Overview

• Roberto Copado Gutiérrez is in U.S. immigration custody at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona after being detained by ICE.
• He has a Mexican court sentence of five years and seven months for homicide and injury by negligence related to the 2009 tragedy, with a standing re-arrest order.
• U.S. authorities could deport him in the coming days for transfer to Mexican prosecutors to execute the pending warrant, according to official reports.
• Copado served as Hermosillo’s municipal civil protection director in 2009 and signed safety approvals that were scrutinized in the criminal investigations.
• His detention follows the recent deportation and jailing of co-owner Sandra Lucía Téllez Nieves, and families note that only these two of 22 people with culpability ratified are in custody.