“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
Local public prosecutors are in constant communication with their federal counterparts regarding the investigation file.
Prosecutors from the local Public Ministry are in constant communication with their federal counterparts regarding the completion of the investigation file, which seeks to charge them with carrying weapons for the exclusive use of the Army, drug possession, and criminal conspiracy.
As of noon this Saturday, the eight men and one woman remained in custody at the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) sub-delegation in the state capital, evaluating the possibility of being transferred to the Aquiles Serdán or Cuauhtémoc prison for security reasons.
Although the statute of limitations for the arrests expired Friday afternoon, Federal Public Ministry agents obtained an extension to process the detainees. Due to the Federal Judiciary’s workload, the hearing was scheduled for Sunday at 11 a.m.
The detainees were identified as Óscar Alexis “N” (23 years old, originally from Chihuahua); Adrián Alejandro “N” (26 years old, Navojoa, Sonora); Arnulfo “N” (53 years old, Obregón, Sonora); Aldo Guadalupe “N” (27 years old, Culiacán, Sinaloa); Rafael “N” (40 years old, Navojoa, Sonora); Luis Ángel “N” (42 years old, Huatabampo, Sonora); Antonio Ignacio “N” (45 years old, Maicova, Sonora); Diego “N” (51 years old, Chihuahua) and Michel Jimena “N” (19 years old, Moris, Chihuahua).
The ambush occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, 7 October, on a road leading from Ocampo to Moris, when a convoy of state agents was on its way to relieve another shift. The officers were attacked from a vantage point on a nearby hill, resulting in the deaths of Germán Peralta Hernández, Jesús Roberto Morales Valle, and Ana Esmeralda Arteaga Arroyo. The first two lost their lives after their vehicle crashed down a ravine, while Ana Esmeralda died from gunshot wounds.
Following the attack, a large-scale operation was launched involving 200 officers and more than 60 vehicles from the SSPE, as well as drones and a helicopter, which searched the Moris and Ocampo region by air and land. The operation led to the arrest of nine individuals who were carrying various weapons and drugs and were travelling in three pick-up trucks.
Moris, Chihuahua