Overview
- Judge Guadalupe Beatriz Martínez Taboada ordered José Alberto Abud Flores and two collaborators to stand trial for simple possession under narcomenudeo statutes after a five-hour hearing.
- The trio will remain at liberty under precautionary measures requiring periodic signatures and a ban on leaving Campeche.
- At the defense’s request, Abud Flores will check in at the Oral Trials Court rather than at the state security agency.
- Defense attorney Edwin Trejo alleges police planted the supposed drugs and says no bodycam footage has been presented, and he plans to file an amparo to challenge the ruling.
- Abud Flores was detained on January 12 inside UACAM, an arrest that led to confrontation with the university council, and critics tie the case to prior disputes with Governor Layda Sansores.