Overview
- Security officials said the operation unfolded around 5 a.m. between El Molino and El Jagüey in the municipality of Villanueva near the Jalisco border.
- Guardia Nacional, the Mexican Army, Zacatecas State Police, and state prosecutors took part in the joint action.
- Forces repelled gunfire from armed civilians, killing one assailant in tactical gear while the rest escaped into surrounding terrain.
- The rescued man, identified as 23-year-old Joshua Jafet Zambrano Hernández, received treatment for dehydration and later reunited with his parents.
- The state attorney general confirmed his identity and statement that he had been held under captors’ surveillance, as land and air patrols continue to pursue remaining suspects.