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Michoacán Prosecutor Offers 100,000-Peso Reward to Locate Suspect in Uruapan Kidnapping

The agency is soliciting verified tips through a public search notice to help locate the fugitive as teams search for the missing girls.

Overview

  • A judge issued an arrest warrant for Luis Felipe Duarte Gómez for probable direct participation in the aggravated kidnapping of a woman and her two minor daughters in Uruapan on November 24.
  • Fiscal General Carlos Torres Piña formalized the offer under agreement 22/2025, pledging up to 100,000 pesos for information that leads to Duarte Gómez’s location and detention.
  • The victim, identified as Maritza Natalia Espino, was found dead on November 29, while her daughters remain missing.
  • The search notice describes Duarte Gómez as 36 years old, about 1.70 meters tall, with a robust build, beard and goatee, and a history of kidney transplant surgery.
  • Tips can be submitted confidentially to the FGE’s Criminal Intelligence Agency in Morelia, via email at recompensas@fiscaliamichoacan.gob.mx, or by calling 800 890 8106, with exclusions applying to certain public servants as coordinated state and federal operations continue.