Overview
- State and federal forces detained seven municipal police escorts at Uruapan’s Casa de la Cultura on suspicion of aggravated homicide by commission through omission.
- Judicial authorities postponed the initial hearing for Jorge Armando “El Licenciado” to integrate the newly detained escorts into a single proceeding.
- Jorge Armando Gómez Sánchez is held at the El Altiplano federal prison, with prosecutors citing phone forensics and messaging-group coordination as key evidence.
- Officials say the cell was linked to the CJNG and that “El Licenciado” relayed orders from local boss Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala, known as “El R1.”
- The 17-year-old gunman who shot Mayor Carlos Manzo during the Festival de las Velas was killed after being detained, and investigators are reviewing whether force used by escorts was excessive.