The mother of Julio González, aCuban from Hialeah Gardens who was murdered a year and four months ago in a Miami Springs hotel by a drug trafficker from the Sinaloa cartel, asks for justice after his son's murderer was finally captured last week.
“He was an excellent son with me, very affectionate, special. “I have two children, but my special son was him”, said the lady without showing her face in statements to journalist Alexis Boentes forTelemundo 51.
“That day I thought I was going to die. When I saw that he was late and that I called him and he didn't answer me. "I knew in my heart that something was not right," the woman added, referring to November 29, 2022, the day her son wasshot dead at couples hotelAladdin, in Miami Springs, just one block from Miami International Airport.
Julio González, 46, worked at a casino and, according to his neighbors, often offered to protect packages to prevent someone from stealing them. However, no one knew thatGonzález helped the Sinaloa cartel send methamphetamine to Miami and that was the reason for his murder.
The Cuban had to waita shipment on November 16, 2022 of 11 poundsthat they would be delivered to his neighboring apartment and that he would go pick them up. However,The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) intercepted the package, preventing the drugs from reaching their destination.
Less than two weeks after that failed delivery, Julio González was murdered. The hitman arrived in Miami to execute himJimmy Sanchez on a flight from San Diego, California.
Sanchez flew to Miami International Airport, rented a car and drove to Hallandale Beach. That's where, according to police, he met a woman:Tsvia Kol.
Arrest warrant says Sanchez followed Kol from south Broward to hotel Aladdin to meet González in room 304.
Video showed Kol drove Gonzalez to the hotel in a Kia sedan, while Sanchez arrived at the hotel with a man identified only as “Torres.”
Around 11:23 p.m., police received a 911 call from Gonzalez in which he was heard saying, "Hotel Aladdin." When the operator asked him if he needed help, he simply replied “yes, urgent” before the communication was cut off.
Dispatchers returned the call and heard a struggle followed by the words “no, no, no” and the sound of a gunshot. According to the arrest warrant, Miami Springs police arrived at the hotel at 11:36 p.m. and could not discover anything out of the ordinary.
Around 9 a.m. The next day, the hotel manager went to room 304 and found González in the middle of a pool of blood.He had been shot twice in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said an interview with González's ex revealed that five days before the murder, the Cuban had posted a photo of “Sapir Kol,” later identified as Tsvia Kol, with the caption:“If something happens to me, it's her.”
Tsvia Kol, described in the arrest warrant as “a known high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel,” was arrested the morning after the murder, but only on federal drug trafficking charges.
Kol, 35, the ex-wife of Wilfredo Nunes Gallardo, another high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel, remains detained without bail and will be sentenced next month.
Arrest of the hitman
No arrests had been made in the murder of Julio González until Jimmy Sánchez, 36, of Spring Valley, California, was arrested last week.
Sánchez was captured by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers on the border between the United States and Mexico, as revealedLocal 10.
His arrest form indicates he was jailed in San Diego before being taken into custody in Miami-Dade County on April 11 on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
“If I speak to you as a mother, I would like justice to be done, but if I put myself in the place of the mother of the boy and the girl, that is another feeling, because I know that those mothers are going to suffer”concluded the mother of the murdered Cuban in a gesture of boundless compassion.
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