Federal prosecutors in Mexico have accused police officers, forensic examiners, and state prosecutors in Sinaloa of conspiring to cover up the killing of Héctor Cuén, a political opponent of Governor Rubén Rocha Moya. Officials alleged that Sinaloa authorities manipulated evidence for that purpose, including a blood-stained truck found at the crime scene, to misrepresent the scene of Cuén's death.
The allegations further complicate the political situation for Rocha, a member of President Claudia Sheinbaum's ruling Morena Party. Rocha previously said that Cuén was killed during a botched robbery at a gas station miles away from the original crime scene, a narrative that prosecutors now dispute.
