Overview

• He was taken into custody on August 28 under an arrest warrant issued by the Oral Penal Court for Distrito Judicial Uno.
• Agents from the Agencia Ministerial de Investigación Criminal carried out the operation around 2:04 a.m. and transferred him to CERESO No. 1 in Hermosillo at about 4:30 a.m.
• He remains detained pending the next judicial steps, and authorities have not announced details of the initial hearing or potential precautionary measures.
• The accused previously led Sonora’s Education Secretariat during the Claudia Pavlovich administration and earlier served as a subsecretary.
• The federal auditor has reported serious irregularities in education funds, estimating 2.4 billion pesos in damage and citing 90 findings, according to La Jornada.