Overview

• Two suspects—owner José Luis Arellano Cuaron and employee Facundo M. R.—are in pretrial detention charged with improper disposal of human remains and face up to 17 years in prison.
• Forensic teams have begun cataloging 383 complete bodies and six partial remains recovered from the Plenitud Crematorium’s compound.
• Prosecutors say the bodies piled up without cremation since 2020 under subcontracts from six funeral homes and include 218 men, 149 women and 16 unidentifiable by gender.
• Chihuahua State Inspector Carlos Tarín launched an administrative procedure that could lead to the revocation of the crematorium’s health permit for violating corpse disposal rules.
• Authorities are calling on more families to visit the prosecutor’s office with identifying details to learn whether their loved ones are among the remains.