Cancun, Q.R. — Police in Cancun have arrested three more people related to the inside murders of Cancun taxi drivers and union members. Julio Adrián “N”, Efraín “N” and Héctor Ismael “N” are the latest detainees in the murders of two city cab drivers and one union member collaborator.
According to authorities, the three men were killed in separated incidences during 2024 for failing to go along with inside organized crime drug sales. On Monday, the FGE of Quintana Roo said the latest arrests bring the total to nine in custody for the 2024 murders.
Julio Adrián “N”, Efraín “N” and Héctor Ismael “N” were arrested in an area adjacent to the Villas del Mar subdivision. They are accused of working with Erik Nain “N”, alias “El Burro”, a man arrested last year in the Prado North subdivision for his involvement in the murders.
“The investigations indicate that Erik Nain “N”, Julio Adrián “N”, Efraín “N” and Héctor Ismael “N”, participated in the qualified homicide of a collaborator of the union, since they would have kidnapped him when he arrived at his house and subsequently shot him to death on October 25, 2024, and then abandoned his body in a green area near the Cancún-Mérida Federal Highway,” Cancun police reported in a statement Monday.
“They are also involved in the murder of two taxi driver brothers whose identity have been withheld, in events that occurred on September 12, 2024, who were killed at the union facilities and whose bodies appeared days later at kilometer 270 of the Cancún-Kantunilkín highway,” they added.
All three were members of the Andrés Quintana Roo Taxi Union in Cancun. Their murders were inside jobs hashed out by fellow union members.
Personnel from the FGE as well as state and federal agencies carried out a search warrant at the Andrés Quintana Roo Taxi Drivers Union on November 4, 2024, in which they found various evidence of the murder of the two operators, the FGE reported.
“The other five people involved are Jonathan Emmanuel “N” arrested on October 31, 2024, Salomón “N”, alias “Mafer” and Óscar Antonio “N” on November 4, Juan Manuel “N” on November 7 and José Rosendo “N” on November 14. The latter was in charge of watching the union collaborator days before the kidnapping to warn when they could abduct him,” police said.
Investigations indicate that Erik Nain “N”, Julio Adrián “N”, Efraín “N” and Héctor Ismael “N” are members of a criminal group dedicated to drug dealing and contract killings in Cancun, police said.
After the search of the Cancun taxi union facilities in November, Cancun taxi drivers referred to their union as a “transport mafia” after the discovery of the drug sales and inside murders.
