Overview

• Police investigators arrested Luis Alberto “N”, known as “El Estúpido”, in the Santa Úrsula Xitla neighborhood of Tlalpan.
• Prosecutors cite an alleged aggravated kidnapping in July 2020 in San Pablo Oztotepec, where a man was held for about three hours.
• Authorities identify him as the suspected head of the group “Los Estúpidos”, which they link to robbery with violence, extortion, homicide and street-level drug dealing in southern Mexico City.
• He was transferred to the Reclusorio Preventivo Varonil Oriente as the case advances to a hearing before a control judge.
• Officials noted he previously faced a homicide case in freedom after a federal judge modified precautionary measures via an amparo, and they reiterated the presumption of innocence.