Overview
- The Attorney General’s Office confirmed the detention of Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega in Tijuana on a federal arrest warrant, with further operational details not yet released.
- Sánchez Ortega, a former Cisen agent, had been arrested shortly after the 1994 assassination over a blood‑stained jacket and a positive sodium rhodizonate test, then freed for lack of evidence.
- The FGR now asserts that forensic testing found the victim’s blood on his clothing and that gunshot‑residue results indicate he fired a weapon during the incident.
- Prosecutors say multiple witness statements place him at the scene at the time of the shots and reject claims that he helped transport the wounded candidate.
- The investigation alleges an earlier institutional cover‑up involving then‑Cisen official Genaro García Luna, and authorities had publicly identified Sánchez Ortega as the presumed second shooter in 2024.