Puerto Rico Police agents from the Mayagüez area Intelligence and Arrests Division arrested José Raúl Ramírez Avilés, 25, known as "Mejicano," at his father’s house at kilometer 2.4 of PR-316 in Cabo Rojo, on a warrant carrying a $1 million bond issued by Judge Luis Padilla Galiano. He was wanted for attempted murder and violations of three articles of the Weapons Law.
At the time of arrest he had a small bag and two marijuana cigarettes; he did not resist. Police said the acts he is charged with occurred on November 3 on PR-101 in the El Tendal sector of the Sabana Yeguas neighborhood in Lajas, where a man argued with his daughter, Caridad Z. Acosta Pagán, 28, and at the end of the altercation "Mejicano" allegedly arrived with other people, threatened him with death and fired several times.
The complainant was unharmed. Acosta Pagán and Erik M. Marrero Cancel, 25, were also charged and arrested in the case. Prosecutor Wandie Camacho, consulted on the case, summoned Ramírez Avilés to Mayagüez Court on Tuesday, where the arrest warrant was served.
According to Primera Hora’s archive, "Mejicano" was stopped in the Cotuí neighborhood of San Germán to serve a $500,000-bond arrest warrant, allegedly for possession of two pistols, ammunition, magazines, crack, marijuana and $240 in cash, on December 27, 2023.