The powerful narco of the Strait ‘El Pantoja’ escapes prison in a penitentiary permit | Spain

Jesús Heredia, El Pantoja, He learned everything that needs to be known from the Narco business to the ABDELLAH EL HAJ SADEK EL MENBRI, The Messi del Hachís. Those valuable knowledge – which led him to be one of the most powerful of the Strait of Gibraltar – also included becoming an elusive capo, accustomed to escape as soon as the occasion was presented. And that was the moment he had to appreciate on March 21, when he did not appear back from a prison permit in the Castellón prison to fulfill one of the drug trafficking sentences that accumulate. The seventh section of the Provincial Court of Cádiz in Algeciras, which had to judge it in May in a new cause for which they ask for more than eight years in prison, has already issued a search and capture car.

Heredia, 40, was Fulfilling a five -year penalty issued by the Algecireña section of the Provincial Court in October 2022 for directing a mafia that introduced hashish through the coast of the Campo de Gibraltar. « He lacked little to finish, » says a judicial source. That caused the narco to be enjoying the usual prison permits for prisoners that show good behavior. « He has abused the confidence of penitentiary institutions, because he was fulfilling, » explains a judicial source, in reference to that good behavior that the narco seemed to be having in the center of Castellón de la Plana.

To El Pantoja that pity I was fulfilling He came to him when he was in jail fulfilling another and that would have been his destiny if he had not escaped. On May 5, the trial was scheduled for the case of the fishing shipwreck Rúa Mar, in which six sailors died in waters of the Strait on January 23, 2020, after sinking with a cargo of hashish bales. The main investigated for this cause is shipowner Pedro Maza, but Heredia is one of those incurred as a drug facilitator. The Anti -Drug Prosecutor of the Gibraltar Campo asks for more than eight years in prison in this case.

However, his escape now complicates the celebration of the trial, which had to extend until May 16. If the search and capture car issued by the seventh section of the hearing does not become before that date of rebellion, the sessions would have to “suspend”, explains a judicial source known as the case. « The feeling is of frustration, after the rush that justice has been given so that it can be celebrated, » adds the same person.

It is not the first time that Heredia gives signs of his predilection to subtract from the action of justice. In June 2020, an important police deployment found him in an Italian pizzeria in Chiclana de la Fronterawhile he was with his family. The Pantoja had been in search and capture since March of that same year, after shortly before confinement he was scabulled of an important operation in which 36 members of his band fell. In those records in which Heredia did not appear, agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard gave a good account of the life of luxuries that the boss and his own developed in Algeciras, with ostentatious villas in which bills accumulated bills.

Heredia learned to be a elusive narco, along with the rest of the business, from Abdellah el Haj Sadek el Menbri, The Messi of hashish. The HAJ became famous for controlling a good part of the narrow drug business through the coast of Algeciras – in an influence distributed with the other kings of hashish, the brothers Castaña – and for starring in two controversial leaks. The first, in May 2017, occurred when agents pursued him within a police operation. The second, in March 2019, originated when the narco did not appear to sign in the courts, after a controversial agreement with the prosecutor of Algeciras for which he had been delivered long ago.

Few in the hashish worlds doubt that the HAJ is since then hidden in a luxurious northern northern Morocco who has become known for housing numerous drugs of hashish. Now, the suspicion is whether Heredia has followed her steps. « He has been in Morocco for several days, » says a source close to drug trafficking that says he knew about El Pantoja’s escape for a few days.