Cartel sicario El Ponchis is sent to the U.S. after serving three years in a Mexican prison for beheading four men when he was only 14 years old
Edgar Jimenez Lugo, 17, aka El Ponchis, is back in the U.S. where he was born. He was arrested in December 2010 by Mexican authorities and convicted of beheading four men and kidnapping three others as a 14-year-old sicario (hit man) for the South Pacific Cartel. At the time of his arrest, Lugo admitted to participating in kidnappings, tortures and beheadings as ordered by the cartel.
The 14-year-old had been accused of abduction, torture by beheading, transportation of drugs, possession of military use-only weapons, and military use of weapons during his membership in the South Pacific Cartel. El Ponchis was later linked to 300 killings in Morelos, Mexico where his job was to behead and mutilate his victims. He has just been released from prions because his three-year sentence had expired. Under Mexican law, three years was the maximum sentence Lugo could have received for someone his age.
El Ponchis was just one of a growing number of child sicarios who are paid by the cartels to carry out kidnappings and murders.
Although he was born in the U.S., Lugo spent much of his young life in Mexico where his sisters and an aunt live. His mother now lives in San Diego, but he was sent to San Antonio where an aunt said she would be responsible for him. Lugo is supposed to enter a rehabilitation center where it is hoped he will be cured of his criminal ways.
Welcome back to the United States El Ponchis. And have a Happy Thanksgiving too.
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