Two Police Officers From The Wixárika Community Go Missing: Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from INFOMADOR.MX 

Officers Heriberto Castro Montoya and Ricardo Bautista Hernández had a confrontation with criminals on August 27 and their whereabouts have been unknown since then.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 

Two municipal police officers from Santa María de los Ángeles, in the north of Jalisco, and members of the Wixárika community, have been missing since Tuesday, August 27; the State Attorney General's Office informed that it has opened an investigation and assures that it is maintaining search operations in the region.

The events occurred in the early hours of August 27, when officer Heriberto Castro Montoya, 39, and his partner Ricardo Bautista Hernández, 42, responded to a report about the presence of armed persons on the highway from Santa María de los Ángeles to Huejúcar, at the crossroads leading to the town of Tenasco de Arriba.

Apparently, when the police arrived at the scene, they were shot at by several subjects and a confrontation began, but when they were outnumbered the officers escaped on foot through the zero, however, their whereabouts have been unknown since then.

Casto Montoya is originally from the community of San Andrés Cohamiata, while Bautista Hernández was born in the community of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán, both in the municipality of Mezquitic.

SOURCE: INFOMADOR.MX