Magdaleno Meza’s wife and two bodyguards shot down in San Pedro Sula

The wife of Magdaleno Meza, Erika Yulissa Bandy Garcia, and two bodyguards were riddled with bullets this Thursday afternoon in a business on 10th street and 23rd avenue in the Río de Piedras neighborhood of San Pedro Sula.

The woman was attacked with bullets inside the Extra bakery by several heavily armed men. Simultaneously, another group of hooded men surprised the two bodyguards who were near the white Prado truck with HDS 5801 license plates.

According to the witness accounts, the hit men with apparent training knelt down the business customers while pointing their rifles at the woman.

The truck in which Magdaleno Meza’s wife was traveling was armored.

Erika Yulissa Bandy Garcia she had been released in April 2023 from the National Women’s Penitentiary for Social Adaptation (PNFAS), after being captured in 2018.

Erika Yulissa Bandy Garcia She was arrested on June 6, 2018 along with her husband and three bodyguards by a team from the Military Police and the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (DLCN).

Magdaleno Meza, also known as Nery López Sanabria, was murdered on October 26, 2019 inside the maximum security prison known as El Pozo, in Ilama, Santa Bárbara.

The Honduran drug trafficker, who was one of the partners of the Valle Valle cartel, was the author of the narcobooks where the name Tony Hernández appeared and which were presented in the trial against him in the United States.

Magdaleno was interested in escaping and regaining his freedom, the first thing he did was forge a letter of freedom for himself and his wife. It was when a tunnel was discovered that ended at the Ilama prison.

Before being captured, he had faked his death and arranged his funeral which few people attended and then showed a photograph of a dead body in the coffin that had supposedly been entombed.