Mexico-Puebla highway trucker kidnapping sentence, Digi Mart USA News (Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico): A man named Javier will spend 50 years in prison for stealing a tractor-trailer on the Mexico-Puebla highway, near Huejotzingo, and kidnapping the truck’s driver for about an hour and a half.
The crimes took place in May 2024. On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, confirmed the sentence against the man.
He was convicted of unlawful deprivation of liberty in the form of express kidnapping and theft of a vehicle and of cargo from federal freight transport. He must also pay a fine of 434,280 pesos.
According to the report, Javier’s role in the criminal cell was to drive the cargo units. In May 2024, he and three other offenders cut off the victim from a private car on the Mexico-Puebla highway at kilometer 102+300 in Huejotzingo, forcing him to stop.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, which was carrying 12 tons of citrus flavoring bound for Cuautlancingo, was threatened with firearms and forced into the car. While Javier drove the truck toward a safe house, his accomplices abandoned the victim in San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala.
The driver walked several kilometers until he found a National Guard unit, where he asked for help. Later, on the Mexico-Puebla highway, authorities caught up with Javier and recovered the stolen truck.
