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Patrol of the prosecutor’s office of Jalisco.

Editor. – José Luis R. was arrested Feb. 14 in Jocotepec by officers  of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office due to his probable participation in the crimes of domestic violence and intentional injuries. 

According to prosecutors, José Luis R. assaulted his partner and accused her of stealing money from him. When the children tried to intervene, they were also assaulted. The victim’s sister was threatened with a machete.

An agent of the Public Prosecutor’s Office investigated the incident as a gender crime and gained enough evidence to request an arrest warrant against the man.

Translated by Mike Rogers

Bags seized from the suspect.

Editor (Chapala).- A man was arrested in Ajijic after 14 doses of the drug known as «crystal» were found on him. The person was detained by the State Security Secretariat (SSE) on the Guadalajara Chapala highway.

State police officers driving along the Chapala-Jocotepec highway received a report of a bicyclist who was allegedly selling drugs.

The officers quickly identified a man who fit the description. As the police car passed the bicyclist he tried to evade them.   22 year old Josué «N» was arrested when the police found 14 small bags of the drug known as «crystal.”

Translated by Nita Rudy

Patrol of the prosecutor’s office of Jalisco.

Julio César was arrested by the Investigation Police of the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, after a warrant was issued for his arrest for aggravated child sexual abuse.

The suspect has been accused of committing the abuse against a female minor in July 2020. This incident allegedly occurred in the delegation of Las Trojes, in Jocotepec. 

Officers of the Investigation Police of District V arrested him and placed him in custody at the Specialized Judge in Control, Prosecution, Integral Justice for Adolescents and Penal Execution of the Fifth Judicial District with headquarters in Chapala. He will be prosecuted accordingly. 

Translated by Christalle Dalsted

Sand and stone on the bridge in the Alceseca area obstruct the stream channel.

Sofía Medeles.- Several streams from La Canacinta to La Cristina in west Ajijic are still clogged with debris as a result of the landslides that occurred in October 2021.

When Semanario Laguna toured the  area recently, it was observed that there  are still boulders and debris, covered with earth blocking drainage channels and streets after the landslide.

In La Cristina, the creek bridge is filled with large stones.

Neighbors in the area said that they fear the obstructions could cause future flooding that could affect the houses closest to the watercourses.María, a resident who lives a few houses away from the creek that runs through La Canacinta was worried.

«Apart from the fact that the creek has been narrowed, it has not even been cleaned, on the south side of the road, it is very even, so, if several heavy rains fall, it could overflow. On the upper part of the road, it is not even a meter and a half wide for the water to flow. If the water flows strongly, it will move the debris, and God knows where it will end up, which could affect the people on the street of La Canacinta,» she shared.

Another neighbor, José, commented that he is not only concerned about the blockage, but also about the dust generated by the traffic, which should be another important point to be considered by the authorities in order to resume and speed up the cleaning works. 

«With this disease that we are going through (Covid-19), it is unhealthy that we are breathing dust, because it weakens our lungs even more, and can put us in a delicate health situation,» she said.  

Likewise, Lourdes, who lives next to the La Canacinta stream, and has a property in La Cristina, close to another of the disaster points, expressed that, although it seems that the rainy season is still far away, public works like this are not a one-day project, so they should get down to work.

La Canacinta creek, outside the Los Alebrijes subdivision, has less than five feet of opening.

«It is not just one creek that is like this, there are many and several with serious clogging. It is of little use to clean only the parts on the south side of the highway, if there is no water flow under the bridges,» said Lourdes.

Maximiliano Macías Arceo, the Ajijic acting delegate i, commented that some of the streams have already been widened, however, they are still in the process of getting permit approval so they can move in the machinery that will be necessary to clear the waterways in the town, especially in the western part of the delegation.

The director of Social Communication, Elizabeth Oropeza Silva, commented that since November, they have been pushing the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) to provide them with the appropriate machinery to carry out the clearing of the ditches, which she claimed, need to do the maintenance from the road to the foot of the hill.

Translated by Maryanne Marble

Protección Civil y Bomberos de Chapala atendieron la emergencia el pasado seis de febrero.  

