Inexperienced judges will handle high-profile cases

Newly hired, inexperienced federal judges will be responsible for granting authorities permission to intercept private communications, while others will handle high-profile organized crime cases, as they were assigned to the maximum-security prisons of Puente Grande and Altiplano .

A 24-HOUR review of the Judicial Administration Body ( OAJ ) assignment lists indicates that the National Justice Center Specialized in Control of Investigation Techniques, Arrest and Intervention of Communications is composed of 10 judges, of which four were elected in the last elections and the rest are those who already exercised those functions, but were not drawn to go to the election.

Of the four elected judges who will be part of this Center, the only one in the country and with jurisdiction in all states to order interventions of private communications and arraigos, none have experience in this matter, since they come from the FGR , local prosecutors' offices or the National Customs Agency .

Those assigned to that national center and who won the election are Christian Ricardo Franco Reyes , who was a local prosecution judge in Mexico City; Marcos Emilio García Alonso , who was the general inspector of the Tlaxcala Attorney General's Office and previously served as head of Commercial Verification and Public Works at Benito Juárez.

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Meanwhile, Irlanda Pacheco Torres , who was the Director of Evaluation at the National Customs Agency, emphasized that after one day in office, she requested leave, but the Senate refused to grant her one.

Finally, Jessica Romero Butrón , a former FGR official assigned to the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Environmental Crimes, will now serve as a judge specializing in the Intervention of Communications.

In the Puente Grande case, where they will have to deal with cases of organized crime, drug trafficking, and other federal crimes, there are six judges, three of whom were elected in June.

One of them is Adrián Guadalupe Aguirre , who served as a judicial officer in a Jalisco court, one of the lowest-ranking positions in the PJ (Party of the Party) and where a judicial career normally begins; he will rise from being an official to an organized crime judge thanks to the election.

His profile highlights that between 2018 and 2021 he served as Judicial Officer C of a federal court and then as a private litigator.

From verifying data, compiling and filing files, he rose to become a district judge and was assigned to the Puente Grande prison, where he will handle cases involving high-profile criminals, such as cartel leaders, fuel theft, and others.

Another is Daniela Bross Díaz , who before the election held the position of secretary assigned to the Third Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters in Jalisco.

The list is completed by a criminal judge from the Jalisco Judiciary, Juan José Rodríguez Velarde , who was a local Control judge and will now operate from the maximum security prison.

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They will work alongside three other judges assigned to Puente Grande who come from judicial careers and have already held that position for some time, but whose departure is not scheduled until 2027, when the second part of the judicial election takes place.

Meanwhile, at the National Center for Federal Criminal Justice in the State of Mexico , based in Almoloya de Juárez (Altiplano), María Jazmín Ambriz , Control Judge in Ecatepec, will move from local cases to the federal level.

Her partner will be Nancy Selena Hidalgo , who, unlike her colleagues, was already serving on the Trial Court of that federal prison, but won the election and was confirmed.