{"id":167102,"date":"2026-02-16T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167102\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:35:07","slug":"mexican-federal-judge-orders-release-of-juarez-crematorium-owner-where-nearly-400-bodies-were-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167102\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican federal judge orders release of Ju\u00e1rez crematorium owner where nearly 400 bodies were found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JU\u00c1REZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) &#8212; A Mexican federal judge ordered the immediate release over the weekend of Jos\u00e9 Luis A.C., the former owner of the infamous &#8220;Crematorio Plenitud,&#8221; where approximately 386 bodies were found in Ju\u00e1rez last year.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Luis Eduardo Rivas, of the Seventh District Court, granted an injunction to the crematorium owner, a decision described by family members as an &#8220;atrocity that tears apart the social fabric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/for\/2025\/06\/30\/chihuahua-authorities-find-hundreds-of-uncremated-bodies-at-juarez-crematorium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> last June that Mexican local, state, and federal authorities discovered these 386 bodies, and that proper funeral services had not been provided to the families who had paid for services at the &#8216;Plenitud&#8217; crematorium.<\/p>\n<p>The Chihuahua Attorney General&#8217;s Office (FGE Chihuahua) held a press conference over the weekend in which Chihuahua Attorney General C\u00e9sar J\u00e1uregui Moreno demanded an immediate review of the injunction after the owner, Jos\u00e9 Luis A.C., was released from state custody in Ju\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 spoke today with a representative of the group of victims&#8217; family members after the decision was made last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story tonight on ABC-7 at 6.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JU\u00c1REZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) &#8212; A Mexican federal judge ordered the immediate release over the weekend of Jos\u00e9 Luis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-167102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}