In yet another display of the collusion between authorities and criminals, agents from the Colima State Attorney General’s Office have arrested eight municipal police officers from Manzanillo for allegedly leaking security information to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
How did they do it? To communicate with the criminals, they utilized a messaging application—a Swiss-made app—known as Threema. It’s the very same application used in 2025 by the hitmen who assassinated the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manso.
Emir Castañeda reports that the investigation by the Colima Attorney General’s Office into the eight Manzanillo officers began following the murder of the City Secretary of Villa de Álvarez, Alfredo Chávez.
The killing took place on February 14, 2024, while Chávez was exercising inside the residential subdivision where he lived.
“Alfredo Chávez González. Alfredo Chávez González—present! Alfredo Chávez González—present!”
During the homicide investigation, authorities executed a search warrant during which they discovered two cell phones with the encrypted messaging app Threema installed.
Through this app, they were sharing information with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel—specifically, providing real-time updates regarding arrests, checkpoints, and responses to reports received by the C5 command center.
The State Attorney General’s Office detailed that the eight implicated municipal officers possess seniority ranging from 10 to 25 years within the security institution; they stand accused of the crimes of misuse of information and criminal association.
They are alleged to be colluding with organized crime—and, more significantly, are accused of betraying the trust mandated by their uniform, as well as the trust that the people of Colima had placed in them.
The messaging app Trima was also utilized by the Jalisco Cartel hit squad that assassinated the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manso, on November 1, 2025—a group that, much like the police officers in Manzanillo, formed a chat group to coordinate the attack.
Trima is a Swiss-developed application, and one of its standout features is total user anonymity, as it requires neither a phone number nor an email address. Furthermore, it offers end-to-end encryption between devices and the option to forgo data storage, as messages are automatically deleted once delivered.
Let it be clear to you all that the instigators of violence don’t necessarily operate from the outside; sometimes, they are found within.
Source: Milenio
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