María Marta Castañeda Torres, Presidential former candidate Sandra Torres, is in provisional prison in the Mariscal Zavala Women’s Area, waiting for her first statement, after being arrested for her alleged involvement in the armed attack against prosecutor Miriam Reguero Sosa, in which two people died.
Due to their profile, the authorities have extreme security measures, taking into account that it lives with the leader of the 18th neighborhood, Aldo Dupie Ochoa Mejía, known as The Wolf.
Ludin Godínez, director of the Penitentiary System (SP), informed that in the area where Castañeda Torres is located there are personnel of the Special Forces of the National Civil Police (PNC) who monitor it 24 hours. Something similar performs an elite team of the SP, which is permanently assigned.
According to the official, so far Castañeda Torres has not received any visit in the Mariscal Zavala Women’s Area, where she was transferred by court order.
Castañeda Torres awaits the first statement hearing that the Judge of Greater Risk must make, Claudette Domínguez, who authorized two of his capture orders.
The PNC executed an operation in the parking lot of a shopping center in zone 6 of the municipality of Ciudad Vieja, Sacatepéquez, on August 27, where They captured Castañeda Torres.
How many capture orders were issued against María Marta Castañeda Torres?
About Castañeda Torres there are three capture orders. The first was issued on April 9 of this year, for the crimes of special cases of fraud, tax fraud and money laundering or other assets, by the Pluripersonal Court of First Criminal Instance of Jutiapa.
The second was signed by Domínguez, from the Court of greatest risk, for the crimes of illicit association, murder and murder in the attempt, by the attack against the prosecutor of the Public Ministry Miriam Reguero Sosa, which occurred on March 27 of last year.
The third was turned on May 28, for the crime of rebellion, and was also authorized by Domínguez.
What participation would Castañeda Torres have in the attack on the prosecutor?
Castañeda Torres would have coordinated the attack armed against the prosecutor in the 9th street and Avenida Reforma, zone 9 capital, a few meters from the General Hospital of Social Security Diseases. Carlos Humberto González, 55, security agent, and Miriam Sosa, 65, mother of the prosecutor, died there.
The attack was executed by a group of men who wore uniforms similar to those of the PNC and fled on motorcycles.
The investigations reveal that Castañeda Torres would have acted on the orders of his cohabitant, Aldo Dupie Ochoa Mejía, aka The Wolfringleader of the neighborhood wheel 18.