The Attorney General of Quintana Roo revealed on Monday that a 42 -year -old male suspect was arrested last Thursday as part of the murder of the police chief in the seaside resort of the Caribbean coast of Tulum.
José Roberto Rodríguez Bautista, a captain of the navy who has become a security chief, was Shot in Tulum on March 21 and died at the hospital on the morning of Saturday March 22.
The Attorney General of Quintana Roo Racel López told a press conference This state and the federal authorities arrested Alejandro “N”, alias “El Rayo”, in the city of Veracruz for his presumed involvement in the murder of the chief of municipal security.
He said the suspect comes from Taxco, Guerrero, and is a member of a criminal group.
“He participated in the homicide of the municipal secretary of public security,” said López, who noted that the authorities determined only after the Tulum shooting, the suspect fled to Tampico, Tamaulipas, before going to Veracruz.
Another armed man, a Guatemalan national known under the name of “El Chaparro”, “El Guatemalteco” and “El Kaibil”, was killed by a bodyguard after having allegedly pulled the ball which finally took the life of Rodríguez. “El Guatemalteco” and “El Rayo” were on a motorcycle when they attacked the Minister of Security.
The Attorney General said that “El Rayo” had acted on the instructions of a criminal leader from the northern state of Tamaulipas to kill Rodríguez.
He said the criminal chief was angry with the work that Rodríguez had done while a member of the Colima State police, including his participation in a research operation near the border with Jalisco.
López described the suspect detained as a “dangerous individual” linked to more than 100 murders perpetrated in northern Mexico.
He said that “El Rayo” had planned the murder with eight others hitmanor hired assassins, including “El Guatemalteco”.
López said the homicide was “very well planned”, explaining that Rodríguez and the relevant social media accounts were monitored for about five months before the Minister of Security was killed in order to determine things such as his daily movements, the number of body guarantees he had and what public events in which he would participate.
He also said the criminals tried to kill the Minister of Security six times.
“Due to various circumstances, they have not achieved their objective,” said López.
After his arrest, Alejandro “N” was transported by plane to Cancún, where a judge ordered that he was placed in preventive detention for homicide.
If he is found guilty, he risks a sentence of up to 50 years in prison. López said the authorities were trying to arrest those who collaborated with the suspect detained in homicide planning in Tulum.
“At Quintana Roo, the one who commits a crime of this nature will face the consequences,” he said.
With reports from Digital lópez-Digo,, The universal And Millennium
