Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Q.R. — Two suspects wanted in the stabbing deaths of two municipality of Felipe Carrillo Puerto men have been captured. The pair were arrested Wednesday after being on the run for more than a month.
The men are accused of stabbing two Tuzik residents to death on September 11 of this year. After failed attempts at locating them, the State Attorney General offered a reward for information on their whereabouts on September 27. Authorities were offering 200,000 pesos for information leading to their location and/or arrests.
On Thursday, the FGE said Jairo “N” and Rigoberto Jesús “N” had been captured. The pair are being held “for their alleged participation in events that could constitute the crime of qualified homicide against two victims in events that occurred in the community of Tuzik in this municipality, On September 11 of this year.”
After the double murder, the pair are accused of fleeing into nearby jungle then grabbing a taxi to a relative’s house where they were helped. According to the FGE, that relative helped to hole them up in an abandoned building until their recent arrests.
“After committing the crime, they fled to a jungle area and then headed to the Felipe Carrillo Puerto-Valladolid federal highway from where they took a taxi to the home of a relative in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, who hid them in an abandoned house and kept them incommunicado.
“After more than a month of being in that place, the accused were arrested by elements of the Investigative Police of the State Attorney General’s Office.”
Both suspects are being held in the Social Reintegration Center of Chetumal. The FGE did not say if the relative who helped hide them would be charged.
