Cancun, Q.R. — Six people have been charged with extorting more than two dozen drivers from a public transportation company in Cancun. The group had been extorting 27 company drivers since June of 2024.
Police have identified those charged as Lucía Zuleyma “N”, Moisés Arif “N”, Benny Jonathan “N”, Raúl Antonio “N”, Francisco “N” and Ernesto de Jesús “N”.
The events for which they are being investigated began in Cancun in June 2024 when they appeared at a combi base located in Supermanzana 249, to coerce and intimidate the operators, threatening them with firearms to demand the payment of 100 pesos weekly for each driver.
Police said the drivers were “under the warning that if they did not comply with the order, they would take their lives.”
From that date, the victims, a total of 27 combi drivers, were paying, every week, the amount demanded by the group. The money was picked up on Tuesdays and collected from 27 combi drivers.
“If any of them did not pay, they would return later to look for him and threaten him with a firearm,” police said.
“On August 26th of this year, Francisco “N”, accompanied by another individual and Lucía Zuleyma “N”, arrived at the base and told the drivers that from that day forward, they would be handing over the money to the woman, as she would be in charge of collecting “protection money” at that base and others.
“They warned them that they had to do whatever she ordered. From then on, the woman arrived every Tuesday to collect the money and randomly ordered one of the drivers to take her to other bases to collect the payments.”
Police say all six have been linked to the proceedings and also imposed the precautionary measure of preventive detention for the duration of the judicial process against them.
