Man convicted in U.S. consulate slayings gets 10 life sentences
El Paso -- A Barrio Azteca leader who was found guilty of ordering the shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Juárez four years ago received 10 life sentences Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, who presided over the trial of Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, also ordered that Gallegos pay nearly $1 million in restitution to relatives of the victims and forfeit $785,500, the amount of property officials estimated was involved in money laundering.
A jury in February found Gallegos guilty of 11 counts, ranging from conspiring to kill persons in a foreign country to conspiring to import heroin, cocaine and marijuana into the United States. Gallegos pleaded not guilty.
Gallegos was accused of ordering the March 2010 slayings of Arthur Redelfs, an El Paso County detention officer; his wife Lesley Enriquez Redelfs, who was four months pregnant; and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, who was married to Hilda Salcido, who worked with Lesley Redelfs in the U.S. Consulate in Juárez.
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