I had a long conversation today with Ricardo Lopez from the popular Sonoran news web site El Diario del Yaqui. I asked Ricardo if he could look into what was going on with bail in relation to the indictment of Carmen Ordaz. There were rumors on Bart’s forum that the bail was set at 5 million pesos but I have been unable to confirm that until now. Ricardo spoke to some of his attorney contacts in Guaymas for me and has been told that bail was indeed set at 5 million pesos. It cost an extra 2,000 pesos to file the paper work and that was the amount paid by Carmen Ordaz, 5,002,000.00 pesos. It was also mentioned that the Ordaz legal team tried to pay with a piece of real estate but after investigation it was determined that the real estate in question was not legally owned by Ordaz. I have also been informed that if someone wishes to put up a piece of real estate for bail the property must be worth three times the amount of bail.
Ricardo will publish all of this information and more tomorrow on line at El Diario and on his televised and internet streamed news program Radio Visa. I will publish the link to his story when I get it. He also commented that there were more indictments coming down against Ordaz. I will also mention that Radio Visa from 6 to 7 p.m. broadcasts a nightly news program that can be seen on T.V. and on line at the link above.
It was important to establish how much bail was paid since Richard Baca from Sunshine Realty, who is married to the sister of Carmen Ordaz, has publicly stated, at the 5th post on this thread from Bart’s forum, that Carmen was released from Jail and did not have to spend “not one single peso” to be released. So it would appear that Mr. Baca was given false information from the Ordaz legal team or he just figured no one would call up the court house and actually check and ask what was bail. I must give a special thanks to Ricardo Lopez. He has been aggressively reporting cases in Guaymas that have not have been reported by other news outlets. He is not easily intimidated either. Catalina Ordaz may have made a tactical error when she called Ricardo up and threatened him at their studio in Guaymas. Those threats only made him want to be more aggressive in his reporting of this story.