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Suspect in recent Playa del Carmen hotel murder captured in Yucatan

Playa del Carmen, Q.R. — The main suspect in a recent Playa del Carmen hotel murder has been arrested in Yucatan. Agents of the State Investigation Police (PEI) of the Public Security Secretariat (SSP) and ministerial agents of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) made the arrest Saturday.

According to SSP Yucatan, the arrest of Alfonso E. V. was made in collaboration with FGE counterparts. He was taken into custody “accused of aggravated homicide committed in Playa del Carmen.”

In their official statement, SSP Yucatan said “Alfonso E. V., alias “Diantre”, 26 years old, originally from Villahermosa, Tabasco and a truck driver by trade, is accused of killing Jorge Enrique U. L., on the 13th of this month in a hotel room in Playa del Carmen.

“According to the investigations, this individual would have hit his victim with a blunt object and against the floor of the room in which they drank alcoholic beverages.”

Authorities reported locating Alfonso E.V. in the neighboring state of Yucatan where he is accused of “trying to evade justice in Quintana Roo by taking refuge in Yucatan.”

He was located and arrested by local Yucatan authorities, who handed him over to the FGE of Quintana Roo Saturday. On September 13, a bloodied hotel guest was found in a Playa del Carmen room. The man, of Mexican nationality, was at the hotel attending an event at the time of his murder.