Abduction in Chetumal Ties to Notorious Criminal Past

Chetumal, Quintana Roo – The Marsella neighborhood in the state capital became the scene of an alarming incident on Friday afternoon after residents reported a white Dodge Journey, license plate URZ-977-L, abandoned in the middle of Enrique Barocio Barrios street, with the engine running and the doors locked. Witnesses stated that the driver was taken from the vehicle and carried away by two armed assailants, with her whereabouts still unknown, triggering alerts and activating a red code.

Traffic Police and State Police units arrived at the site and confirmed that the vehicle remained running and showed no signs of theft. When interviewing neighbors, they indicated they had no further information about the individuals who took the driver or the characteristics of the vehicle in which they fled. Given the severity of the report, the intervention of the Investigation Police was requested.

The verification on Plataforma México confirmed that the unit is registered to Verónica D. B., 34 years old, with an address in the same neighborhood. Authorities also detected that the vehicle was captured hours earlier circulating in front of the Secretariat of Citizen Security. Inside the truck, a cell phone with an incoming call to 911, official documents, and driver’s licenses in the owner’s name were found, evidence that was secured by experts and transferred under chain of custody.

The case gained relevance when two minors, children of the vehicle’s owner, arrived at the location and stated that their mother had not returned home. Minutes later, the director of a kindergarten reported that another minor, also a child of Verónica D. B., had not been picked up from school, confirming that the woman had been missing since hours earlier.

The three minors were attended to by medical and psychological personnel after presenting a nervous crisis upon learning of the alleged deprivation of liberty of their mother. Subsequently, they were transferred by the specialized GEAVIG unit for their protection and location of a family support network, while the case advanced to ministerial instances.

The most impactful information in the file is a fully confirmed fact: Verónica D. B. was the wife of Heriberto “El Diablo” Campos Martínez, former leader of the self-government of the Chetumal Cereso and one of the most well-known and feared criminals in southern Quintana Roo. This link is not a rumor or speculation; it is part of fully documented antecedents and completely changes the context of the case.

Currently, Verónica was in a relationship with José Luis Camacho Solís, an element of the Quintana Roo Ministerial Police, which adds an even more delicate component to the case, crossing lines between the criminal past, security forces, and a disappearance that occurs under highly irregular circumstances.

The State Attorney General’s Office opened the corresponding investigation file for possible illegal deprivation of liberty. Meanwhile, official secrecy contrasts with the gravity of the case, which revives old ghosts of organized crime within the State Attorney General’s Office in the southern zone and exposes how the shadows of the past continue to reach the present in Quintana Roo.