In Mexican municipality all police officers are fired for alleged infiltration of organized crime

All the police officers and transits of the Mexican municipality of Juventino Rosas, around a hundred elements, were fired for the alleged infiltration of organized crime in both corporations, as reported this Wednesday by the governor of the state of Guanajuato, Diego Sinhue Rodríguez.

“Juventino Rosas is being taken over, all the municipal police are being liquidated and state forces are entering, along with the Army and National Guard to take control,” the state president announced this Wednesday in an interview with the media. .

It was precisely in Juventino Rosas, located in the center of Guanajuato, where in August of last year José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias el Marro, leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, was arrested, an organization that disputes control with the powerful Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación Of the territory.

A couple of years ago, the governor said, a public security agent was arrested in the same municipality while he was moving a dismembered body on a patrol.

Last April, the director of municipal traffic, Juan Carlos Jiménez Badillo, was also arrested, being related to the murder of the local deputy, Juan Antonio Acosta Cano, who was going to run for mayor of Juventino Rosas this year.

The state president indicated that these events are signs of the probable infiltration of criminal groups in the public security corporations of said municipality.

“There have already been several issues in Juventino Rosas that what makes us think is that there is an infiltration of crime in these police forces and it has been better chosen, with the new mayor who has arrived, to remove the entire corporation,” he commented.

Now it will be the responsibility of Fernando Gasca Almanza, who protested as mayor of Juventino Rosas on October 10, to form the Police and Traffic areas from scratch.

Meanwhile, 250 police officers from the State Public Security Forces (FSPE), along with elements of the Mexican Army and the National Guard, will be in charge of public security tasks.

Since 2018, Guanajuato has become the state with the most murders in Mexico, and nine out of 10 cases are linked to the fight between organized crime groups, according to local authorities.

From January to September of this year, official figures establish that 2,655 people have been murdered in the state, which represents about 10% of the total victims throughout the country. (I)