Macabre find in CDMX: they left a body bagged and tied in a taxi

A macabre discovery was recorded on the night of Sunday, April 24, north of Mexico City. Police from the Ministry of Public Security (SSC) found the body of a man in the back seats of a taxi parked in the city hall Gustavo A. Madero.

The body was discovered after residents of the CTM Aragon neighborhood noticed the fetidity of the Mexico City taxi with A3507L circulation plates. The vehicle, a Nissan March, was located at the junction of 679th Street and 604th Avenue.

The police who attended the emergency arrived at the scene and inspected the vehicle. The body was found in the back seats of the car. It was covered with black bags and tied with industrial tape.

The body and taxi were transferred to the GAM-4 Territorial Coordination of the Attorney General's Office. At the moment, the identity of the man is unknown, as well as of the person responsible or those responsible for the murder.

The FGJCDMX seeks to clarify the homicide and who owns the taxi, so far they have not revealed any identity or progress in the investigations.

On March 15, police from the capital's Ministry of Citizen Security (SSC) discovered the body of a man in the trunk of a badly parked car that exuded fetidity.

The body was discovered at approximately 18:00 hours at the junction of Bayoneta and Cerrada Revolución streets, in colony 8 de Agosto, inside a white Mazda with registration number NTX8017. According to the report by journalist Isidro Corro, residents of the area indicated that the car had been abandoned for a week.

A relative of the victim, allegedly her brother, identified the body in the ministerial amphitheater. This is Juan Fernando Ojeda, a criminal lawyer and fifth judge of first instance in the civil branch of the eighth court of the State, who was shot dead.

According to the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City (FGJ-CDMX), five mayors have concentrated the 10 colonies with the highest incidence of the crime of intentional homicide since 2018 to date.

They are Cuauhtémoc, with 3 colonies; Venustiano Carranza, with one; Iztapalapa, with three; Tlalpan, with two; and Coyoacán, with one.

The report notes that the Morelos colony recorded the highest number of victims of intentional homicide, with 125 cases between January 2019 and January 2022, of which 64 cases were recorded in the territory of Cuauhtémoc and 61 in Venustiano Carranza, while the Centro colony recorded 54 intentional homicides in that period of time.

Both colonies, Morelos and Centro, have been one of the main points of operation of the criminal group La Unión de Tepito, where it has influenced the 30 homicides recorded in the Doctores colony, which ranks third in incidence of this crime.

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