Leoncio Morán, Manslaughter Offender

by Jesús TREJO MONTELON

•Chapula denounces that the mayor and former gubernatorial candidate ran over Jesús Sepúlveda Virgen with a pickup truck in 1994 •He never compensated the relatives •The preliminary inquiry was sent to court; an arrest warrant was issued but never executed

The mayor of Colima and former PAN and ADC candidate for governor, Leoncio Morán Sánchez, was the alleged perpetrator of the crime of manslaughter in 1994, having taken the life, with a vehicle he was driving, of Jesús Sepúlveda Virgen, 55 years old, a gardener by trade, who was riding a bicycle, in an accident that occurred in the city of Villa de Álvarez. According to official documents, criminal judge Elsa Isabel González Ramírez issued the corresponding arrest warrant against Leoncio Morán, which was never executed. It should be noted that the entire investigation took place while Carlos de la Madrid Virgen was governor, and Morán’s lawyer was a nephew of the former governor, Mario de la Madrid Andrade, currently the legal director of the Colima city council. Likewise, it is observed that the arrest warrant was issued in the first days of former governor Fernando Moreno Peña’s term, during which the crime prescribed. The above was revealed to Diario de Colima by PRI councilman and lawyer Roberto Chapula de la Mora, who explained that on April 5, 1994, Leoncio Morán was traveling in a Nissan pickup truck, model pickup, license plates FC-08244, owned by Corporación Locho, S.A. de C.V., along the avenue leading to the Villa de Álvarez-Minatitlán highway when, upon reaching the intersection with Hacienda La Capacha street, he struck Jesús Sepúlveda in the head with the right door mirror of the truck, while Sepúlveda was riding his bicycle. Chapula presented documents issued by the State Attorney General’s Office, the criminal court of Villa de Álvarez, and the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), copies of which he handed to Diario de Colima, stating that as a result of the blow, Jesús Sepúlveda was injured and was urgently transported by a Red Cross ambulance to the IMSS clinic in this city and later to an IMSS hospital in Guadalajara, Jalisco. On the same date of the accident, Dr. Ramón Velázquez Magaña, from the IMSS in this city, reported to the public prosecutor that the run-over Sepúlveda Virgen had cranial trauma with a blunt wound in the left temporal region 5 centimeters long “with a foreign body inside” and multiple bruises in various parts of the body. Meanwhile, Leoncio Morán was placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor of Villa de Álvarez, who set bail of ten thousand pesos so that he could obtain provisional release under bond, since by law he had the right to it. The informant said that later, on April 16, 1994, Jesús Sepúlveda Virgen died at the Centro Médico de Occidente (IMSS) in Guadalajara as a result of the head injuries he suffered when run over by Morán Sánchez. Chapula presented copies of documents from the Jalisco State Attorney General’s Office, including the report from the Centro Médico de Occidente, regarding the admission of the injured Sepúlveda Virgen to said hospital and the removal of his corpse, as he did not survive the contusions received when run over by Morán’s truck. He stated that, as a consequence, preliminary inquiry 112/94 was opened before the Public Prosecutor of Villa de Álvarez against Leoncio Morán, “but unfortunately there was a lot of impunity in this preliminary inquiry.” He noted that on October 20, 1997, during the governorship of Carlos de la Madrid, ten days before the end of his administration, the inquiry was sent to court, and that “on November 11, 1997, the arrest warrant was issued and on November 19 of the same year it was communicated to the Attorney General’s Office for execution,” already in the term of Moreno Peña, who had taken office on November 1 of that year. Chapula assured that “the arrest warrant issued by the criminal judge was never executed, which demonstrates unprecedented impunity and the regrettable protection enjoyed by Leoncio Morán to avoid compensating for the damage he caused.” Councilman Chapula de la Mora said that although the family of the deceased made the corresponding efforts, “to date not a single five-peso coin has been given to cover funeral expenses or to compensate the relatives” by the mayor of Colima and former PAN candidate for governor. He reiterated that the serious thing about all this is the impunity enjoyed by Leoncio Morán. “Here are the documents, here is criminal case 354/97 of the Villa de Álvarez court. That warrant was never executed, to the point that it has now legally prescribed.” Chapula stated that with this public complaint, his only purpose is to inform Colima society about the kind of person who aspired to govern the state, “when Leoncio Morán himself knows that the mother of criminal behavior is impunity.” He stated that when this (a manslaughter in an accident) happens to a taxi driver or anyone else, they spend years in court trying to resolve the matter, “but since Leoncio was well connected with his lawyer, he just ran the law through the triumphal arch.” “It is necessary for people to know who Leoncio Morán is, because he shows one face to society but deep down he is another person who carries the very devil inside,” Chapula said. He clarified that if he did not make this complaint public during the recent extraordinary electoral process, “it was precisely so as not to dirty the civic celebration that took place on April 10, and although Leoncio did act with perversity against Silverio Cavazos and all Colimans, thanks to the civility of the PRI members, people were able to realize that Silverio Cavazos represents a clean man, hardworking, with a will to serve and with experience to contribute to the social and economic development of Colima.” He added: “I remember that the media reported that during Leoncio Morán’s campaign a woman approached him in Manzanillo to complain that her injuries from an accident were not being addressed, and the candidate did not respond to her, but how could he respond, when he himself had the protection of the state to avoid answering for what he did?” Roberto Chapula said that while all people who drive a vehicle are exposed to being involved in such an incident, the serious thing was the impunity and protection enjoyed by Leoncio “just for being a wealthy person, because if it had been a man without economic resources, most likely he would still be facing this process today. And even being wealthy, he did not compensate the relatives.” He emphasized that this act of impunity undoubtedly offends Colima society, since “thanks to the influence of a rich man like Leoncio Morán, an entire family was left without support, as Morán Sánchez refused at all times to give a single five-peso coin to the relatives of Jesús Sepúlveda.” He concluded: “Chapula does not make up stories, Chapula speaks the truth and with documents in hand. Leoncio Morán imprudently killed a person and enjoyed impunity to avoid taking responsibility for the damages, when everyone knows he has the economic resources to have done so. “In any state governed by the rule of law, what is asserted must be proven, and here it is proven with the corresponding documents. In this matter, impunity took the place of justice,” he concluded.

and that’s the asshole they wanted to govern us… off to jail for impunity!!

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