149. On June 13 and 14, 2013, testimony was taken from Infantry Colonel Elfego José Lujan Ruiz, Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Bravo Alcaraz, and Infantry First Captain Joel Sotelo Vásquez in the Military Prison of Camp Number 1, in Mexico City.182 150. On June 18, 2013, testimony was taken from General James Pedro Lohman Ituburu, in the Permanent Ordinary War Council to Military Region III, Mazatlán, Sinaloa.183 151. On October 30, 2013, information was requested on the criminal proceedings instituted against Colonel José Elfego Lujan Ruiz and Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Bravo Alcaraz,184 information that was received on November 7, 2013.185 Likewise, on December 20, 2013, information was received on the accused as part of criminal proceedings 34/2013 and 35/2013.186 152. On November 8, 2013, it was proposed that a thorough search for bodies be conducted in the zone known as “Las Cuevas” in San Buenaventura, an area near the place where the alleged victims disappeared.187 153. On November 15, 2013, the PGR sent information on the genetic profiles involved in the case to the General Directorate for Forensic Expert Services and Sciences of the State of Chihuahua.188 154. On November 21, 2013 the General Directorate for Forensic Expert Services and Sciences of the State of Chihuahua issued instructions for the genetic profiles to be entered and compared with others in the State of Chihuahua’s database but the comparison yielded negative results.189 155. On March 31, 2014, a request for an arrest warrant request against Colonel Elfego José Lujan Ruiz for the forced disappearance of persons, to the detriment of Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, José Ángel Alvarado Herrera, and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes,190 was submitted to a federal trial court judge. 156. On the same date, the Seventh District Judge of the District of Ciudad Juárez denied the arrest warrant requested by the Federal Public Ministry as he considered that it did not set out a third of the elements of the crime of forced disappearance stipulated in Article 215-A.191 The Federal Public Ministry filed 182 Annex XX. State’s brief submitted as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings before the I/A Court H.R., September 26, 2013. 183 Annex XX. State’s brief submitted as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings before the I/A Court H.R., September 26, 2013. 184 Annex I. Case file. Volume XXII. Official Letter from the PGR to the Attorney General for Military Justice, October 30, 2013, page 24 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014). 185 Annex I. Case file. Volume XXII. Official Letter from the Military General Prosecutor’s Office to the officer of the Federal Public Ministry, November 7, 2013, page 121 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014). 186 Annex I. Case file. Volume XXII. Official Letter from the Federal Public Ministry attached to the Specialized Unit for the Search of Missing Persons, November 8, 2013, page 47 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014). 187 Annex I. Case file. Volume XXII. Official Letter from the Deputy Attorney General's Office for Regional Monitoring, Criminal Proceedings, and Constitutional Appeals to the Public Ministry officer attached to the Specialized Unit for the Search of Missing Persons, December 20, 2013, page 322 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014). 188 Annex XX. State’s brief submitted as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings before the I/A Court H.R., January 28, 2014. 189 Annex XX. State’s brief submitted as part of the MP 10-10 proceedings before the I/A Court H.R., January 28, 2014. Annex I. Case file. Volume XXII. Official Letter from the Attorney General’s Office for Military Justice to the Federal Public Ministry officer, November 7, 2013, page 475 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014); Annex I. Case file. Volume XXIII. Record of the preliminary inquiry with no one in custody, submitted to the district judge, March 31, 2014, page 4 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014); Annex XX. Narrative in response to the State’s observations on the merits received on August 26, 2014. 190 191 Annex I. Case file. Volume XXIII. Ruling on the arrest warrant by the Seventh District Judge of Ciudad Juárez, March 31, 2014, page 21 of the pdf. (Annex to the petitioners’ observations on the merits received on November 3, 2014).