Baja California Sur Officials González Beltrán and Casimiro Morales Named in Complaint Alleging Denial of Justice

Prosecutor Bryan Alejandro González Beltrán and Consuelo Erica Casimiro Morales were named in a complaint alleging three offenses, Querencia Los Cabos case.

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State prosecutor Bryan Alejandro González Beltrán and Consuelo Erica Casimiro Morales, acting head of a Southern Zone regional deputy prosecutor's office, both of the Baja California Sur State Attorney General's Office, have been named in a criminal complaint filed with the authorities. According to the complaint, the offenses are alleged unlawful exercise of public service, alleged falsehood by public servants and alleged denial of justice. According to the decision and its authorization, he drew up, in the Querencia Los Cabos case, a decision not to prosecute dated February 11, 2026, and she authorized it on February 13. A complaint does not prove the facts it alleges; both are presumed innocent.

The three offenses named in the complaint

In Mexico, state prosecutors (Ministerio Público) investigate crimes and decide whether a case goes before a judge. A criminal complaint (denuncia) formally reports to the authorities acts that may be crimes; on its own, it proves nothing.

González Beltrán and Casimiro Morales have been named in a criminal complaint filed with the authorities. According to the complaint, they are reported for three alleged offenses, all set out in the Baja California Sur Criminal Code:

  • alleged unlawful exercise of public service (ejercicio ilícito del servicio público), Article 270(V);
  • alleged falsehood by public servants (falsedad de servidores públicos), Article 291;
  • alleged denial of justice (denegación de justicia), Article 308(I).

A complaint is an allegation, not proof, and both officials are presumed innocent. What the complaint contends about the decision itself is set out in what the Querencia Los Cabos prosecutor complaint alleges.

What each official signed

Under Mexican procedure, a decision not to prosecute (no ejercicio de la acción penal) is proposed by the prosecutor in charge of the case and must then be authorized by a superior.

According to the decision, dated February 11, 2026, the official who drew it up was González Beltrán, a state prosecutor (agente del Ministerio Público) of the Baja California Sur State Attorney General's Office (Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Baja California Sur). According to its authorization, the official who approved it on February 13, 2026, was Casimiro Morales, acting head (encargada de despacho) of the Southern Zone Regional Deputy Prosecutor's Office for Criminal Proceedings (Subprocuraduría Regional de Procedimientos Penales Zona Sur).

According to the decision and its authorization, the prosecutor decided not to prosecute the driver and the club's doctor, both under investigation, and two companies, Querencia Real Estate, S. de R.L. de C.V. and Querencia Golf Club, S. de R.L. de C.V., for failure to render aid (omisión de auxilio), failure to file a medical report (omisión de informe médico) and concealment (encubrimiento). The ground stated in those documents was atipicidad: the conduct did not fit the legal definition of those offenses. For unintentional bodily injury and property damage, by contrast, the decision opted to pursue prosecution of the driver. S. de R.L. de C.V. is a Mexican limited-liability company form, roughly comparable to a U.S. LLC.

According to its authorization, the approval covers "not prosecuting, because the conduct did not fit the definition of the offense" (translated from Spanish: "no ejercicio de la acción penal por atipicidad") and was given "on the same terms proposed" (translated from Spanish: "en los mismos términos planteados"). The decision itself is examined at greater length in a closer look at the Querencia Los Cabos decision not to prosecute.

What a pretrial judge did with the decision

A decision not to prosecute can be examined in Mexico by the judge who oversees the investigation stage, at a hearing before that judge to review it (audiencia de control).

According to the transcription of the ruling, on September 23, 2026, a pretrial judge (Juez de Control) in Los Cabos revoked a prosecutor's decision not to prosecute specific offenses, dated February 11, 2026, and authorized on February 13, because it was not properly grounded or reasoned, and ordered the investigation to continue. In the same ruling, the judge considered that not prosecuting was warranted as to the companies (personas morales). Under that ruling, prosecutors may issue a new, properly grounded and reasoned decision.

Article 16 of Mexico's Constitution obliges every authority to state the legal basis for what it does and to explain why that law applies to the facts at hand, a requirement known as being fundado y motivado. A decision that declines to prosecute three offenses without meeting that obligation is not due process; coming from a state attorney general's office, it is an injustice of the institution's own making. That judgment concerns what the office did, not the two officials as individuals; both are presumed innocent.

The complaint and the crash investigation

This complaint is not the investigation into the crash: it names two public servants. That investigation stems from a crash at Querencia Los Cabos on March 25, 2025, when a truck bearing Querencia markings struck a golf cart from behind, throwing a 5-year-old girl from it; state prosecutors then opened an investigation file (carpeta de investigación) covering four offenses: unintentional bodily injury, failure to render aid, failure to file a medical report and property damage. Its stages are outlined in the Querencia Los Cabos criminal case, step by step.

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