Overview

• José Víctor Guerrero González was arrested around 2:04 a.m. on August 28 in Hermosillo during a court‑authorized search and was transferred to the state prison in Cereso No. 1.
• State anticorruption prosecutors formally accused him of peculado and failure to fulfill legal duties, and the court has not yet ruled on vinculación a proceso after the defense requested a 1,444‑hour extension.
• A judge ordered justified preventive detention to ensure the accused appear at upcoming hearings given the significant amounts under investigation.
• Francisco Alberto “N”, former Subsecretary of Planning (2017–2021), was also detained and accused in the same case, according to the Sonora prosecutor’s office.
• Prosecutor Gustavo Rómulo Salas said additional suspects have active arrest warrants and are being sought, as the case stems from an ASF audit that documented 90 serious irregularities.