Cancun, Q.R. — A Cancun judge has sentenced an abductor to 100 years in prison. José Asterio Triano Castillo was found guilty of the forced disappearance of two Cancun construction workers back in 2022.
On Monday, he was ordered to spend 50 years in prison for each of the men he was found guilty of abducting. According to local officials, José Asterio Triano Castillo was part of a criminal group who forced workers at a Cancun Hotel Zone construction site to sell drugs on their behalf.
The two workers he is accused of abducting were last seen in his company in September of 2022 after leaving home to go to work. They were never heard from again.
Police say José Asterio Triano Castillo took them to a wooded area where “cries for help” were heard after they refused to sell narcotics. Their bodies have never been recovered. Neither of the missing men have been publicly named.
In a statement, local police reported that “the crime for which the accused was convicted occurred on September 15, 2022 in Cancun. José Asterio Triano Castillo was a member of a criminal group that operated in the construction area of a lodging center located in the hotel zone which was dedicated to the sale and distribution of narcotics among the workers of the place.
“The two victims, who worked on the construction site, were systematically forced to buy drugs from the criminal group, of which the now-convicted man was a member.
“On September 14, 2022, the victims left their homes to go to work. When they did not return and all contact with them was lost, a search and investigation began.
“The suspect was one of the last people to have contact with the victims and participated in their abduction by taking them, along with other individuals, to a wooded area near the lagoon from where cries for help were heard.
“The motive for this action stemmed from the victims’ refusal to buy drugs; the whereabouts of the victims remain unknown.”
José Asterio Triano Castillo was charged and handed down an exemplary sentence of 100 years in prison, 50 for each of the victims, in addition to a fine of 1,731,960 pesos and the amount of material damages of 864,350 pesos for each victim.
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