A Jalisco prosecution court has considered guilty of disappearance and homicide to the 10 men who were arrested in it. After a week of hearing, three state judges have decided to sentence 114 years and to the payment of 1.3 million pesos (about 70,000 dollars) to the defendants, who were. This event occurred six months before search engines groups entered this field in Teuchitlán and identified it as an operations center of the New Generation Jalisco cartel.
On September 18, 2024, an anonymous call to Jalisco C5 Surveillance Service took the National Guard for the first time to the Izaguirre Rancho. There, the uniformed men were shot. However, they were able to enter the place. There they found Lennin, David, Gustavo, Christopher, Juan, Oscar, Erick, Luis, Ricardo and Armando, who were arrested. They had two people deprived of liberty and also the body of another man, who had died from a cranioesephalic injury. The detainees made available to the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office, together with the rest of the evidence found.
This event has become a central piece in the Labyrinth of Teuchitlán. On the one hand, it allows to know that the authorities – especially state, but also federal – were in the ranch, which is now considered a center of operation and forced recruitment of the New Generation Jalisco cartel. It also highlights the omissions waterfall headed by the Jalisco Prosecutor Possible witnesses and did not investigate the link of local agents with criminal groups.
Six months later, the Guerreros Relevanters collective of Jalisco entered the ranch. It was March 5 and the property had been “in a state of abandonment.” Although the place was “secured” by the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office, the search engines: 154 pairs of shoes, hundreds of pants, 140 blankets or 18 suitcases. In addition, they said they had also found bone fragments. All scrambled, stained with dust and earth, became the inventory of horror. This finding led seekers from all over the country to move to Jalisco to try to recognize garments. In a country with more than 129,000 missing,
The case forced to convert the crisis of disappeared from Mexico into a priority issue for the government of Claudia Sheinbaum. The president then announced a series of measures for the search, which have ended up expressing themselves in the reform of the disappearance law – remembered by relatives of relatives. At the same time, the authorities also launched the narrative on the ranch. The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) acknowledged that it was a recruitment center for organized crime, but denied that they were an extermination center.
Although the groups found signs of fire and human remains, and even the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, confirmed that torture and murders had been committed in the place, little has been informed about the victims. Gertz Manero said, in his last appearance on the subject, on April 29 that “of human remains. The prosecutor alluded to a report tested by the UNAM in which it is indicated that there is no evidence of heating“ above 200 degrees ”in the ranch. The official did recognize that the place had been in use of 2021 to 2024.
This period of time includes the arrest of the 10 men who have been convicted of qualified homicide this week, disappearance committed by individuals, and its version aggravated by the Collegiate Court. In addition to them, José Ascension Murguía has also been, who received 70,000 pesos per month from the CJNG, with whom he collaborated to capture new victims or pursue fled recruits. He also held meetings with his leaders and even, according to the denunciation of the FGR, came to leave human remains in a ranch ditch. This arrest tested the link between organized crime and the authorities in the municipality.
