Edgar Jimenez Lugo is a monster. When he was first captured by Mexican authorities at the age of 14, he looked like a harmless schoolboy. But this teen is a cold-blooded killer. The notorious “El Ponchis” is a U.S. citizen by birth. But this baby-faced killer started working for the South Pacific Cartel at age 11. That was when he made his first kill.
Soldiers arrested the mop-haired Jimenez, then age 14, on Dec. 2, 2010, as he tried to board a flight from Morelos state to Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. He later confessed to working for the South Pacific Cartel, a crime group based out of Acapulco and active in Cuernavaca, a resort in Morelos southwest of Mexico City.
In a blood-chilling confession hours after his arrest, Jimenez admitted that he belonged to the drug-trafficking group and was involved in the killing of four men.
Asked how he murdered them, Jimenez responded: “I cut off their heads.” A gruesome video of the beheadings later surfaced on the Internet. The bodies were found under a bridge.
Edgar Jimenez Lugo lived his life on the streets. His parents were Mexican immigrants. His story caused many people to feel sympathy for him. But his crimes are revolting. At one point, he claimed he was kidnapped and forced to work for the cartel. Regardless, Lugo was released from the Mexican detention center and sent to San Antonio, where he is in a “support center” and being treated as a “boarder.” The prospect of such a dangerous youth being freed in in the near future is terrifying. He is not being held in the U.S. for any crime. How long he will be detained in the U.S. remains isn’t known.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Mexico City released a statement. “We are aware of Edgar Lugo’s upcoming release by the Mexican authorities following completion of his sentence,” the statement said. “We are closely coordinating with our Mexican counterparts and appropriate authorities in the United States regarding Edgar Lugo’s release. Due to privacy considerations, we do not publicly discuss details of matters involving US citizens.”
Lugo is living in a rehabilitation center in San Antonio temporarily. But how does one reform a paid hit man, a killer who decapitated people for $200 per week? This young man is already a career criminal. Because of his troubled youth, many have felt that he deserved lenient punishment. But given his atrocious crimes, freeing him will likely be a deadly mistake.
From DC Clothesline
