Va afegir, en una conferència de premsa a Acapulco, que "fou el director de Seguretat Pública d'Iguala, Francisco Salgado Valladares, qui va ordenar detenir els estudiants normalistes d'Ayotzinapa, i un individu conegut com a El Chuky, del grup delictiu Guerreros Unidos, n'hauria ordenat el segrest i l'assassinat".
Later on during a press conference in Acapulco, he added that it was the "Director of Public Security of Iguala Francisco Salgado Valladares who gave the order to detain the student teachers from Ayotzinapa; and an individual known as 'El Chuky' from the criminal group Guerreros Unidos would have ordered the kidnap and murder of the young students."