Leonardo Octavio Vázquez Pérez, who was Guerrero’s secretary of public security in 2014 when the 43 Ayotzinapa students disappeared, was arrested on October 27 in Tepic, Nayarit.
Vázquez Pérez is accused of organized crime for alleged links to the Guerreros Unidos criminal group, implicated in the Ayotzinapa case.
The detainee was transferred to the Altiplano prison.
The arrest of the former official is part of the more than 80 arrest warrants issued by the FGR around the case of the disappearance of the 43 students.
It was recently announced that the Army, as well as municipal and state authorities, actively participated in the case.
Ayotzinapa Case
The arrest comes after the undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), Alejandro Encinas, acknowledged that “a significant percentage” of evidence from the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, which occurred in 2014, is invalidated.
In an interview with the New York Times, Encinas acknowledged that some of those messages were discarded, because “they do not have enough elements to be accredited.”
“100% sure in this does not exist,” said the official, who nevertheless trusted that the investigations will yield results.
“In all investigations there are successes and there are errors,” concluded the undersecretary.
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