Suspect arrested in case of Tulum security chief’s assassination

The lawyer wide of Quintana Roo revealed connected Monday that a 42-year-old antheral fishy was arrested past Thursday successful transportation with the execution of the constabulary main successful the Caribbean seashore edifice municipality of Tulum.

José Roberto Rodríguez Bautista, a Navy skipper turned information chief, was changeable successful Tulum connected March 21 and died successful infirmary connected the greeting of Saturday March 22.

Tulum Security Minister José Roberto Rodríguez Bautista was changeable connected March 21 and died the adjacent day. (Cuartoscuro)

Quintana Roo Attorney General Raciel López told a property league that authorities and national authorities arrested Alejandro “N,” alias “El Rayo,” successful Veracruz metropolis for his alleged engagement successful the execution of the municipal information chief.

He said that the fishy is from Taxco, Guerrero, and is simply a subordinate of a transgression group.

“He participated successful the homicide of the municipal caput of nationalist security,” said López, who noted that authorities determined that aft the Tulum shooting, the fishy fled to Tampico, Tamaulipas, earlier traveling to Veracruz.

Another gunmen, a Guatemalan nationalist known arsenic “El Chaparro,” “El Guatemalteco” and “El Kaibil,” was killed by a bodyguard aft helium allegedly fired the slug that yet took the beingness of Rodríguez. “El Guatemalteco” and “El Rayo” were connected a motorbike erstwhile they allegedly attacked the information minister.

The lawyer wide said that “El Rayo” acted connected the instructions of a transgression person from the bluish authorities of Tamaulipas to termination Rodríguez.

He said that the transgression person was aggravated astir the enactment Rodríguez carried retired portion a subordinate of the authorities constabulary of Colima, including his information successful a hunt cognition adjacent the borderline with Jalisco.

López described the detained fishy arsenic a “dangerous individual” who is linked to much than 100 murders perpetrated successful the northbound of Mexico.

He said that “El Rayo” planned the execution with 8 different sicarios, oregon hired assassins, including “El Guatemalteco.”

López said that the homicide was “very good planned,” explaining that Rodríguez and applicable societal media accounts were monitored for astir 5 months earlier the information curate was killed successful bid to find things specified arsenic his day-to-day movements, the fig of bodyguards helium had and what nationalist events helium would beryllium attending.

He besides said that criminals attempted to execution the information curate connected six antithetic occasions.

“El Rayo” is allegedly portion of a transgression radical that monitored the constabulary chief’s societal media for months starring up to the assassination. (FGE Quintana Roo)

“Due to assorted circumstances they didn’t execute their objective,” López said.

After his arrest, Alejandro “N” was flown to Cancún, wherever a justice ordered helium beryllium placed successful preventive detention connected homicide charges.

If recovered guilty, helium faces a condemnation of up to 50 years successful prison. López said that authorities are seeking to apprehension those who allegedly collaborated with the detained fishy successful the readying of the homicide successful Tulum.

“In Quintana Roo, helium who commits a transgression of this quality volition look the consequences,” helium said.

With reports from López-Dóriga Digital, El Universal and Milenio