Lara Cruz operated as a police officer in the municipality of Acayucan. In 2016, when the PRI was governor, he attended a Trust Control evaluation at the Police Academy in Veracruz; However, a week later his body appeared, along with that of 21 other people, in a ravine in the Emiliano Zapata municipality.
After investigations, the authorities determined that the police officer was murdered and disappeared by other security elements, who assured that Javier Duarte ordered the hiding of 15 bodies, of the 21 found, which is why they emphasized that this constituted the crime of forced disappearance in the form of hinder the investigation.
Following the decision of the control judge, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) has the opportunity to challenge the decision; Meanwhile, the current governor of Veracruz, Cuitláhuac García, assured that the last word has not been said.
“The last word has not yet been said, they will not get their way,” the president published on his social networks.
Meanwhile, Javier Duarte can request his conditional release, since he was sentenced to nine years in prison for criminal association and money laundering, and he has already served two-thirds of it, since he has been in prison since 2017.
The former president was arrested in April 2017 in Guatemala and two months later he was extradited to Mexico. He is currently imprisoned in the North Prison. In November 2022, a judge ordered him justified preventive detention for the crime of forced disappearance in the case of police officer David Lara Cruz.
