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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Mariah Lopez, 13, and her grandmother O<span style="color: #000000;">ralia Mendoza, 49, were killed on June 4 in Moon Cemetery outside of Huntsville, Alabama</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>New details emerged in court on Thursday in hearings for the two men charged</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Yoni Aguilar, 26, and Israel Palomino, 34, are both charged with capital murder</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Mendoza had dated Palomino in the past, but was currently dating and living with Aguilar at the time of her death </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Prosecutors say grandma Oralia Mendoza, was tied to the Sinaloa Cartel</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Slaying followed a dispute over a meth score between granny and Investigators say the men then drove the victims to a cemetery and Mendoza was fatally stabbed in front of her granddaughter Mariah</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Aguilar told investigators that Palomino then forced him to kill the teen by beheading her in a secluded area because she was a witness.<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police found two knives tied to the murders &#8211; one under Palomino&#8217;s mattress, and the other under Aguilar&#8217;s</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296199" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Oralia-Mendoza-and-her-granddaughter-Mariah-Lopez-1-1.jpg" alt="Oralia Mendoza and her granddaughter Mariah Lopez 1.JPG" width="692" height="503" />Victims: Mariah Lopez, 13, and her grandmother Oralia Mendoza,[photo], were killed on June 4 in Moon Cemetery outside of Huntsville, Alabama</strong></h6>
<div>A 13-year-old girl in Alabama was beheaded because she saw her Sinaloa Cartel-associated grandmother stabbed to death by drug traffickers, authorities have said.<br />
Mariah Lopez and her grandmother Oralia Mendoza, 49, were killed on June 4 in Moon Cemetery outside of Huntsville, Alabama, prosecutors revealed in court on Thursday.<br />
The crime details in the case came to light in a hearing for 26-year-old Yoni Aguilar, who along with 34-year-old Israel Palomino is charged with two counts of capital murder in their slayings.<br />
At the hearing, investigators testified that the grandmother Mendoza had ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, <a class="class" href="https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2018/07/13-year-old_beheaded_after_wit.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AL.com</a> reported.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296201" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Yoni-Aguilar-left-and-Israel-Palomino-right-1.jpg" alt="Yoni Aguilar (left) and Israel Palomino (right) 1" width="666" height="495" />Cartel hitmen Yoni Aguilar [left] and Israel Palomino [right], each charged with two counts each of capital murder in the slayings of Lopez and Mendoza</strong></h6>
<div>On June 2, two days before the murders, the two alleged killers joined Mendoza and another woman on a trip to Norcross, Georgia to score methamphetamine.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The two women were both linked to the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, investigators said.<br />
Based in Mexico, the cartel was long run by Joaquín &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzmán, who is now in custody in the US pending trial.<br />
The grandmother had previously dated Palominio and was living with and dating Aguilar at the time of her death.<br />
The two men became suspicious of a double-cross when Palomino discovered that the grandma had removed a SIM card from her cell phone, and had sent texts to a mystery number during the drug run to Georgia, cops said.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296204" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Yoni-Aguilar-2.jpg" alt="Yoni Aguilar 2.JPG" width="695" height="476" />Yoni Aguilar appeared in Madison County District Court on July 12, 2018 for a preliminary hearing in the killings</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-296200" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Oralia-Mendoza-1.jpg" alt="Oralia Mendoza 1.JPG" width="685" height="857" />Grandmother Oralia Mendoza, [photo], was Mariah&#8217;s main guardian. She was also a drug runner associated with Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa Cartel which ultimately led to he death and that of her grand-daughter</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/el-chapo1.jpeg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Joaquin ";El Chapo"; Guzman" width="679" height="475" /><strong>Based in Mexico, the cartel was long run by Joaquín &#8216;El Chapo&#8217; Guzmán [photo], who is now in custody in the US pending trial</strong></h6>
<p>Although Mendoza was Mariah&#8217;s main guardian. Investigators say her ultimate undoing was her role as a drug runner associated with the Sinaloa Cartel</p>
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<div>Palominio and Aguilar woke the grandmother and her granddaughter in the middle of the night, warning them that they were in danger and saying they would take them to a safe place, according to testimony.<br />
Investigators say the men then drove the victims to a cemetery and Mendoza was fatally stabbed in front of her granddaughter Mariah.<br />
Mendoza was Mariah&#8217;s main guardian. Mariah was on the autism spectrum.<br />
According to police, Aguilar told investigators that Palomino then forced him to kill the girl by beheading her in a secluded area because she was a witness.<br />
Police say they found two knives tied to the murders: one under Palomino&#8217;s mattress, and the other under Aguilar&#8217;s.<br />
It&#8217;s unclear whether Palomino or Aguilar has an attorney.</div>
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Drug traffickers ‘BEHEAD special needs girl, 13, in Alabama because she saw them stab her grandma to death over her links to El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel’
