Mexico rejects that Rubén Rocha Moya has a military security device
The information circulating on social networks about an alleged Army security device for the governor with a license from Sinaloa would be false
The Government of Mexico, through its Security Cabinet, denied that the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, accused by the US of having alleged links to drug trafficking and who remains on leave separated from his position, has “an alleged security device from the Mexican Army.”
The Cabinet warned of the circulation of a video on social networks in which Rocha Moya is allegedly seen moving through the city of Culiacán, the state capital, in a convoy made up of Mexican Army vehicles.
“The information circulating on social networks about an alleged Army security device for the licensed governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, is false,” the agency denied in a message published on its official X account.
The note also explained that the vehicle that appears in the video corresponds to that of the “State Secretary of Public Security, Gen. Sinuhé Téllez López” and that the published images “were captured on July 23, 2026, at the conclusion of the Security Cabinet meeting, during his transfer from the Government Palace to the 9th Military Zone.”
Therefore, the message added, “the device observed is part of the security scheme assigned to the Secretary of Public Security,” thereby denying the possibility that it is a security device assigned to Rocha Moya.
“There is a call to verify the information before sharing it and not to spread false content that generates misinformation,” the Cabinet insisted.
The agency's message comes after journalists and opinion leaders replicated the video on their social networks, arguing that the Army bodyguards were permanently assigned to the care of the official.
On July 9, the Government of Mexico also denied that Rocha Moya was being held in a military installation of the Armed Forces, amid rumors that questioned his current whereabouts.
This became known after the US Department of Justice accused Rocha Moya and nine other state officials in April of collaborating, in exchange for bribes, with the criminal group Los Chapitos, a faction of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.