A judge from New Mexico filed his resignation last month after the immigration authorities arrested a suspect with alleged links with the Treen de Aragua in his home a raid from the end of February.
The federal agents of the Department of National Security had raided the former Judge of the County of Doña Ana, José “Joel” Cano Home on February 28 and arrested the national Venezuelan Christians of 23 years, the judicial documents reveal.
The authorities also confiscated four firearms from the residence of Cano’s daughter, which they carried out after obtaining search orders in response to the evidence of the social networks of the ties of Ortega-López with a Aragua train, the ruthless gang of prison.
Cano, a Democrat who served as a judge since 2011, did not mention the sentence in his renunciation letter, which occurs later on March 3.
“Working with each of you has a very rewarding experience for which I will continue to be eternally grateful,” Cano wrote in his renunciation letter obtained by the position. “All the best for everyone.
A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the Courts of New Mexico explained that the Supreme Court of the State and the Third Judicial District Court, where Cano was based, “did not receive its resignation until March 31.
The revelations about the alleged gangatily living in the Cano residence were made for the first time in judicial documents that sought to keep Ortega-López in detention. Since then, history has won traction in local media, including the Albuquerque Journal newspaper.
Ortega-López was interacting with Cano’s family recently about a year after helping the judge’s wife to install a glass and do other strange jobs for her.
In April of last year, he was expelled from his department in the step he shared with five others, which led Nancy Cano, the judge’s wife, to sacrifice him when he stayed in the “house” or his home at Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Duration of his stay, Ortega-López apparently joins to link with the judge’s daughter, April Cano, “who had a amount of long firearms” and let some of them cling to some of them, according to the court records.
Ortega-López, who illegally entered the US. In 2023, but was released from a Customs Center and the United States border patrol due to overcrowding, he admitted that he knew he was allowed to possess firearms due to his illegal immigrant condition.
He had climbed around a spike wire near Eagle Pass, Texas, and managed to illegally entertain the US, by court documents.
The authorities had received an Superga-Lope council and found images of him on social networks with tattoos, with “commonly associated” clothing and hand gestures with a Aragua train, claim of judicial presentations.
The prosecutors attached images of the tattoos of Ortega-López and other evidence in which they rely to accuse him of affiliation with the Aragua train.
“The defendant is a danger to the community because he is a member of the foreign terrorist organization designated by the United States, Train El Aragua and is regularly associated with other members,” they wrote in a presentation to stop it.
Ortega-López was arrested along with three other Venezuelan migrants as part of an operation carried out by national security research.
The publication could not contact Joel Cano to comment.
“The governor will appoint someone to fill the winner of the expiration of the four -year mandate not defeated from the judge who extends until the end of 2026,” he told the administrative office of the courts of New Mexico, he said to said a spokesman for the courts.
“The judges of the magistrate court are elective positions and will be on the ballot in 2026”.
Ortega-López is accused of being an illegal foreigner in possession of a firearm or ammunition. If he is convicted, he could face up to 15 years after bars, according to the Department of Justice.