The Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office reported on September 10, 2026 that an operation in the municipality of Tecalitlán led to the release of eight people who had been deprived of their liberty and the arrest of six alleged captors, at a property that the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) allegedly used as a safe house and a medical recovery site, according to El Universal.
The case began with the report of the disappearance of a 20-year-old man in San Pedro Tlaquepaque, whose family reported last July that he had left to work at a ranch. The search by the Deputy Prosecutor's Office for Missing Persons led to the property, located in the southern region of Jalisco, near the borders with Colima and Michoacán, and the operation was carried out in coordination with the National Guard and the Secretariat of National Defense. The state prosecutor, Salvador González de los Santos, explained at a press conference covered by Infobae that specialized treatments were being administered at the property to members of the group wounded in clashes. The inquiry into who provided those services opens a line of investigation into health personnel in the region.
The eight rescued individuals, who according to the prosecutor's office had been recruited by the group, are men between 16 and 43 years old, originally from Mexico City, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa and Jalisco. The six detainees, five men and one woman between 21 and 48 years old, were handed over to the judicial authority for their likely responsibility in human trafficking and disappearance. Two of those freed were using crutches and others had surgical nails, a sign that they had undergone surgeries. "We believe that the care they were receiving was highly specialized and we are still investigating to verify who was providing these services," the prosecutor stated.
The Prosecutor's Office keeps the investigation open to determine who was providing the medical care and whether health personnel from the region were involved. The eight freed individuals were transferred to the Guadalajara metropolitan area for medical care and family reunification, while the judicial authority determines the status of the six detainees.
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