Overview

• Vendors found at least 16 dogs dead at Mérida’s Central de Abastos on Wednesday in an apparent mass poisoning using tainted meat.
• The Yucatán state prosecutor’s forensic veterinary unit conducted procedures at the site as the case entered the initial investigative phase.
• Videos circulating on social media show an unidentified man wandering the market at night and allegedly scattering contaminated food.
• El Imparcial, citing El Heraldo, reports authorities detained a suspect identified from those videos and presented him to the Public Ministry.
• Animal welfare groups are urging strong penalties, the SSP has not issued a public update, and Yucatán’s penal code allows prison terms of up to four years for intentional animal poisoning.