Overview
- The federal judge in Puente Grande, who ruled Monday, overturned the FGR’s December 2025 decision to drop the case and ordered investigation file 34/2026 reopened.
- The move came at the request of Sochil Martin and Sharim Guzmán, who filed the 2019 complaint in Mexico and later served as key witnesses in the U.S. case.
- A hearing set for April 16 was delayed because neither side could study a dossier of more than 2,500 pages, and the judge later reviewed the file behind closed doors at the federal prosecutor’s request before ruling.
- García remains in a California prison serving a 16-year, eight-month sentence for sex crimes against minors, and he has not been formally charged in Mexico at this stage.
- The reopened case restores lines of inquiry into an alleged network tied to the church that includes human trafficking, sexual exploitation, child pornography, and money laundering, with officials signaling plans to revive related probes.