Overview

• On July 19, Sonora’s FGJES and AMIC intercepted a gray Toyota Corolla with Baja California plates at the Camino del Seri and bulevar Quiroga intersection, leading to the 30-year-old’s arrest.
• A judge charged Isaías Valentín “N” with forced disappearance resulting in death for Massiel Adrián “N” and ordered him held in preventive detention pending a July 23 hearing.
• The vehicle was secured as evidence in an active probe into the illegal detention of two people in Colonia Jerez del Valle by suspects impersonating ministerial agents.
• Valentín faced four outstanding warrants since December 2023 for disappearance-related crimes and association with organized crime, was linked to the January 2024 Jakarta Clublife bar homicides and carried a one-million-peso bounty.
• Authorities identified him as a lieutenant of Los Cazadores, a Los Chapitos splinter cell of the Sinaloa Cartel, and a priority target designated by the state security cabinet.