A woman wanted in connection with several brutal gang-related murders in Mexico was recently arrested in the United States.
On February 15th, with the help of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force, El Paso Police Gang Unit, County Sheriff’s Drug Enforcement Administration, and Border Patrol agents, agents achieved a victory in apprehending a Mexican fugitive. Michelle Angelica Pinedasometimes called La Cherie, at a motel in east El Paso, Texas. U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials believe Pineda, a Mexican national, crossed the U.S. border illegally as part of the crime. drug trafficking organization Committed by violent street gangs, Artist Asessinos, or Artist Assassins.
Inside the motel room where Pineda was arrested, investigators reportedly found weapons including guns, knives and machetes, as well as a stash of drugs including Xanax, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. Pineda was immediately transported across the border and placed in the custody of Chihuahua state authorities. She is currently being held in an unidentified Mexican prison.
Her leadership role within Artistas Asessino may sound bad enough, but this isn’t the worst accusation against her. She and her fellow gang members also allegedly murdered five people, dismembered her body, and dedicated parts of her body to a Mexican folk saint. Santa Muerte, or Holy Death.
“Pineda was known for extreme brutality, including dismembering bodies, removing hearts, and placing the hearts in front of Santa Muerte altars and statutes,” the FBI said in a statement. Stated.
“Today’s deportation is a critical recognition of the swift actions of our investigators who succeeded in taking a brutal assassin off the streets and returning her to Mexican law enforcement to stand trial for her crimes.” This highlights our partnership,” FBI El Paso Special Agent in Charge, said in a statement. Partially read by John Morales.
Pineda is suspected of involvement in 20 other dismemberment murders in Juarez, just across the border from El Paso. A Mexican newspaper El Gerardo de Juarezreported that her history of violence dates back to when she was just 13 years old, and described her as “a young woman who grew up surrounded by violence.”
Many Catholic leaders in the United States and Mexico have denounced Santa Muerte, a skeletal figure often associated with drug cartels, as “spiritually dangerous” at best and satanic at worst. . Prayers to Santa Muerte ‘should be completely avoided’ Bishop Michael Sis “This is a perversion of devotion to the saints,” the pastor of the Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, said in 2017.
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