Barrio Azteca gunmen found guilty in consulate murders of 2010 sentenced to life in prison
EL PASO, Texas– According to the Department of Justice, Jose Guadalupe Diaz Diaz, 43, and Martin Artin Perez Marrufo, 54, were sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 24.
On Feb. 3. Diaz and Marrufo were found guilty of the March 2010 murders of a U.S. Consulate employee Leslie Enriquez, her husband, Arthur Redelfs, and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee, Jorge Salcido Ceniceros.
Both men are from Chihuahua, Mexico, and both men are members of the Barrio Azteca gang.
The defendants were sentenced to life in prison on ten counts and 240 months imprisonment on the remaining count. Three of the life-in-prison sentences will run consecutive to the sentences imposed on all other counts. Both defendants were sentenced to five years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution.
“The gunmen who viciously shot and killed Leslie Enriquez, Arthur Redelfs, and Jorge Salcido Ceniceros will now deservedly spend the rest of their lives in prison,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
Evidence in the 13-day trial showed that the three victims were leaving a children's birthday party in Juarez at the time of the shooting. The three were targeted because they were mistaken for rival gang members. Diaz shot and killed Enriquez and Redelfs. Marrufo shot and killed Ceniceros.
The jury found Diaz and Marrufo guilty of conspiracy to commit racketeering, narcotics trafficking, narcotics importation, money laundering, and murder in a foreign country; three counts of murder in aid of racketeering; and three counts of murder resulting from the use and carrying of firearms during and in relation to drug trafficking.
