Posted on 06/29/2026 10:53:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
The bizarre string of incidents, which began on June 13 in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno, has left authorities investigating at least five cases over a span of 10 days.
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Photos shared on X show some of the men with moustaches and cat whiskers drawn on their faces.
A mysterious vigilante known online as the "Mexican Batman" or the "Batman of Lagos de Moreno" has become the subject of a police manhunt in Jalisco, Mexico, after allegedly hunting down suspected motorcycle thieves, beating them, and duct-taping them to street lampposts. The bizarre string of incidents, which began on June 13 in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno, has left authorities investigating at least five cases over a span of 10 days. Each time, the suspected thieves were found bound to poles with heavy-duty duct tape, while motorcycles believed to have been stolen were left parked beside them.
Photos shared on X show some of the restrained men with moustaches and cat whiskers drawn on their faces, along with the word "ratero" (Spanish for thief) scrawled across their foreheads. In one incident, two men were taped back-to-back to a lamppost beneath a bright pink warning sign.
According to reports, the vigilante, dubbed the "Batman of Lagos de Moreno," operates under the cover of darkness and appears to leave the recovered motorcycles beside the suspects as evidence of their alleged crimes.
Despite the public spectacle, police are treating the restrained men as victims of assault rather than criminals. State Security Secretary Juan Pablo Hernandez said authorities are actively searching for the vigilante and have identified two vehicles that may be linked to the attacks. Investigators are also trying to determine whether the incidents are the work of a lone individual or a larger group.
The men were eventually freed by police and treated for injuries sustained during the assaults. It remains unclear whether they are also being investigated for the alleged motorcycle thefts.
The incidents come amid a sharp rise in motorcycle thefts in Lagos de Moreno, fuelling frustration among residents. The vigilante campaign has since gone viral across platforms including TikTok, X, and Instagram, where many users have praised the masked figure for taking action against suspected criminals.
Others, however, have warned that vigilante justice sets a dangerous precedent. Human rights advocates argue that taking the law into one's own hands risks escalating violence and undermines the justice system, regardless of the allegations against those targeted.
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Having just watched the banned movie ""Citizen Vigilante,"" these thieves who were only restrained to a light pole should count their blessings
The precedent is set when government fails in it's civil and biblical duty punish evildoers.
Vigilantism is an EFFECT, not a CAUSE.
Vigilantism is imperfect and sometimes harsh...LAWLESSNESS IS SATANIC!!
"Lock her up, lock her up"..."I don't want their support anymore".
127 days until midterms.
Exactly.
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That is exactly what I was thinking.
Cop: This is taking the law into their own hands. We can’t allow that justice stuff——we’re the police. Let the perps go. If they commit more crimes we’ll write up reports on our phones and somebody can look for them again.
Company should have a TV ad campaign like for BullShot and those glues.
"When the perps have to stay put, we're the brand to count on."
I'll take your word for it even if someone posts photos of their rear ends on social media. Z.
RE: ...police launch manhunt...
Remember the contrasting Death Wish scenes? Widowed Paul Kersey tries to get updates on search for his late wife’s killer and the rapists who ruined his daughter’s life. There is a small, bored group of cops who aren’t trying very hard to get past the finished crime scene report.
Then after the huge publicity about a vigilante bringing guilty perps to justice reaches a crescendo, the large police station room is filled to standing room only with detectives on the way to go all out to find him.
I studied in school a long time, but back then they were pretty much concentrating on a more Castilian Spanish.
Just about every American Hispanic country has it’s own slang and even certain grammatical habits.
Most likely a relative of a victim will go and see that the perp met with an accident of some sort and have an airtight alibi ...just saying.
When it absolutely, positively has to stay there overnight!...........
Agree.
We, the people are barely noticed useless underlings to the people in the legal system.
Corrupt politicians pass the laws. Cops use the laws when taking cases to prosecutors before totally reprehensible judges.
When a giggling legal story staff lawyer Charlie Langton was discussing a carjacking story on WJR Radio in Michigan once, he laughed when he said the driver who was now in jail facing trial for defending himself for shooting and wounding the carjacker’s back in a struggle (but the perp was not fleeing, just maneuvering to shoot at the driver again), the female announcer said “But there have been several stories we covered where the driver or passenger was killed.” The Michigan law said a victim cannot shoot someone in defense of a piece of property such as a car being stolen. Langton said but if he can’t prove the carjacker wasn’t fleeing then he also has a mandatory 2 year gun violation added to the assault on the carjacker.
She did NOT think he was funny and then said: “Who is in our legislatures and Congress passing these laws?”
They should pay you for the line.
The Blue state blues.
The guy deserves pay and permanent anonymity.
So, what’s the problem with this? Tale of the tape is not jut a pre-fight statistic but also post-crime credit where credit is due. Stick around, amigos.
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