Juan Manzo, brother of Carlos Manzo, revealed he met Samuel 'N', detained for leaking information to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), at his brother's funeral, where he noticed the suspect's strange behavior. Samuel 'N' was the director of Public Relations in Uruapan and allegedly provided key details on the ex-mayor's movements. This arrest marks progress in the investigation into Manzo's murder.
Juan Manzo, brother of Uruapan's late ex-mayor Carlos Manzo and brother-in-law of Grecia Quiroz, explained in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva that his only contact with Samuel 'N' occurred at his brother's funeral. There, Samuel 'N's attitude seemed out of the ordinary, different from other officials and friends.
“I met him at Carlos's funeral and he did seem like a person with strange behavior, different from all the officials and Carlos's friends. Finally, this ends with his detention,” said Manzo, who works for the Michoacán government.
Samuel 'N', until recently the director of Public Relations and Protocol in Uruapan, was arrested in Michoacán, according to Omar García Harfuch, secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, this Monday. His role as an informant for the CJNG, led in that cell by Jorge Armando 'N', alias 'El Licenciado', involved reporting every movement of Carlos Manzo in exchange for cocaine.
Suspicion about Samuel 'N' arose from the first arrests related to the case. “It was confirmed that information was leaked from a chat among municipal cabinet officials, where details about the event invitation and some specific topics of that day were shared,” Manzo detailed. This leak was investigated over the last two months, now providing relief to officials by clarifying how the murder was facilitated.
Manzo stressed that he did not know Samuel 'N' personally before the funeral and that his behavior had already caught his attention then.
