During the arrest, the regulatory weapon was held to the murderer with his charger that belonged to the victim.
Lima, Peru-The Ministry of Interior (Minint) of the Cuban regime reported on the capture of the alleged murderer of Leonel Mesa Rodríguez, police and 62-year-old sector head who was found dead this Friday on the Remedios-Caibarién highway.
“As part of the investigative actions carried out from the moment of the fact, combined forces of the Minint they captured at 4:45 p.m. this Saturday in the city of Remedios, the individual who caused the death of the captain of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) Leonel Mesa Rodríguez, head of the sector of the Caibarién municipality,” says the page of the official entity On Facebook.
According to the publication, during the detention the regulatory weapon was occupied with his charger, belonging to the deceased officer, as well as the white weapon used in the consummation of the criminal act.
“The detainee will be submitted to the corresponding criminal process, with the rigor established by revolutionary justice and according to the magnitude and severity of the act committed,” warns the note.
The uniformed policeman It appeared dead This September 19 on the aforementioned Villa Villa Clara, just before reaching the Waterloo curve, he confirmed Cubanet With witnesses and videos.
In two recordings to which this medium had access, the agent of the bloody and laying PNR is observed in the middle of the road while other officers divert traffic.
“He had a shot in the middle of his forehead and several stabs in his chest,” he said to Cubanet A witness.
In another video a bus driver is heard to report that he had seen Mesa Rodríguez talking hours before with someone on the side of the same road.
Less than a month ago, the Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit (OCAC), initiative of the Cuba Century Ideas Laboratory, warned about an unpublished climb of insecurity on the island.
According to the study, the average of daily crimes went from 3.6 in 2024 to more than seven in the first half of this year, reflecting what researchers qualify as an “unprecedented criminal diversification”. The investigators also indicated that at least 35 crimes were linked to firearms, which reflects a growing proliferation of lethal weapons in Cuban society.
