AUSTIN, Texas - A South Austin man, now convicted of murder, opened up to detectives inside the interrogation room.

His story includes a web of cartel orders, drug debts, and betrayal.

What they're saying:

Inside the Austin police interrogation room, Francisco Lopez Junior started talking.

"Who does he represent," Austin Police Homicide Detective Sgt. Nathan Sexton asked Lopez.

"The new generation Cartel de Jalisco," Lopez replied.

"You know his position or rank or wherever he’s at?" Sgt. Sexton asked.

"See what I understand, he’s like right under Mencho. He’s the new Chapo from what I’ve been told," Lopez said.

Lopez said he was told he needed to have someone killed who owed the Cartel thousands of dollars. In June 2019, Lopez picked up Guillermo Gomez and Evan Zanders. They wer

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