19-year-old Abisaí Aguilar Padilla was arrested and is currently in prison in Jalisco, facing the possibility of spending many years behind bars. It is being investigated whether he is part of a line of young people recruited by the CJNG, allegedly linked to a torture camp in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, where around 400 people are suspected to have disappeared and been incinerated.
Authorities have a list of more than 20 individuals with stories similar to Abisaí's, who disappeared at the Tlaquepaque bus terminal in Jalisco under fraudulent job offers. Abisaí's family lived eight months of uncertainty and anguish, unaware of his whereabouts since he left his grandparents' house in July 2024 after receiving a tempting job offer on social media.
Margarita Padilla, Abisaí's mother, filed a complaint with the Nayarit attorney general's office upon noticing his absence. After an intense search, it was revealed that the young man had been recruited by the CJNG, being detained along with three other people in Ahuisculco, Tala, Jalisco. Abisaí is currently on trial for possession of weapons, grenades, ballistic vests, and other equipment, and is confined in the Puente Grande penitentiary complex in Jalisco.
Abisaí's family, who came to fear the worst, finally discovered his whereabouts after the detention and involvement in criminal proceedings by the Attorney General's Office of the Republic. The young man, hopeful about the possibility of offering a better life to his mother and sister, fell into the recruitment networks of the CJNG in July 2024, thus starting an unfortunate chain of events.
