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Crime in Mexico: Police chief and two of her bodyguards beheaded in the state of Michoacán
Alleged hitmen murdered and beheaded a state police commissioner in the western Mexican state of Michoacán
Civil Guard police officers on duty in Michoacán, Mexico. (Free Press Photo: EFE)
Alleged hitmen murdered and beheaded Cristal García Hurtado, a state police commissioner in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, on the night of Sunday, March 17.
The Ministry of Public Security of Michoacán (SSP) reported on Monday the 18th that the police chief was murdered along with a man and two female officers, who acted as her bodyguards.
The triple homicide was recorded around 11:00 p.m. local time on Sunday the 17th (5:00 GMT time on Monday the 18th) on the state highway that connects the Michoacan municipalities of Pátzcuaro and Uruapan, near the Purépecha indigenous town of San Juan. Tumbio.
The bodies of the commissioner and His two bodyguards were found decapitated, with their hands tied and with possible gunshot wounds. on the side of the road where his patrol vehicle was also set on fire.
The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) continued on Monday the 18th to search for evidence at the crime scene, to try to identify those responsible, but reported in a statement that it explored various lines of investigation related to the activities carried out in the region by the personnel of that corporation, “as well as the personal activities they carried out in recent days.”
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Cristal Garcia was in charge of the Pátzcuaro Regional Police Station, which integrates other Michoacanian municipalities such as Ario de Rosales, Erongarícuaro, Huiramba, Lagunillas, Quiroga, Salvador Escalante, Tacambaro and Tzintzuntzan.
Pátzcuaro is located 65 kilometers from the city of Morelia, capital of Michoacán, where state authorities have discovered the operation of drug trafficking organizations calling themselves the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Los Caballeros Templarios and Cárteles Unidos.
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Michoacán has recorded around 400 homicides so far in 2024 related to the fight between drug cartels.
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