Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) – In Jalisco, the State Prosecutor’s Office managed to arrest four police officers and a former official from the municipality of San Ignacio Cerro Gordo due to their alleged responsibility in the kidnapping of several citizens, whose whereabouts remain unknown to date.
On February 14, personnel from the Special Prosecutor for Missing Persons (FEPD) carried out the arrest of the four agents from the Public Security Commission for the crime of kidnapping. Those police arrested for kidnapping were identified as José G. ., Luisa S., Silvestres M., and Fabiola C.
The former municipal public servant identified as Óscar B., who allegedly also participated in the disappearance of three people, was also charged.
Elements of the Investigative Police deployed an operation in the municipality of San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, where the four officers and a former official involved in kidnappings in Jalisco were located and arrested. After their apprehension, they were placed at the disposal of a control judge who will determine their legal situation.
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Based on the investigations carried out, it was possible to determine that the three victims were last seen in 2021. However, their names or the degree of involvement of those now detained were not disclosed, nor were the possible causes that would have led to their disappearance.
According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDNO), throughout the country, 109,516 people were reported kidnapped up to December 31, 2022. The state of Jalisco, governed by Enrique Alfaro, is the entity that concentrates the highest number of victims nationwide.
In Jalisco, about 15,038 missing persons were recorded, so since Alfaro began his governorship in Jalisco in 2018, this issue has been one of the main problems that afflict the population. The governor has been involved in a series of controversies due to his statements, such as when in December 2021 he pointed out that most of the people disappeared “of their own free will”, which generated outrage among relatives of victims.
The state of Jalisco is followed by Tamaulipas, with 12,467 missing persons; the State of Mexico, with 11,868; Veracruz, with 7,438; Nuevo León, with 6,250; Sinaloa, with 5,664; Mexico City, with 5,163 and Michoacán, with 4,803 (until the end of last year).
According to data from the Information System on Disappearance Victims (Sisovid), from December 2018 to January 31, 2023, 12,533 people who had been reported missing to the FEPD have been located. Most of the locations were carried out in 2019 when just over three thousand were reported.
However, 10,567 people were located alive (6,577 men and 3,990 women) and 1,966 without life (1,776 men and 190 women).
According to article 4, paragraph 1 of the Law of Missing Persons of the State of Jalisco, a person classified as disappeared is one whose whereabouts or location is unknown, even if their absence is not related to any type of crime. That is why the victims are sought under the principle of presumption of life.
Nearly three people go missing in Puerto Vallarta every day. Elements of the Investigative Police deployed an operation in the municipality of San Ignacio Cerro . . .
