Overview
- The National Detention Registry lists Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega’s arrest at 4:37 p.m. Saturday in Colonia Los Reyes, Tijuana, by the Policía Federal Ministerial.
- He is held at the FGR delegation in Tijuana and is recorded as being at the disposal of a federal judge.
- The FGR has previously identified Sánchez Ortega as the presumed second shooter in the 1994 killing and linked that line of inquiry to actions by former security official Genaro García Luna.
- Sánchez Ortega was briefly detained in 1994 with blood on his jacket and a positive gunshot-residue test, then released after a PGR ballistics report attributed the fatal shot to Mario Aburto.
- PRI leaders criticized the arrest as a political distraction as federal officials withheld details on the motive and specific charges.