Cancún, Quintana Roo — Prosecutors will investigate pawn shops and other businesses that buy goods of dubious origin after confirming that items stolen from a 15-year-old girl during her femicide in the Supermanzana 225 neighborhood were sold at such establishments.
State Attorney General Raciel López Salazar said pawn companies will not be allowed to accept belongings without verifying that the person selling them has the legal right to do so. He said the investigation was prompted by the killing, which has been classified as femicide.
Miguel Salvador “N,” 38, is accused of entering the girl’s home through an open door to steal belongings. When she screamed for help, he grabbed her by the neck and strangled her with his hands and a black cord, according to prosecutors.
An autopsy found the cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation. The attacker fled with a television, a watch and a cellphone. He sold the television and the watch at a pawn shop and sold the cellphone at a phone store for 1,400 pesos, officials said.
The suspect, a neighbor of the victim for three years, has a prior record of sexual offenses. He was arrested within four hours at a park in the area known as El Crucero, with help from C5 surveillance cameras and coordination between investigators and the Secretariat of Citizen Security.
Miguel Salvador “N,” originally from Tabasco, has been formally charged with femicide. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of up to 50 years in prison.
