translated from Spanish: “Do Lupe” downs, CJNG’s alleged lieutenant

A death certificate issued by health authorities on Sunday in the municipality of Tuxpan, Jalisco, gives account of the death of José Guadalupe Rodríguez Castillo, alias “El 15” or “Don Lupe”, alleged lieutenant of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel in southern Jalisco and allegedly responsible for the disappearance of three Italian citizens that occurred in January 2018 in the municipality of Tecalitlán.
According to the document, the death occurred on August 28 at 12:05 a.m. and although the causes were injured in the abdomen caused by an explosive device, the circumstances and where it happened are ignored.
However, federal sources indicated to EL UNIVERSAL that The death of Rodríguez Castillo would have occurred when a grenade exploded after a confrontation in the mountainous area of the municipality of Pihuamo, in Jalisco; the report indicates that he was transferred in an ambulance guarded by a commando to a hospital in Ciudad Guzmán, where he would have died.
The armed men escorting the alleged kingpin then took the body out of the hospital and transferred it to a farm in the center of the municipality of Tuxpan, where the death certificate was made on Sunday.
Although the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office has not reported this case, it is clear in the health authority’s document that the investigation folder 364/2020 was opened.
At the end of July 2018 Rodríguez Castillo was arrested in Zapopan by elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency of the Attorney General’s Office, then commanded by the current Secretary of Public Security of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, and although on that occasion he was questioned about the whereabouts of Italian citizens Raffaele Russo, Antonio Russo and Vincenzo Cimmino, he denied having participated in the events.
“Don Lupe” was only linked to proceedings for carrying firearms and in May 2019 was released by a federal judge.
However, during the hearings of the trial that follows against four elements of the Tecalitlán police accused for participating in the disappearance of the three Italians by handing them over to a supposed lieutenant of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel known as “Don Angel”, the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office has indicated that the PGR (now the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic), has various evidence of Rodriguez Castillo’s involvement in this case.
Thus, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has sought to include as evidence conversations extracted by the federal dependence on some cell phones of suspected criminals in which Rodríguez Castillo is credited with authorship of the disappearance of the Italians, in addition to the fingerprints found in one of the vans that the foreigners manned and that was located abandoned in Michoacán.

Original source in Spanish