Overview
- Federal prosecutors charged Yoel Alter with organized crime with the aim of committing human trafficking under the hypothesis of forced marriages.
- Authorities executed the arrest in Chiapas through a coordinated operation by the Security Ministry and the FGR’s Criminal Investigation Agency.
- The judge deemed the detention legal and imposed mandatory preventive detention while the case proceeds.
- The defense requested the constitutional term extension, delaying the decision on whether the case will be formally linked to prosecution.
- Officials say Lev Tahor faces longstanding allegations of child abuse and abductions and has operated clandestinely across Israel, New York, Guatemala and Mexico, with prior rescues and arrests in a 2022 Tapachula raid.