García Crespo arrested in Mazatlán family disappearance case

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Federal authorities arrested Jesús Javier García Crespo in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, in connection with the disappearance of six members of a family from Mexico State, El Diario de Juárez reports. The disappearances were recorded in February in the city’s Zona Dorada tourist area. Authorities later found two victims alive in the community of El Habla, while the other four people remained missing according to the report.

A federal control judge in Oaxaca ordered García Crespo to stand trial on charges involving the alleged disappearance of four men and the aggravated disappearance of a woman and a girl. The Federal Attorney General’s Office, or FGR, said in a statement that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence for the decision, and that the judge imposed mandatory pretrial detention and set a four-month period for the complementary investigation. García Crespo was transferred to Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 13 in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca, where he is expected to remain during the proceedings. These are allegations and procedural decisions, not a conviction.

The report describes García Crespo as an alleged member of Los Chapitos, a faction identified in the source as a criminal group. It also names Misael Guerrero Pérez, known as “El Güero Pink,” and Hilario Javier Martínez Gómez, a former public security and transit director in Escuinapa, as people federal authorities have identified as principal suspects in the case. El Diario de Juárez says 25 people have been arrested in connection with the family’s disappearance. The available account does not establish the final legal status of those other detainees or provide an independent finding on the alleged affiliations.