Overview
- Police identified the suspect as María de los Ángeles Blanco Moctezuma, who presented herself as the mother of Iván de Jesús Cortés Blanco during his wake at Funerales del Pueblo in Guadalupe.
- Colleagues had raised 50,000 pesos to pay for the wake, necessary paperwork, and the transfer of the officer’s body to Úrsulo Galván, Veracruz.
- After receiving the collection, the woman left the funeral and did not return, prompting staff to alert officers to her disappearance.
- The Guadalupe Public Security Secretariat assumed the expenses, processed the paperwork, and transported the body to Veracruz, where relatives handled the burial.
- Municipal police filed complaints as the case is reported as possible abuse of trust, an offense that can carry months to years of prison depending on state law, and reports note the officer had been estranged from his mother and allegedly died by suicide earlier this month.