Redacción. – Un hombre de la población de San Juan Tecomatlán, municipio de Poncitlán fue rescatado del suicidio por personal de Protección Civil y Bomberos de Chapala cuando éste pretendía saltar del puente peatonal que se ubica sobre la carretera Chapala – Guadalajara, al ingreso de la cabecera municipal.

El masculino de quien no se tiene mayor referencia, fue bajado del puente del que pretendía saltar por el personal de Protección Civil, luego de que lograran disuadirlo utilizando los primeros auxilios psicológicos de emergencia. 

La persona rescatada quedó al cuidado de su madre cuando terminó la emergencia, durante la tarde del domingo seis de febrero.

Jocotepec’s Highway Department attended the accident.

A collision occurred at the access to the Jocotepec beltway during midday on January 26, leaving two vehicles damaged.  

One of the affected vehicles

The area where the accident occurred has unstable asphalt which causes motorists to get out of control, in addition, there are no signs or signage at the intersection to instruct drivers who do not know the area.  

Translated by Kerry Watson

The red SUV damaged in the accident.

A head-on collision occurred in Ajijic on the Chapala-Jocotepec highway, between Rio Bravo and Seis Esquinas, in the area of the speed bumps. A red Audi SUV and a white Dodge pickup were involved in the accident. According to reports, the driver of the white pickup left the scene of the accident.

The white pickup that allegedly caused the collision

The accident was attended by traffic police, while traffic was held up due to the accident.

Translated by Christalle Dalsted

Truck of the state prosecutor’s office of the state of Jalisco. Illustrative picture 

Juan Gabriel «N» was arrested in San Nicolás de Ibarra on charges of domestic violence and aggravated injury. The arrest was made by members of the Jalisco District Attorney’s Office.

The man was captured when he was on Francisco I. Madero Street and Obregón Street in the town of San Nicolás de Ibarra, in Chapala. The arrest is related to events that were reported to the Prosecutor’s Office in 2021.

Translated by Kerry Watson

The vehicles came close to colliding head-on.

Once again there was an accident on the Guadalajara-Morelia highway on the El Molino – Jocotepec stretch, involving two vehicles that came close to colliding head-on.  

The accident occurred during the morning of Sunday, January 23, and caused traffic chaos at the point where the highway changes from four to two narrow lanes, which are also in poor condition. Just a week before this collision, there was a serious accident in which three people lost their lives, including a two year old child.

Translated by Rebecca Zittle

Schools in the municipality are worried about the situation of contagions after the festivities of Señor del Monte. Photo: Courtesy. 

Héctor Ruiz Mejía.- Covid contagions persist in the schools of the municipality of Jocotepec, after the second week of the return to classes, according to educational authorities.

It’s «worrying and difficult,” described Mayra Berenice García, director of the elementary school J. Vicente Negrete, located in the delegation of El Molina, where contagions among children have been increasing.

From the 70 percent attendance rate at the beginning of the week of January 17, the figure dropped to 50 percent for the second week, said the director.

Of the 300 children who make up the total student body, at least seven or eight tested positive for the coronavirus. The first grade classroom was the most affected and had to suspend classes for a week.

In addition, other children have presented respiratory symptoms; however, they don’t have access to COVID-19 tests, since these cost between 500 and 600 pesos and not many parents can afford them, so they have been considered as only suspected cases.

Therefore, according to the teacher, the number of infections among students is uncertain and although she expressed that the outlook for the next two weeks after the festivities is alarming, the Ministry of Education of Jalisco (SEJ) has been unyielding in its decision to return to the classroom.

Only three percent of the 300 children at the J. Vicente Negrete school have some form of Social Security. Photo: Courtesy.

«Unfortunately, to the educational authorities our opinion does not count, but at least we can demand that they do their job,» commented another of the directors, explaining that the sanitation protocol is deficient. 

The teachers explained that, when a case is detected, it has to be reported to Health Region IV Ciénega-La Barca, which for federal zone 90 covers the towns of Nextipac, the municipal seat, Los Trojes, El Molino and San Luciano, among other delegations. But they never answer.

And when they do, they explained, the only answer is that classes cannot be suspended and that they have to continue with the same health protocols. The situation is further complicated by the fact that in El Molino the health system is almost null, as well as the testing system. 

Since only three percent of the 300 children have some type of Social Security thanks to their parents, this means that only nine children in the entire school have decent access to health care.

Translated by Sandy Britton