Overview

• Judge Enrique Hernández Miranda opened a criminal proceeding for alleged organized crime and arms trafficking after weighing roughly 20 to 21 items of evidence.
• The court imposed a ban on leaving Mexico and ordered no contact with prosecution witnesses, rejecting periodic check-ins due to security and media exposure concerns.
• The ruling diverges from Article 19’s automatic pretrial detention for serious crimes, a discretionary decision the federal prosecutor’s office can appeal.
• The dossier cites U.S. Homeland Security Investigations reporting and references to a DEA inquiry, plus material such as a boxing robe seized at a Sinaloa cartel property that the defense disputes.
• Chávez Jr. was deported from the United States on August 18 and appeared by videoconference from a federal prison in Hermosillo as the court set a three‑month complementary investigation ending with a November 24 hearing.