Overview

• Fernando Sánchez Olivera, also identified as Jonathan Alexis Cabrera Rivera, was convicted for the 2021 killings of two Policía Federal Ministerial agents.
• He was found guilty of evasion of prisoners, robbery, carrying a firearm exclusive to the Armed Forces, attempted qualified homicide, and qualified homicide against public officials.
• Investigators determined he was a Manzanillo municipal police officer under detention at the FGR subdelegation in Puerto Vallarta when he disarmed a custodian, shot both agents, and escaped.
• Authorities recaptured him on January 1, 2022 in Tecomán, Colima after intelligence and field operations, and he has been held at Cefereso No. 1 Altiplano.
• The Ministerio Público Federal presented the evidence leading to the sentence, and local reporting notes a possible CJNG link that was not established in the court ruling.