Suspect in 2010 Cabanas shooting gets 20 years in Mexico

By: The Associated Press Posted: 4:53 PM CST Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 Last Modified: 6:23 PM CST Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019

MEXICO CITY - The man suspected of shooting former Paraguay national soccer team standout Salvador Cabanas in the head in 2010 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico.

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MEXICO CITY - The man suspected of shooting former Paraguay national soccer team standout Salvador Cabanas in the head in 2010 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico.

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MEXICO CITY – The man suspected of shooting former Paraguay national soccer team standout Salvador Cabanas in the head in 2010 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico.

But federal prosecutors said in a statement Sunday that a man known as Jose Jorge “B,” with no full last name given, was sentenced for organized crime, not attempted murder.

Multiple Mexican media outlets said the sentenced man was Jose Jorge Balderas Garza, alias “El J.J.,” an alleged associate of the former Beltran Leyva cartel. The newspaper El Universal said the judgment was “not related to the attack on the player.”

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2010 file photo, Paraguay's Salvador Cabanas, former player of Mexico's America soccer team, poses for a picture during a friendly game by the first team he played in, 12 de Octubre, in Itagua, Paraguay. The man who shot Cabanas in the head at point-blank range in 2010 in a Mexico City bar was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico, federal prosecutors said in a statement Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Cabanas starred with the Mexican club America at the time of the shooting in the bathroom of a Mexico City bar. It effectively ended his career despite several comeback attempts.