Overview
- Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, a former CISEN agent, was detained Saturday in Tijuana at 4:37 p.m. local time, according to the National Detention Registry.
- He is in the custody of the federal prosecutor’s office under a judge’s authority; a federal official told AP he was transferred to a maximum‑security prison in central Mexico.
- The FGR has not issued an official public statement on the new detention, and specific charges had not been disclosed at the time of reporting.
- A January 2024 FGR communiqué cited forensic and witness evidence that the agent’s clothes had Colosio’s blood, he tested positive on the rodizonate test, ballistics indicated two shots seconds apart, and CISEN allegedly moved him out of Tijuana.
- Sánchez Ortega was briefly detained on March 23, 1994 and released the next day by the then‑PGR, while confessed gunman Mario Aburto remains imprisoned for 45 years as rights bodies’ concerns helped spur renewed inquiry.