Overview
- Hernán Bermúdez Requena, a former state security chief accused of leading the group La Barredora, was presented to a control judge Tuesday after Tabasco prosecutors executed a new arrest warrant for forced disappearance.
- The judge kept him in preventive detention and set a follow-up hearing for Saturday, April 4, to decide if he will be formally sent to trial on this charge.
- State prosecutors say the disappearance investigation has led to 19 arrest warrants, with 10 people already bound over for trial.
- Bermúdez remains at the federal Altiplano prison, where he has been held since his return from a September 2025 arrest in Paraguay, while he also faces cases for extortion, aggravated kidnapping, and organized crime.
- The new count raises his total to three reported arrest orders, and Tabasco Governor Javier May said more charges could be added as state and federal investigations continue.