A few days after the tragic event in the city of Salamanca, where an armed group murdered 11 people at a soccer field, authorities in Guanajuato announced the arrest of three people The Guanajuato State Secretariat of Security and Peace reported that the arrests were the result of coordinated and targeted operations deployed in various municipalities of the region. The agency explained that specific details of the arrests, as well as the detainees' participation, will be released later, in order not to jeopardize the ongoing investigations. However, it maintained that the case “will not go unpunished” and that the authorities' actions are aimed at identifying, locating, arresting, and bringing those responsible to justice. One of the lines of investigation by the Guanajuato Prosecutor's Office is focused on the dispute between the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) over the gasoline pipelines that run through the area. Unofficially, a version is circulating that the 5 private security agents who are among the 11 fatalities of the massacre They were linked to the CJNG.

Previously, the governor of Guanajuato, Libya Dennise Garcia Munoz Ledo, stated that there had been “clear progress in the lines of investigation regarding the events and motivations,” and emphasized her commitment to ensuring justice for all the victims.

The investigations pointed to the participation of Moises Soto Bermudez, who led the shock group known as “Los Marros,” a criminal cell of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel that operates under the command of Mario Eleazar Lara Belman, alias “El Negro.”