He has once again exposed it to Mexico. The Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) of Tabasco has arrested this Sunday a 15-year-old boy nicknamed in the official report as The Hitman Boy linked to crimes of kidnappings, murders and drug sales in the State, as reported by local media citing police sources. The minor was carrying an Uzi submachine gun at the time of the arrest, and was arrested along with a 37-year-old man, identified as José Asunción “N” alias The chunchowhom the authorities point out as the operator of a boss whose boss is currently in prison.
Members of the Olmeca Interinstitutional Tactical Reaction Force (FIRT) team that depends on the SSPC were the ones who carried out the operation on October 12. The agents detained the minor on the Villahermosa-La Isla highway at dawn. The boy tried to fire his gun to escape, but a casing jammed when he tried to open fire. The authorities detained him and the man who accompanied him along with an assortment of drugs in transparent plastic bags that carried marijuana, methamphetamine, long weapons and cardboard with messages of threats to the population and rival organizations, according to what he said. The Herald of Tabasco.
That same media added in its coverage that the boy had content on his phone that involved him in the kidnapping and release of a woman, as well as in the murder of another victim in Paraíso, a city on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one hour from Villahermosa.
In an interview with the media in the area, a representative of the Tabasco Bar Association insisted that in the courts. Lawyer Sergio Antonio Reyes Ramos has pointed out that it is also a risk to confine the detained child in a juvenile detention center with other adolescents with minor crimes.
The recruitment of minors by cartels and criminal cells is a painful reality that does not cease in the country. In several states, prosecutors have detained children who join the ranks of organized crime from the age of 12 in search of belonging to a group, getting out of poverty or as a way of life to support their families. Since 2021, the statistics of minors arrested for drug dealing in the country have not stopped growing, reaching 2,920 children arrested in 2025, according to the newspaper. The Universal through Transparency requests.
