A federal judge ordered a trial against an alleged person involved in the attack on members of the LeBarón family that occurred in November of 31 in the community La Mora, in Bavispe, state of Sonora, Mexico, informed the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) of Mexico.
A statement from the FGR, through the Specialized Crime Prosecutor Organized (Femdo), indicated that as a result of the investigative work coordinated by the agent of the Public Ministry of the Federation, Rodrigo “C” was arrested for the crime of organized crime with the purpose of committing crimes against health.
Although the authorities did not specify the surname of the suspect, local media identified the subject as Rodrigo Ceballos Martínez, alias “El Chamuco”.
Agents from the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM), from the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), experts from the FGR and agents from the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), carried out an arrest warrant search in the municipality of Ascensión, Chihuahua, where the suspect was apprehended.
Subsequently, following the initial hearing, the judge in the case ordered the trial against Ceballos Martínez for being the alleged perpetrator in the aforementioned crime, confirming preventive detention in the Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation Number 1 “Altiplano”, in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico.
Armed men with assault rifles fired in an ambush in the mountains between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, on November 4, 2019 against three vans where I saw They were women and children who left the La Morita community, in the municipality of Bavispe, for the Mormon community of LeBarón.
One of the official versions specified that in the attack, a criminal group called La Línea he confused the families with his rivals, leaving the fateful balance of three women and six children dead.
The capture of the subject was announced on May 20 by the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a conference of press. The president specified that the subject was the person number 31 to be arrested in relation to the case.
With information from EFE