Local News in Brief : Suspect Still in Solitary
A suspect in the torture-killing of narcotics agent Enrique Camarena lost a bid Friday for release from solitary confinement, where he claims the government is trying to break him psychologically.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson notified attorneys in the case that he would not issue a temporary restraining order forcing officials at Terminal Island federal prison to release Jesus Felix-Gutierrez from “lock-down” status.
Felix-Gutierrez, who is serving a 15-year term for cocaine trafficking, is also one of nine men linked to the February, 1985, abduction, torture and murder of Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala, near Guadalajara.
Felix-Gutierrez is to serve his 15-year term at Marion, Ill., but is being held at Terminal Island pending trial in the Camarena case. He filed suit complaining that he has been kept in a 6-by-9-foot cell for 15 months, alone except for six months when he had a cellmate.
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