Overview
- Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla announced the detentions during President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning briefing.
- A military judge ordered preventive imprisonment for six Army members, who are being held in a Mazatlán prison.
- The Fiscalía General de la República continues a separate homicide investigation as the military justice case proceeds.
- The girls, Leidy and Alexa, were killed on May 6, 2024, when soldiers fired on their family’s vehicle near La Cieneguilla on Federal Highway 24 in the Badiraguato sierra.
- Authorities initially described crossfire with an armed group, a version the family rejects as they allege a direct attack.