Families demand that police conduct a more extensive search of the town where foe cartels are battling to control migrant smuggling.
The five fled Chihuahua City early on Thursday in various vehicles, but their families lost touch with them.
The Chihuahua Attorney General’s office identified them as Abigael Ramos Gonzalez, Abigael Ramos Torres, Fabian Ramos Torres, Sandra Salais Calzadillas, and Francisco Ivan Flores Hernandez. Some called, texted, or used phone apps at 4 p.m. to show family they were leaving Ojinaga but always made it back to Chihuahua City, according to the AG’s company, which reported the cars left the state funds at 11 a.m.
The family say they located four of the five vehicles- for- use in a vacant lot in Ojinaga, which is about a three- hr drive ( 172 miles ) north of the state funds. The second, also missing car last GPS area was near a house called Alamo El Chapo.
The households claimed they were the people conducting the research because the authorities have been slow to respond in a garden across from the Government Palace on Monday.
” We went to the prosecutors on Saturday to see if they had information, but they said they do n’t work weekends and the elections ( on Sunday ) got in the way”, Pablo Martinez, son of Sandra Salais, said during the protest broadcast on social media. We request that they speed up the search, take note of what we learned, and check the Sentinel ( security camera ) platform’s GPS.
The attorney general’s office announced that it has hired state police officers and Missing Persons Unit professionals to look into the case.
According to Deputy Attorney General Heliodoro Araiza, who spoke to Mexican advertising on Monday, “everything is being investigated” and the four vehicles have been escorted from the lot. He claimed that regulators are n’t ruling out whether the vehicles were bringing people to the border.
Ojinaga sits across the Rio Grande from Presidio, Texas. In October 2021, the city was the subject of a report from the foreign news media that 13 Hispanic migrants were kidnapped and murdered as part of a rival drug cartel’s campaign to handle migrant-smuggling in the Chihuahua City- Ojinaga corridor. Two years later, ten of the bodies were found in a secret grave in the local village of Coyame.
Members of a Twitter group made up of Hispanic entrepreneurs using the Uber and DiDi platforms sent many messages of support for the missing. One, however, posted a warning:” It’s the consequences of carrying undocumented ( people ). It’s a national offense and with the gang it’s a beating – minimum”.
