Overview
- The six active SSyPC officers were taken into custody inside the agency’s Villahermosa headquarters during the morning roll call.
- One day earlier, former state police director Leonardo Arturo Leyva, alias “El Carnal,” was arrested in Tuxtla Gutiérrez and accused of serving as the group’s regional chief in Tabasco and Chiapas.
- Prosecutors describe the arrests as part of a coordinated state–federal operation targeting La Barredora within the police structure.
- Ex–security secretary Hernán Bermúdez remains jailed as an alleged leader, while his former aides Tomás “N” and Ulises “N” are cooperating with the FGR and providing case-driving testimony.
- Tabasco Governor Javier May said more detentions will follow as investigations continue.