Overview
- Blanca María del Rocío Estrada Ortega and Margarita Anguiano Castro were bound to proceedings by Judge Nora Ileana García Peralta at the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Mexico City.
- Prosecutors accuse both women of possession of psychotropic drugs with intent to traffic and possession of cartridges reserved for the armed forces.
- The FGR alleges Estrada Ortega was involved in the loss or destruction of security-camera videos 12 and 15 from the Palacio de Justicia de Iguala tied to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students.
- According to investigators, the missing footage may have shown local police intercepting one of the students’ buses on the night of September 26, 2014.
- The pair were arrested during a March 17 raid at Estrada Ortega’s apartment in Jardín Balbuena, where agents seized five cartridges and boxes of controlled medications, and they were transferred to the Santa Martha Acatitla women’s prison.