Overview
- Semar located an atypical vessel near Topolobampo and transferred 28 people—27 ages 14–17 and one 18-year-old—to port, where all were found in good health.
- The group is under the custody of the Sinaloa Vicefiscalía Zona Norte with SIPINNA providing medical, psychological and legal support.
- Preliminary interviews indicate most of the adolescents identify as from Chiapas and report traveling voluntarily to Baja California Sur for agricultural work, with some saying they worked in Comondú.
- Prosecutors are investigating potential trafficking or labor exploitation, and no detentions have been reported.
- Officials have downplayed early kidnapping claims, and authorities are using translators, contacting families and weighing return arrangements or legal actions.