Overview
- Federal security personnel and Michoacán prosecutors detained Yesenia Méndez Rodríguez in an operation at Uruapan’s Casa de la Cultura, where she was arrested alongside an unidentified man.
- Méndez served as the slain mayor Carlos Manzo Rodríguez’s private secretary, later worked for his successor Grecia Quiroz García, and briefly headed the municipal office after the killing.
- Authorities report 13 people now detained in the case, including seven members of the mayor’s protection detail who face charges of homicide by omission.
- Earlier arrests include alleged CJNG coordinator Jorge Armando Gómez Sánchez, known as “El licenciado” or “El contador,” along with suspected recruiters and messengers detained in November and December.
- Investigators say the chief of the mayor’s escorts, Army Colonel José Manuel Jiménez Miranda, remains a fugitive.