Irene Sanchez
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, p. 4
Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Governor Rubén Rocha Moya said that he was never informed that José Rosario Heras López, an investigative police officer in the state prosecutor’s office, was in charge of the security of drug trafficker Ismael The May Zambada, as confirmed by the institution itself.
“The prosecutor’s office does not depend on me (…) I can hardly know what the state police, the preventive police and the other (state corporations) do. But in this case nobody could have told me: ‘Hey, look, there is a state police officer who is doing this’. Well, nobody had informed me, it was a bad idea, measures must be taken in this regard,” the president declared yesterday at his weekly press conference.
In the statement in which he recounted how he was allegedly deceived, kidnapped and then handed over to US authorities, The May Zambada mentioned that he would attend a supposed meeting with Joaquín Guzmán López, Rocha Moya and Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, accompanied by José Rosario Heras, a prosecutor’s official who is currently missing, and by an individual named Rodolfo Chaidez.
In a statement, the Sinaloa prosecutor’s office announced that Heras López’s family filed a complaint on July 28 for his disappearance that occurred on July 25, when he went to visit his parents in the municipality of Culiacancito.
On the other hand, Rocha Moya denied that his departure from Mexico on July 25 had anything to do with the arrest of Ismael The May Zambada, which occurred that same day. He said he traveled to the United States because The government was on vacation, so I decided to go away for three or four days. Why am I going to the United States? I’m going to see some relatives.
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Regarding the alleged meeting to which he was invited along with The May Zambada and Cuén Ojeda, pointed out: so that speculation does not spread in that regard. I was not aware of that meeting, nor was I invited, nor of course did I attend.
the state leader concluded.
