Mexican journalist found dead with sinister note after reporting on cartel boss arrest
The murdered body of a Mexican journalist who covered drug cartels was found wrapped in a blanket along a highway — with an ominous note accusing him of “spreading false accusations.”
The remains of Miguel Angel Beltran were discovered Saturday on a stretch of highway that connects the northwest state of Durango with the Pacific coast resort city of Mazatlan in the notoriously dangerous Sinaloa state, according to local reports.
The grisly discovery was accompanied by a threatening note that read, “For spreading false accusations against the people of Durango.”
The former print journalist had been posting his reports online from a TikTok account under the name “Capo,” and on local news outlet La Gazzetta Durango’s Facebook page, according to AFP.
In one of his final social media posts just days before he was found dead, Beltran reported that a leader of the Cabrera Sarabia gang — a rival of the infamous Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartels that operate in Durango — had been arrested.
“Let’s not rule out the possibility that violence will erupt even more in the state of Durango, and in the city in particular,” he said on a post on social media, according to Mexican news outlets.