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Ana Sofia López Osuna, registered with the Baja California State Attorney General’s Office as Public Ministry, commissioned to the Tijuana regional prosecutor’s office, was apprehended in the United States, the information was confirmed by Edgar Mendoza, the head of the area.
According to the information received unofficially, López was not arrested crossing any of the checkpoints into the United States, but in the city of San Diego, with several kilos of a white powder believed to be cocaine.
Among her belongings, a credential that accredits her as an Agent of the Public Ministry in the Regional Prosecutor’s office was found. Authorities on both sides of the border have kept information regarding her apprehension limited.
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Ana Sofía López Osuna is around 35 years old. She started working at the Baja California Attorney General’s Office (FGE) in 2015 and began as an assistant to the Public Ministry. The FGE Liaison Unit was notified by the United States authorities about the arrest of the official.
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In a similar case, last year, on June 7, 2022, Octavio Andrée Espino Torres, a former Agent of the Public Ministry of the Baja California Prosecutor’s Office, was arrested with 29 kilos of methamphetamine hidden in his car, who acted as secretary of the owner, Ricardo Carpio.
Espino tried to present himself as a “blind mule”, saying that criminals had inadvertently planted the drug on him, but the prosecutor’s office presented his cell phone as evidence that he made agreements for the delivery and movement of the drug and that he had made crossings previously. He fled from justice and from house arrest in April 2023.
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Weeks ago, Denisse Ahumada Martínez, a Reynosa City Councilwoman was arrested at a border checkpoint in Texas when 42 kilos of cocaine were found in her SUV. She was released following claims that she was threatened and did not know there were drugs in the Mazda. Shortly after, while being processed to return to Mexico, she was arrested by Texas authorities on charges of narcotics possession.