The investigators had previously carried out a risk analysis to determine the right time to enter enemy territory, said the technical secretary of the Armed Forces Criminal Investigation Subdirectorate, José Cornel.
He assured that the three members of the Public Ministry (MP) were safely released, that they were chained in a house in a forest area and remained so during their detention.
He described how the uniformed men entered on foot without having to fire any shots during Operation 209 “Plan Halcón”, they neutralized the group guarding the place, although without taking any prisoners.
“We have a police contingent in the area in response to the possible reaction of residents, but we hope the situation does not escalate,” he said.
The arrest of the three deputies took place last September in an area called “Window of Death,” highway to Ixchiguán, Tuinimá village, Tajumulco, when the vehicle in which they were traveling was intercepted.
An official report from the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman said they were arrested because they were conducting a field inspection related to the theft of electrical fluids.
Subsequent contact with the kidnappers revealed that they intended to exchange them for three detained individuals accused of ordering and participating in the assassination of Colonel Amílcar Nicolás Bautista.
He died on March 29 of this year while serving residents caught in the crossfire of criminal groups from Ixchiguán and Tajumulco, San Marcos.
Drug cartels operate in both border areas with Mexico, and there have been conflicts over land, the cultivation and cultivation of poppies and marijuana, which are then sent to the neighboring country for processing.
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