Gustavo Domínguez Saldívar, former director of the Investigative Police (PDI) of Zacatecas, was kidnapped by armed civilians on Thursday night on San Marcos Avenue in the state capital.
The former police chief was outside a business, presumably his own, around 9 p.m. when he was subdued by armed men who forced him into a vehicle.
Attorney General Cristian Paul Camacho Osnaya confirmed the events during a radio interview Friday morning. He stated that the State Attorney General’s Office has already identified a vehicle involved in the kidnapping.
He explained that, through monitoring via the C5i (Coordination, Command, Control, Communications, Computing, and Intelligence Center) video cameras, “we have even identified the direction this vehicle headed,” and reported that the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Combating High-Impact Crimes has opened an investigation.
“As part of the initial ministerial and intelligence investigations, a vehicle related to the events was identified, and operational surveillance and information analysis are ongoing,” the Zacatecas Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement.
At the time of the kidnapping, members of the Mexican Army and various law enforcement agencies deployed an operation in the area of the Las Palmas, Minera, and other surrounding neighborhoods; however, they were unable to locate the victim or the kidnappers.
Camacho Osnaya stated that Gustavo Domínguez’s family “has not received any calls related to any attempt to collect a ransom or negotiate his release.”
The Prosecutor’s Office specified that the victim stopped working at the institution a year and eight months ago. “However, this situation does not limit the operational and intelligence actions that have been deployed to achieve the main objective: the prompt location of the victim.”
Domínguez Saldívar was the director of the Investigative Police (PDI), then called the Ministerial Police, throughout the six-year term of former governor Miguel Alonso Reyes (2010-2016) and part of the five-year term of Alejandro Tello Cristerna until February 2019, when he was relieved of his duties and went on to head the Anti-Kidnapping Unit within the same agency.
In September 2020, it was reported that Gustavo Domínguez had been captured in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, when he was apparently attempting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States, heading for Brownsville, Texas.
Unofficially, it was mentioned that there was an investigation against him for organized crime and illicit enrichment by the then Specialized Unit for Investigating Organized Crime (SEIDO), under the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
However, the Zacatecas Prosecutor’s Office at the time, headed by Francisco Murillo Ruiseco, denied that there was an investigation file or a confirmed arrest.
Source: proceso
