It took jurors roughly three hours to acquit Juan Espinoza Martinez of a murder-for-hire aimed at U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the face of Operation Midway Blitz.
Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared and nobody has been convicted.