Overview
- Mexico City police and prosecutors carried out two court-approved searches Friday in Iztapalapa, seizing about 35 tonnes of auto parts tied to an alleged stripping-and-sales network.
- The teams searched two neighboring properties on Calzada Ermita Iztapalapa in the El Santuario area, recovering roughly 30 tonnes at one site and 5 at the other.
- Evidence at the sites included three engines with altered identification numbers, a windshield with a vehicle registry tag, a rear door, State of Mexico plates, and a vehicle registration card.
- Investigators traced the locations after the April 9 arrest of Fernando Velázquez Mancilla, linked by authorities to at least 11 case files, with some outlets reporting ties to the group known as Los Mancilla and to Nissan parts.
- A prosecutor presented the case to a judge before the searches, and the seized parts are now with the Public Ministry, as broader data show only 259 of 15,610 related cases reached a judge over the past year.