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Saturday 07 of December 2024

In Michoacán, basketball player Alexis Cervantes is found alive


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The player Alexis Cervantes is a native of Guasave, Sinaloa, but went to Los Reyes, Michoacán, to participate in a sporting event.

The governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedoya, reported through his Twitter account that basketball player Alexis Cervantes was found alive.

“Good morning, I inform you that as a result of the search operation in which the @FGR_Mich, the @SSeguridad_Mich and the @GN_MEXICO_ participated, basketball player Alexis Cervantes and taxi driver Marcos Sandoval Julián were found alive, I hope they can be reunited with their families soon,” The Michoacan president expressed through the social network.

The athlete was found, according to media reports, in the municipality of Venustiano Carranza of the Michoacan entity.

Alexis Cervantes had been missing since last December 21. The National Professional Basketball League had requested help to find the whereabouts of the athlete.

The Michoacán Prosecutor’s Office acknowledged that only on December 26 began the investigations to locate the athlete and the taxi driver named Marco Sandoval, who would transfer the game from the municipality of Los Reyes to the city of Guadalajara.

The institution explained that it had information that the basketball player boarded a taxi in the vicinity of the bus station of the municipality of Los Reyes, it was in that place where he was last seen.

The player is from Guasave, Sinaloa, but went to Los Reyes, Michoacán, to participate in a sporting event. The last news about the athlete was that he had erased a bus bound for the city of Guadalajara and from there he was on his way to his native Sinaloa.