'El Brilloso' Formally Linked to Trial in Carlos Manzo Assassination, Ordered to High-Security Prison

On September 15, 2026, a control judge formally linked Alexis Jesús Medina García, alias 'El Brilloso' — arrested September 9 in Zapopan, Jalisco — to criminal proceedings for qualified homicide and qualified injuries in the November 1, 2025 assassination of Uruapan, Michoacán mayor Carlos Manzo. The ruling, issued in a closed hearing, ordered mandatory preventive detention (prisión preventiva oficiosa); Medina García will remain at the Centro Penitenciario de Alta Seguridad para Delito de Alto Impacto in Charo, Michoacán, while the Michoacán Attorney General's Office has two months to complete its complementary investigation. Prosecutors allege indicios link him to a Threema messaging group used to plan and monitor the attack, and that he assumed leadership of a CJNG-linked cell in Uruapan operating within the 'Los Rs' structure after the arrest of Jorge Armando Gómez, alias 'El Licenciado.' He is the brother of Cristian Martín Medina García, alias 'El Vikingo,' detained August 7 in the same case.