Overview
- The Fiscalía General del Estado of Tabasco formally requested a cumulative 154‑year prison term in a hearing on Monday, June 15, 2026, specifying 100 years for aggravated kidnapping, 30 years for aggravated extortion and 24 years for organized‑crime association.
- The June 15 hearing was suspended after Bermúdez’s defense invoked a pending amparo and lawyers left the courthouse, leaving the request paused while the judge resolves procedural issues.
- Bermúdez remains held at the federal Altiplano prison and took part in the Villahermosa hearing by video link; he was arrested in Paraguay in September 2025 and repatriated to Mexico.
- Prosecutors presented intelligence reports and multiple investigative files alleging that Bermúdez used his former post in Tabasco’s security office to protect and facilitate the criminal group known as La Barredora.
- The 154‑year figure is an aggregate prosecutorial demand, not a sentence, and next steps include judicial rulings on the amparo, the admissibility of evidence, and whether fines or a 10‑year ban on public office will be applied.