Mexico City.- The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) and the National Guard deployed an operation in Torreón, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio, Durango, to complete at least eight arrest warrants for the Segalmex case.
The deployment, carried out early Thursday morning, would have reached the residences of Ernesto “Güino” Herrera Reza, nephew and collaborator of Leticia Herrera Ale, PRI Mayor of Gómez Palacio and co-owner of the Chilchota dairy company.
However, it was not possible to comply with the arrest warrant for criminal case 111/2023 against him.
Among the arrests that did materialize is that of the lagoon businessman Juan Carlos Burillo González, who is part of Herrera Reza’s team.
Herrera Reza and seven other people are accused of organized crime with the purpose of committing operations with resources of illegal origin.
The arrest warrants were issued by Gregorio Salazar Hernández, District Judge Specialized in the Accusatory Criminal System attached to the Federal Criminal Justice Center in the State of Mexico, based in Almoloya de Juárez.
The federal elements would also have secured weapons, cash and drugs in one of the residences in which they carried out searches in subdivisions such as El Campestre, in Gómez Palacio.
The Mayor of Gómez Palacio, who holds this position for the third time, appointed “Güino” as her general coordinator of the Cabinet last year, at the beginning of her Administration, a position she was continuing this week.
Herrera Reza was initially investigated for illegal negotiations with Segalmex executives in his capacity as owner of the company Comercializadora de Productos Lácteos de la Laguna (Coprolac).
Among the former directors with whom “Güino” negotiated would be Jesús Navarro, former head of Administration and Finance at Segalmex, arrested last Tuesday on charges such as money laundering and organized crime.
The operation by the FGR and the National Guard began at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday without requesting the collaboration of the Attorney General’s Offices of Coahuila and Durango, states governed by PRI members Miguel Riquelme and Esteban Villegas, respectively.
