65. Maria de Jesús Alvarado reported in her statement that she went to the place of the incidents after being notified by Obdulia Espinoza Beltrán, where she only found the motor vehicle from which José Ángel Alvarado Herrera and Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza were forced out, and she proceeded to examine it and noticed that there were no keys in the car or stereo equipment and that on the right-hand side there was some blood on the floor next to the tire.46 66. As for the detention of Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes, according to various testimonies provided by her mother, Patricia Reyes, on December 29, 2009, between 21:00 and 22:00, eight to ten persons came to her home and insistently asked her to open the door. She indicated that, in view of the insistence of these persons, she decided to open the door at which time persons wearing military uniforms and bearing rifles entered the house.47 She specified that she identified them as army troops because their voices and body languages belonged to that of troops.48 She indicated that, once the anonymous persons had entered, she was locked in bathroom with her two younger children and her granddaughter49 and that they told Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes that she was being arrested. Mrs. Patricia Reyes specified the following in her statement: “I asked them why and they shouted at me to shut up” after which they took Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes with them.50 She indicated that, when they were taking her daughter away, the soldiers said that it was a detention in the framework of Operation Chihuahua.51 67. R.A.A.R, the ten year old brother of Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes at the time of the events, eyewitness to the incidents, indicated that, on December 29, 2009, at about 9:00 p.m., he was sleeping in his home with his mother Patricia Reyes, his sister Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes, his niece A.M.U.A and her brother A.A.R, when his mother and sister opened the door and eight or nine soldiers wearing desert-sand-colored clothing, hooded with helmets and bearing rifles with light entered the home. He indicated that they told him [… continuation] Public Ministry attached to the Special Prosecution Service for Crimes of Violence against Women and Human Trafficking September 11, 2011, page 152 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014). 46 Annex XX. Brief of observations about the merits of the case from the petitioners, received on February 18, 2014. Annex No. 2, Statement made by María de Jesús Alvarado Espinoza to the Agent of the Public Ministry of Buenaventura, Aarón Enríquez Duarte, attached to what was then PGJE-Chihuahua, on December 31, 2009; Annex I. Case file. Volume XVII. Statement of testimony by Patricia Reyes Rueda to the Agent of the Public Ministry of the Federation on January 6, 2010, page 213 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014). 47 Annex XX. Brief of observations about the merits of the case from the petitioners, received on February 18, 2014. Annex No. 2, Statement made by Patricia Reyes to the Agent of the Public Ministry of Buenaventura, Aarón Enríquez Duarte, attached to what was then PGJE-Chihuahua, on December 31, 2009. 48 Annex I. Case file. Volume XVIII. Minutes of the ministerial inspection by the Deputy Director of Strategic Studies attached to the Special Prosecution Service for Crimes of Violence against Women and Human Trafficking with reference to a communication initiated by the Second General Visit of the CNDH with Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes, page 767 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014). 49 Annex XX. Brief of the petitioners sent as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings with the I/A Court H.R. on September 7, 2011. Annex No. 3, CNDH - Recommendation 43/11. 50 Annex XX. Brief of observations about the merits of the case from the petitioners, received on February 18, 2014. Annex No. 2, Statement made by Patricia Reyes to the Agent of the Public Ministry of Buenaventura, Aarón Enríquez Duarte, attached to what was then PGJE-Chihuahua, on December 31, 2009. See also Annex I. Case file. Volume XVI. Statement made by Patricia Reyes Rueda on January 6, 2010 to the Agent of the Public Ministry of the Federation, page 477 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014); Annex I. Case file. Volume XVII. Report of the Agent of the Public Ministry of the Federation of the Special Prosecution Service for Crimes of Violence Against Women and Human Trafficking where the statement of Patricia Reyes Rueda appears, page 354 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014). 51 Annex I. Case file. Volume XVIII. Report of the Investigation Department of the Federal Police Force addressed to the Agent of the Public Ministry of the Federation, page 266 of the pdf file (Annex to the brief of observations on the merits by the petitioners, received on November 3, 2014), where it is informed that, according to Patricia Reyes Rueda, Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes was taken out of her home by military personnel (covered in ski masks) who said it involved Operation Chihuahua thus depriving her of her liberty. It was also indicated that, on January 9, 2010, the next of kin of the missing persons met in the Fifth Military Region with staff from various committees and elements of the Mexican Army, among whom General Felipe de Jesús Espitia y Guillen and Major Carlos Sergio Ruvalcaba, who denied the incidents and accused the missing persons and María de Jesús of holding police records for car theft.