Cancun, Q.R. — Three people have each been sentenced to 22 years for extorting a Cancun business. All three were hired on as construction workers who sold drugs to other on-site workers and extorted their boss.
Police say Salatiel Álvarez García, Blanca Estela Hernández Martínez and Gabriel Alexander Garciliano Jiménez were found guilty of extortion. All three were found guilty of extorting the two people who hired them as construction workers.
“The events for which they were sentenced occurred in January 2023 when Salatiel Álvarez García was hired by the victims as an employee at a construction site located in Supermanzana 5.
“Later, the subject brought Blanca Estela Hernández Martínez and Gabriel Alexander Garciliano Jiménez to join the construction site and sell drugs to the workers,” police reported.
“Days later, the now-convicted individuals entered the victims’ office and, threatening them with a firearm, forced them to pay 3,000 pesos as “protection money,” as well as to add Blanca Estela Hernández Martínez and Gabriel Alexander Garciliano Jiménez to the company payroll.”
Police said that “on at least two occasions, the victims handed over the amount demanded by the assailants.”
A complaint was filed and all three were arrested in February of 2023. On Friday, a Cancun judge handed down a sentence of 22 years in prison for each of them for the crime of extortion, in addition to imposing on each of them a fine of 155,610 pesos.
