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FORT WORTH ? The sister of a Mexican cartel lawyer who was slain in a murder-for-hire plot in Southlake took revenge against a rival cartel leader by having his relative beheaded, according to court testimony on Friday.
That claim came during the federal trial here of two men who are accused of stalking Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa prior to his May 2013 murder at Southlake Town Square.
A cooperating witness, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma Campano, testified for a second day against his father, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma Cepeda, 59, and their cousin, Jose Luis Cepeda Cortes, 60.
The father and son are accused of hunting down Guerrero Chapa over several months using high-tech surveillance equipment with help from their cousin. The assassin and getaway driver remain fugitives.
Ledezma Campano, 32, who has pleaded guilty to one of the two charges against him, said the victim?s sister hired someone to kill a female relative of Rodolfo Villarreal Hernandez, a Beltran Leyva cartel leader known as ?El Gato,? to avenge her brother?s killing.
Gato had ordered the murder of Guerrero Chapa because he held the Gulf cartel lawyer responsible for his father?s murder in Mexico years earlier, Ledezma Campano said.
Testimony: Beheading carried out as vengeance for slaying of drug cartel lawyer in Southlake | | Dallas Morning News