EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A judge has sentenced a rapper calling himself Fat Flow to 33 years and four months in prison for the 2023 kidnapping of seven migrants in Juarez, Mexico.
Jesus Antonio M.M., aka Fat Flow, and Omar M.P. allegedly led a criminal clique riding two vehicles that on Nov. 18, 2023, cut off a share-ride driver carrying seven migrants to a stash house in Juarez.
The kidnappers ordered the migrants out of the share-ride, forced them to get into their vehicles and took them to a property where they held them for several days, according to investigators from the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office.
The migrants were told they would be murdered if they did not call their relatives and ask they send $16,000 for each of the captives, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
But the relatives could raise no more than $8,000 each, so the kidnappers debated for five days what to do. In that time, Chihuahua police got word of the kidnapping and set off to find the victims.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, Omar M.P. and Jesus Antonio M.M. on Nov. 23, 2023, decided to execute the migrants. Members of the state police’s Strategic Operations unit raided the home, freed the migrants and arrested the two suspects before they killed their captives.
In addition to the 33-year prison sentence, “Fat Flow” and Omar M.P. were ordered by the judge to pay a 184,500 peso fine ($9,000) to cover the cost of psychological and medical treatment the migrants received.
An internet search revealed videos of various rappers named Fat Flow. In one, a man of similar physical characteristics as photographs of Jesus Antonio M.M. released by the Chihuahua Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office is seen waving a gun as he sings about life the “barrio,” or neighborhood in Juarez.
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