Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Extorting Cancún Hotel

Cancún, Quintana Roo — A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for extorting employees of a hotel in Cancún’s hotel zone, prosecutors said.

Gustavo Camacho N. was convicted after the State Prosecutor’s Office proved his involvement in extortion against a hotel company in Benito Juárez, the municipality that includes Cancún.

The crimes took place between August and October 2023. In August, the manager of a hotel on Boulevard Kukulcán began receiving messages on the company phone from a man who identified himself as the person in charge of cigar vendors and demanded that they be allowed inside to sell their products.

The messages included threats to kidnap her, leading the manager to request a transfer to another country out of fear for her safety.

In October of that year, an assistant manager at the same property received extortion messages from the same phone number, demanding 15,000 pesos to “let her work in peace.”

Investigators used phone records, field work, and document analysis to link Camacho to the crime, according to prosecutors.

At the oral trial, the judge handed down a 17-year prison sentence and a fine of 124,488 pesos.