Overview
- Michoacán state prosecutors executed an in-prison arrest warrant on January 28 at El Altiplano to pursue charges over the October 2025 killing of citrus leader Bernardo Bravo.
- In a January 29 hearing, investigators outlined genetic matches tying blood on a seized pair of jeans, a Toyota Tacoma pickup, and a searched property to Bravo, along with soil and tire-track analyses linking the vehicle to the route used to move the body.
- A crime-scene reconstruction placed Bravo with César Sepúlveda and alleged accomplice Jonathan “El Timbas” at a ranch where Bravo was shot in the head, with his body later transported in his pickup and abandoned near San Juan de los Plátanos–Tepetates.
- A witness identified as Miguel Emmanuel testified he was coerced to join Los Blancos de Troya and recounted an alleged confession by Sepúlveda to killing Bravo, also identifying operatives nicknamed El Perfumado and El Timbas.
- Sepúlveda was captured on January 22 in a joint federal-state operation and is already facing federal organized-crime and weapons charges with preventive detention and seven outstanding local warrants, as security forces maintain operations in Tierra Caliente.