“I thought they would get him here eventually,” said attorney Wes Ball, who represented another defendant in the case.
”I thought they would get him here eventually,” said attorney Wes Ball, who represented another defendant in the case.
“I thought they would get him here eventually,” said attorney Wes Ball, who represented another defendant in the case.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Following the extradition of the man accused of ordering the killing of a man in Southlake more than a decade ago, a lawyer representing another defendant in the case gave his thoughts about the alleged kingpin.
“My client was a private investigator in Monterrey, Mexico, who was very good at finding people,” Wes Ball said.
The retired defense attorney got a telephone call as FBI agents transported Hernandez to Texas. Since his client was not the accused shooter in the case, Ball had his thoughts about the alleged kingpin suspected of ordering the hit.
“I thought they would get him here eventually,” Ball said.
Federal Investigators say Hernandez harbored a personal grudge against Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa and directed associates to track and murder him. A group reportedly started stalking Chapa in March 2011 and tracked him down in Texas.
“Have a guy step out a vehicle with a gun with a silencer on and fire six shots into the window of a Range Rover and kill a guy and then just speed off less than a minute,” said Wes Ball. “It’s a little bit shocking.”
The shocking murder led to the FBI putting Hernandez on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in October of 2020. Federal agents also offered reward money for information leading to his arrest of up to $1 million.
Now that Hernandez is back in the U.S. to stand trial, he will be escorted under tight security for an initial hearing where he will formally hear charges. Ball described what security will be like for his upcoming hearing.
“We had four SWAT head people on the rooftops, U.S. Marshals with AR-15s walking up and down the sidewalk outside the federal courthouse,” he said.