Overview

• Hernán Bermúdez Requena, ex security chief of Tabasco and alleged leader of La Barredora, was ordered into preventive custody after a videoconference hearing before a Villahermosa control judge.
• He faces local charges of criminal association, extortion and express kidnapping under case 213/2025 tied to the 2019 abduction of gas-station owner Ramón Martínez Armengol.
• Authorities said Bermúdez was repatriated from Asunción on an FGR aircraft and detained at Toluca on the local warrant, while a separate federal organized-crime order has not yet been executed.
• Tabasco’s attorney general warned that penalties could reach up to 158 years if he is convicted, and initial proceedings are being conducted virtually due to security concerns.
• Editorial analysis contends the case is politically damaging to López Hernández’s faction within Morena, though any decision to question him rests with the FGR.