Overview
- The Fiscalía General del Estado published a search-and-reward card offering 100,000 pesos for information to locate José Manuel Jiménez Miranda, the agency announced Wednesday.
- Investigators say there is a presumption that Jiménez Miranda had the firearm used by the suspected shooter and that he fired the weapon at an adolescent before the mayor was killed.
- Jiménez Miranda has been a fugitive since the November 2025 assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo and the FGE has extended the search nationwide while urging the public to report tips through official channels.
- The suspect is a retired Army colonel who served briefly as Uruapan’s security secretary and later as Manzo’s chief of escorts, and he left a municipal post months earlier after reports of domestic violence.
- Prosecutors have already detained several municipal officers in the probe and say the new ficha is meant to widen leads, clarify what failed in local protection and test links between the attack and recent cartel tensions in Uruapan.