By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ
Managing Editor
editor@sbnewspaper.com
Julio Cesar Perez
Julio Cesar Perez, the pastor at a local Pentecostal church who was accused of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife last year pled guilty to the crime Tuesday morning as part of a plea agreement, the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office confirmed.
Perez, 41, now awaits his sentencing, of which prosecutors are reportedly asking for a 45-year sentence, to come at 8:30 a.m. Friday inside Judge Migdalia Lopez’s 197th District Court in Brownsville.
It was the evening of March 31, 2011 when Sonia Perez, Julio Cesar Perez’s wife, was found shot to death at the age of 39. Investigation by the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department uncovered that Sonia Perez, at the time a Rio Hondo Elementary School teacher and recipient of the 2008-2009 San Benito CISD Teacher of the Year award, was leaving home from work on the night of her murder when an assailant, later identified as 38-year-old Daniel Flores Lopez waited for the schoolteacher inside her vehicle.
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