Michoacán accumulated 30 kidnapping victims between January and August 2026, an average of 3.75 per month, according to the count by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) reported by Quadratín Michoacán on October 9, 2026. The federal registry measures victims, not crimes committed.
Michoacán is one of the states where kidnapping is measured through two official series built on different units and cutoff dates. The SESNSP open data publish state and municipal incidence of common-jurisdiction crimes and victims with a cutoff of August 2026, and define incidence as the investigation files opened. In parallel, the per-municipality dashboard of crimes committed from the State Attorney General's Office counts incidents, not victims, and its cutoff already includes September. For Mexico the contrast matters because comparisons between states depend on the unit of measurement being the same: the federal victim count and the state incident registry cannot be added together.
Of the federal total, 26 victims correspond to extortive kidnapping and four to express kidnapping. The monthly count stays between two and five victims, with April and June at the maximum and February at the minimum. In July the registry consists entirely of express kidnapping, with four victims, while extortive kidnapping falls to zero. The state dashboard distributes 27 incidents across 15 municipalities: Morelia concentrates nine; Uruapan, three; Cuitzeo and Tarímbaro, two each, and eleven municipalities report one incident. On October 9, Aristegui Noticias reported the arrest of 10 people after 12 raids in Morelia, Uruapan and Pátzcuaro for cargo transport robbery and unlawful deprivation of liberty, in an operation by the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, the Secretariat of the Navy and the Attorney General's Office of the Republic.
Both series match from January to May, diverge in June and July, and match again in August, the last month both cover. The SESNSP updates its cutoff every month, so the September series will allow both measurements to be compared over the same period.
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