one image, the man holds an AR-15 style rifle in one hand and a semi-automatic pistol in the other. The video showed Venezuelan immigrants in possession of another AR-15 equipped with a suppressor. He fired the rifle until it was empty, then reloaded it in a new magazine, and he continued to fire it, prosecutors said.
Photos and videos show Ortega Lopez on display with a gangster tattoo from Tren de Aragua. The US government recently declared the violent gang a cross-border crime organization.
Investigators found additional firearms at a nearby home owned by Nancy Cano’s daughter. Ortega Lopez was seen owning some of these firearms.
On Tuesday, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Cano would never hold a law office in New Mexico again, Fox14 said. A local Fox News/CBS affiliate was on the scene after the couple was arrested and handcuffed.
Ortega Lopez remains in prison before the detention hearing. He is scheduled to appear in New Mexico District Court on April 30th.
It is not clear whether Judge Kano or his wife Nancy will be accused of having illegal aliens or providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations.
Bob Price He is an associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist for Fox 26 Houston What is your point? Sunday morning talk show. He also serves as president Blue Wonder Gun Care Products.
