Jake and Callum Robinson, along with Jack Carter Rhoad, who went missing in Baja in May.
Mexican law enforcement officials announced a new arrest in the investigation of the murders of Jake and Callum Robinson of Australia and Jack Carter Rhoad of San Diego Tuesday. The arrest comes two months after a suspect known as Gerardo “N,” whose nickname was “El Kekas,” was apprehended along with two other people involved in the May crime.
At the time, officials declared that the murders were the result of a robbery in which the perpetrators had targeted the three traveling surfers’ truck for its tires as well as their electronics. According to California Attorney General Maria Elena Andrade Ramírez, one of the three surfers refused to give up his truck’s tires.
“One of the assailants pulled out a firearm and shot him,” she said. “The other two jumped in to intervene but were also shot.”
A report by the Daily Beast alleged back in May that the Sinaloa cartel tipped Ensenada police off to the suspects that were first arrested in connection to the crime(s). Jesús Gerardo “N” was arrested and charged with “forced disappearance” at the time but a murder charge has been added since. Multiple outlets reported a fourth arrest had finally been made in late June, although no details of the identity or charges were shared at the time.
Tuesday’s announcement from the Baja California Citizen Security Secretariat (SSCBC) revealed the recent arrest of Ángel Jesús “N.”
“Close communication and inter-institutional coordination between the Baja California Citizen Security Secretariat and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) allowed agents of the K-9 Unit of the State Citizen Security Force (FESC) to arrest a man suspected of being involved in the crime of homicide, committed against three people of foreign origin who were carrying out tourist activities in the municipality of Ensenada,” the Secretary of Citizen Security of Baja California wrote in a statement.
No further details of charges or the evidence that connected Ángel Jesús to the murders were shared.
