Overview
- State authorities arrested Jorge Armando N., known as “El Licenciado,” in Morelia and presented him as a presumed intellectual author of the November 1 killing of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo.
- The suspect was placed at the Public Ministry after federal security chief Omar García Harfuch announced the detention during a joint briefing with state officials.
- The Michoacán attorney general said investigators are not ruling out a political motive in the homicide and that the case remains open.
- Eighty‑three criminal and administrative complaints that Manzo filed against the prior Uruapan administration continue through the anticorruption prosecutor and state and federal auditors after requests for added documentation were made before his death.
- Authorities say search operations are underway and more arrests are being prepared, while security sources report—without official confirmation—that the detainee held roles within the Cártel Nueva Generación, and some politicians are publicly urging probes of other figures.