Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Lucha Star Gets Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Jail


After almost serving two years in prison awaiting sentencing for almost murdering two police officers, Jesús Luna Pozos aka Charly Manson (Charly Malice in Lucha Libre USA) was sentenced on Monday 8/26 to 7 years and 4 months in federal prison.
The incident happened on April 24th, 2011 when Manson was arrested in Zapotitla, Mexico after assaulting four police officers as they were trying to arrest him for being drunk. Manson and his friend Adrián López Reyes (who was also a juvenile) were looking for Charly’s car and couldn’t find it so they found the officers to help them because they thought that they had been carjacked but the cops wanted to bring them in for being drunk so a huge argument ensued.
Another police officer showed up as backup and in the excitement of the situation, he shot Reyes in the leg before an ambulance showed up to pick up Reyes and the officers. Charly and Reyes were both taken to jail then Reyes was sent to a hospital while the officers were sent to another one with one of the officers having some serious head injuries.
Román Castañeda Castro who was the police officer that was severely injured by Manson was revealed to have suffered a fractured skull with brain trauma and his partner Moisés Izaguirre Baños had to have surgery on his nose.
At the time, Luis Genaro Vázquez who is the deputy Attorney General for the PGJDF said that with Manson being adverse in wrestling they were treating this case even more serious than a regular fight with police because Manson's extremities were considered as weapons against defenseless policemen.

The full legal report at the time was as follows:

The attorney general's office of the Justicia del Distrito Federal (PGJDF) exercised penal action against the professional wrestler Jesús Luna Pozos whose professional name is Charly Manson and Adrián López Reyes who was his driver for probable responsibility of assault qualified by acting advantage against agents of the authority. Through the Fiscalía Desconcentrada de Investigación en Tláhuac, la Subprocuraduría de Averiguaciones Previas Desconcentradas reported that Manson & Reyes were consigned before the penal judge that was on duty at Reclusorio Preventivo Varonil Sur since ministerially the accusations were accredited by injuring two preventive police officers with fighting tactics of his art. According to registered information on the early morning of April 24, 2011, the wrestler Charly Manson in the company of his driver Adrián López Reyes were found on calle (street) Bartolomé Escobedo, colonia Agrícola Metropolitana as they were trying to look for their vehicle after requesting police assistance. The police showed up and were told by Manson they were looking for a red Dodge Caliber that wasn't parked where it was supposed to be at. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers questioned them on how they lost their vehicle which during the questioning the wrestler started pushing the cops which started a clash. Manson then employed his lucha libre know-how by striking police officer Moisés Izaguirre Baños in the face causing an orbital fracture in his right eye and a fractured jawbone meanwhile Román Castañeda Castro suffered a fractured skull with brain trauma. Two more assisting officers arrived at the scene where they joined the fray where they proceeded to detain Manson & Reyes then taking them to Ministerio Público de la Coordinación Territorial Tláhuac Dos where the corresponding prior inquiry was initiated. It will take 60 days or more for Castro to heal so penal action will be exercised against Manson & Reyes. The legal argument consigned to Manson & Reyes is found established in article 130, fraction III with the qualification that the crime was committeed with advantage predicted in the article 130 relating to the 134 which is aggrevated assault against the legitimate exercise of the authority predicted in the article 289 of the penal code of the federal district. Regarding maximum and minimum punishments, the medium term is greater to 5 years with the maximum being 8 to 10 years as this is treated like a serious crime therefore there is no benefit of low precaution.

AAA's lawyers bailed Charly Manson out of prison on May 4th, 2011 and he went back to work for the promotion until June 30th, 2011 when Manson was arrested after the AAA TV taping in Tizayuca on a warrant placed by the judge revoking his bail and was transferred to Mexico City early Friday morning where he has been in jail ever since. This stems from the attack on the police officers in April that sent him to prison to begin with before bail was met on May 3rd, 2011 but the judge decided to revoke the bail and Manson had been in prison ever since.
Reyes did his prison time and has been released on parole.

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