Former Culiacán Mayor Héctor Cuén Ojeda Found Dead

Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, former mayor of Culiacán and rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, is found dead the same day as Mayo's capture. Official state narrative claims a single gunshot in a gas station robbery. Federal investigators later find forensic evidence — four bullets to the head, severe bruising, blood at Huertos del Pedregal ranch — that directly contradicts the official account and supports Zambada's version that Cuén died at the kidnapping ambush site.