In a rehabilitation center, located in the Real de Minas neighborhood, in the municipality of El Rosario, an inmate named José Mario “N”, 23 years old, He left the place allegedly “voluntarily” at the invitation of armed people who arrived at the place.
The municipal authorities rejected the version of the patient’s family in the sense that he was deprived of his freedom under threat from the armed civilians who showed up, after the person in charge of the center said that the inmate left of his own free will.
Given the complaint filed by the family of the young man who was in rehabilitation, elements of the municipal police went to the place to verify, but They reported that he had abandoned him voluntarily, although his relatives point out that armed men took him by force.
In another case, this one in the El Toreo subdivision, in the city of Mazatlán, Gunmen shot at an abandoned former rehabilitation center and set it on fire, so the fire department had to intervene to put out the fire.
The federal authorities that supported the firefighters in their work did not find evidence of injured people since the property stopped operating several months ago as a rehabilitation center.
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Organized crime recruits people into rehabilitation centers
These events were recorded just one day after in the city of Mazatlán, four armed men who sought to recruit followers at the “La Paz” rehabilitation center, in the Jacarandas neighborhood.
When they failed to achieve their objective, they shot at the facilities and set them on fire. The person in charge of the place died and 19 inmates were injured.
Due to these events, Governor Rubén Rocha Moya announced that the inmates of Mazatlán rehabilitation centers that are located in conflictive sectors and protection will be provided.
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