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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum indicated Monday that she would seek clarification about what U.S. and Mexican officials were doing when he died in a car crash in Mexico.
Sheinbaum said his government would investigate the incident to ensure no laws were broken following Sunday’s deaths, according to the Associated Press, adding that state governments must obtain “constitutionally established” authorization from Mexico’s federal government to cooperate with U.S. and other foreign entities.
The fatal incident, which killed two US Embassy personnel and two men from the Chihuahua state investigative agency (AEI), occurred after a drug-related operation in Mexico.
“This was not an operation that the security cabinet was aware of,” Sheinbaum said, according to the AP. “We were not informed; it was a decision of the Chihuahua government.”
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum looks on during her daily press conference at the Women’s Oncology Hospital in Mexico City on March 9, 2026. (Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)
In a statement issued Sunday, Chihuahua state Attorney General César Jauregui Moreno announced the death of “members of the state investigative agency as well as two instructor officers of the United States Embassy who died in an accident while returning from an operation to destroy clandestine laboratories in the municipality of Morelos,” according to an English translation.
The Attorney General indicated in another statement that no foreign agents were involved in the operation and that it was not related to the accident.
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“To avoid speculation and misunderstanding about the operation, which led to the discovery of a drug lab in the community of El Pinal in the Sierra de Chihuahua, the state’s Attorney General, César Jauregui Moreno, specified that only the State Investigation Agency (AEI) and elements of the Mexican Army participated in it,” the April 20 statement said, according to an English translation.
“With the above, he denies interference by foreign elements,” the office said, however, he specified that trainers from the United States were in the state and in a neighboring community, but for other purposes, such as to teach how to handle drones. “He said that about 80 officers participated in the seizure of the drug lab, 40 of them from the AEI and another 40 from the Secretariat of National Defense (DEFENSA).”
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks on stage next to U.S. President Donald Trump during the draw for the 2026 FIFA soccer World Cup to be held between the United States, Canada and Mexico at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on December 5, 2025. (Jia Haocheng/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Jauregui Moreno said that AEI director Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes “met with trainers from the US Embassy who were giving a course on drone operations in Polanco” and “they flew in from the city of Chihuahua on Sunday morning and asked for assistance to accompany the convoy in which the director was travelling”.
“He got into the vehicle at about two in the morning and got into an accident that took his life,” Jauregui Moreno said.
According to the AP, he noted that “there were no American agents in the operation to secure the narco-lab.”
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The Mexican security cabinet confirmed that the army and the state prosecutor’s office conducted a joint effort over the weekend targeting drug laboratories in Morelos, the same location in Chihuahua, the outlet reported.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of two U.S. Embassy personnel, the director of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI), and an AEI officer in this accident,” U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said in part of a Sunday post on X.
He said, “We honor their dedication and tireless efforts to confront one of the greatest challenges of our time. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their loved ones. This tragedy is a sobering reminder of the risks faced by Mexican and U.S. officers who are dedicated to protecting our communities. It strengthens our resolve to continue their mission and advance our shared commitment to security and justice to protect our people.”
Ronald Johnson, nominated by US President Donald Trump as US Ambassador to Mexico, speaks during a nomination hearing for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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The US State Department had no further comment to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
