Overview

• Jalisco authorities arrested the former Chivas striker on October 4 in Zapopan under a warrant issued by the Tenth Control Court.
• At the October 5 initial hearing, the defense invoked the 144-hour term, and a judge ordered mandatory preventive detention.
• He remains in a higher-security special cell at the Puente Grande complex, has met only with his attorneys, and was reported in normal health, according to the state security secretary.
• The next hearing on October 10 will determine whether he is formally linked to prosecution for aggravated child sexual abuse.
• Governor Pablo Lemus publicly pledged there will be no impunity, and press reports note the alleged offense carries penalties of up to 20 years in prison under Jalisco law.