A person very close to Facundo Teófilo M. R. confessed during an official police interrogation that his 64-year-old relative suffers from diabetes, a hernia in his stomach that has significantly reduced his quality of life, and swollen feet from decades of carrying bodies in work facilities lacking gas, electricity, water, or refrigeration.
Facundo was a pseudo-“manager” with a “miserable salary” at the Plenitud “crematory,” the one that has achieved shameful worldwide fame because 383 bodies were dumped there, whose relatives had already held wakes for them; the Catholics had prayed their rigorous novena; some had been sent off amid tears, sadness, holy water, and even music; and of course, they had paid large sums for the funeral services, culminating in cremation. While all the relatives of all those dead were certain that their souls “rested in peace,” and that they had done everything earthly necessary to help achieve that goal, elsewhere there was only profit-driven thinking, greed that was even irrational, without moral, legal, and even less religious limits.
It turned out that the businessman responsible for providing the cremation service for the deceased had taken all those bodies and literally thrown them into warehouses filled with insects and mice. This is how the municipal, ministerial, and forensic police officers who responded to the grim, traumatizing, and unscrupulous scene described it.
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Corpses of the elderly, adult women, young women, men; children’s bodies… all piled on top of each other, exposed to heat, cold, and rats. The images El Diario had access to are shocking.
Even with his age and multiple illnesses, Facundo had to be subjected to forceful protocols by ministerial police officers, whom he tried to attack and from whom he attempted to escape when, during the initial interrogation, he began to contradict himself, all in order to protect his boss and business owner, José Luis A.C., a member of a family known as “Los Cuarón,” high-profile businessmen in the city.
First, he claimed that there “couldn’t be” more than 80 bodies in the area known as the Granjas Polo Gamboa neighborhood, located on Chihuahua and Querétaro streets; later, he claimed to have counted 160. He later claimed that Plenitud operated legally but acknowledged that he didn’t have a record of entry and exit. He was eventually arrested. He was the “manager” of the place, whose gate was only opened to enter and dump human bodies.
A close relative of the owner, José Luis, tried to minimize her family’s responsibility, placing almost all the blame on Facundo. He told the police that the crematorium owner only contacted funeral homes to sell the “service” and that the incinerator was managed by the employee, who didn’t answer the phone, sometimes didn’t show up for work, and that he was the one who was “occasionally” late in cremating the bodies.
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The half-truths and outright lies fell flat. José Luis sought to take precautions before the State Commission for Sanitary Risks (Coespris), whose offices in Pueblito Mexicano he visited to insist on distancing himself from the snowball that was falling on him.
It wasn’t just him; his legal defense also concluded in the binding hearing held almost all day on Friday that Coespris should have paid attention to the incinerator facility after having issued sanction reports in 2020 and 2022. There, too, the irregularities are undeniable. Agents from the Northern District Attorney’s Office were already on the owner’s trail for the first “interview.” They were there at eleven in the morning on June 27th, trying to piece together the macabre puzzle at Granjas Polo Gamboa.
At three in the afternoon, they were notified that their main target for clarification of the plot was in Pueblito Mexicano. Sirens blaring, they came after him and asked him to accompany them to the Attorney General’s Office, on the Juan Gabriel Boulevard.
Like Facundo Teófilo, José Luis simply revealed that he provides crematorium services to the Luz Divina, Capillas Protecto Deco, Ramírez, Latinoamericana, and Amor Eterno funeral homes. He then erupted in arrogance, anger, and aggressive behavior when the officers calmly questioned him about the unprecedented number of bodies piled up at the crematorium…for years. He was arrested after attempting to assault a female police officer and refusing to answer any further. Finally, both detainees were charged by Judge Apolinar Juárez Castro two days after their arrest for the crimes of concealment of corpses and violations of the General Health Law, acts committed between March 2022 and June 27, 2025. The crimes from 2022 onward remain to be added, as complete remains were also found.
This Friday, they were charged with “silently” keeping hundreds of bodies without notifying the authorities, failing to cremate them in a timely manner, and “undignifiedly overcrowding” them in a space not designated for storage. They are now charged with concealing and illegally preserving bodies. They were held in State Prison 3, where the vast majority of the inmates belong to criminal groups, kidnappers, extortionists, and murderers, whose victims necessarily also passed through funeral homes with which the Cuarones “worked.”
Now, the Prosecutor’s Office will have until January 4 of next year to submit to the judges the entire body of evidence from all the police investigations carried out and begin the corresponding trial; up to 17 years in prison are estimated.
The report presented here, and much more, with testimony from relatives of the detainees, municipal police officers who almost by chance discovered the head of a body sticking out of the trunk of an abandoned hearse, ministerial police officers, and Coespris officials (such are the crude testimonies about the dead piled mercilessly like food for rodents and insects). The case had been directed not toward the indictment decreed by Judge Apolinar, but rather, toned down to a minimum by another judge we discussed earlier this week in La Columna, Antonio Coss Araujo.
The public prosecutors, Francisco Javier Rosas Esquivel, Areli Pérez Soto, and Javier Barrón Núñez, social representatives since the charges were filed, were widely acknowledged by relatives of the deceased whose bodies suffered the mistreatment described in Plenitud and by their superiors at the Attorney General’s Office and the northern district. However, the story would be very different with the opinion prepared by the judge on duty for the case, Coss. This judge should have reconsidered his decision because, from the outset, he suspiciously delayed the arrest warrants until moments when they could practically be executed by the ministerial police. He “given” them an hour before the deadline.
And once Facundo and José Luis were arrested, Coss Araujo, at the arraignment hearing, at least granted them bail because the second point of his ruling only considered violations of the State Penal Code regarding burial, exhumation, and (lack of) respect for corpses or human remains. However, he declared himself incompetent, without reasoning, to issue the warrant for violations of Article 462 of the General Health Law.
On July 4th, not only would the United States have celebrated its independence, but also those accused of deceiving the families of the 383 dead by handing over something, still unknown, such as the ashes of their relatives.
Even worse, Judge Coss failed to consider the more than reasonable doubt raised by the Prosecutor’s Office: “Likewise, it is clear that the conditions in which the 383 human bodies were found could lead to the possibility of other criminal conduct, given that, to date, the cause of death of each of the bodies found inside the establishment is uncertain. This could objectively influence the defendants’ desire to evade justice in the face of the legal consequences they could face.”
Judge Coss did not even take this into account, which could possibly lead him to face internal disciplinary proceedings within the Judiciary.
It is obvious that he tried to protect the owner or owners of the infamous business, and if he succeeded, today we would be talking about a major scandal highlighted by the Catholic Church, human rights commissions, and even the United Nations.
Source: diario
