18 arrested in Jalisco and Nayarit for the abduction and murder of the two Seido agents

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Reforma article

Subject Matter: Arrest of subject accused of kidnap and murder of Seido agents
Recommendation: See link to article by Guest reporter JD on their kidnapping

Reporter: Abel Barajas
The PGR and the Marines detained 18 alleged members of the CJNG implicated in the kidnapping and death of two agents of the Agency for Criminal Investigation in Nayarit. In 10 searches of homes in Jalisco and Nayarit, Federal authorities captured the suspects, among them those responsible for publishing on the Internet a video of the agents, among them two municipal police and three Colombians, one of whom is the alleged intellectual author of the crime.


Alberto Elias Beltran in charge of PGR dispatch and Omar Garcia Harfuch, from the AIC gave out a media message. "Today, who ordered, carried out, cooperated or protected those who carried out this atrocious crime, will now receive what they deserve with all the rigor of the law", said Elias Beltran.

Alfonso Hernandez Villavicencio and Octavio Martinez Quiroz, sub officials of the AIC, were kidnapped on the 5th of February in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and on the 18th of the same month, the PGR confirmed that their bodies had been found in Nayarit.

The operations to capture the suspects occurred on the morning of this Thursday in the La Ceiba fraccionamiento, in Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit, as well as in the Parque Universidad, Las Mojoneras, Versalles, Tijereta colonias, and at Loma Bonita and La Avena localities of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.

With the suspects, the officers found drugs, weapons of different calibers, telephone equipment, passports and computers and computer hard disks. The detained are now giving statements at Seido headquarters.

According to a boss of the AIC, a Colombian named Maurice is the alleged intellectual author, and the one with the materials of kidnapping and later homicide of the two AIC agents of the PGR.

This subject considered as an operator of the CJNG in Puerto Vallarta, was detained in Bahia de Banderas, although during the operation, one of the AIC agents was wounded.

The authorities also captured a subject identified as Luis Manuel, allegedly in charge of providing technical support and communications for the CJNG and signalled as responsible for the publication on the 10th of February of a video, in which the two AIC agents appeared surrounded by armed narco traffickers.

The operations director of transit and public security in Puerto Vallarta, named Ubaldo, and a municipal policeman identified as Carlos Regelio, were both captured in this operation.

"Ubaldo N and Carlos Rogelio N allegedly gave institutional protection to the criminal organization through searches of vehicles and people who were suspected of carrying out activities for the criminal group", said Garcia Harfuch.

"It is alleged that these subjects participated in the illegal deprivation of liberty of the two agents of the AIC on February the 5th in Puerto Vallarta". Of the 18 detainees, 5 are women, and 4 of them were engaged in luring people to safe houses to kidnap them. Two of the detainees are of Colombian nationality. In the next few hours, Seido will define the legal status of the subjects.