The PAN Councilor of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Denisse Ahumada-Martínez said that she was forced under death threats to transport drugs to the United States by drug traffickers who operate in that state. On June 10, the PAN Councilor after she tried to cross into Texas through the Falfurrias entrance, boarded a vehicle with 42 kg of cocaine.
Denisse Ahumada-Martinez acknowledged that it was not the first time she had crossed into the United States with cocaine, but “she never admitted that she was transporting drugs, that is a lie,” said her lawyer Samuel Reyes. There are violent individuals behind drug trafficking who threatened her presumably, they are linked to drug trafficking, a cartel she does not know who these people are, but they threatened her with firearms, they said that they would kill her and her two daughters if she didn’t do exactly what they told her,” she explained.
They told her: you are going to move this vehicle, and she moved the vehicle and did not know what was inside Approximately thirty days later, they asked her to move another vehicle, again, and if she did not, they would kill her She moved the vehicle and they stopped her at the Fallfurrias checkpoint, where they found cocaine,” he said. On June 15, a federal court dismissed prosecution of Denisse Ahumada-Martinez considering that the government failed to establish that “the defendant committed the crime charged,” as stated in the judicial resolution.
The lawyer of the PAN Councilor claimed that the police made a careless complaint when he claimed that his client had admitted to deliberately transporting drugs.Denisse Ahumada-Martínez awaits a trial at the state level. Her lawyer hopes “reasonable” bond will be set for her to be released and start an asylum application, with immigration lawyers. I think, under her circumstances, she qualifies for asylum,” he said.
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