Messaging from Mexico this morning

Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Civilian Protection Omar Harfuch, the country’s top civilian security official, spent about an hour and a half this morning on a stage with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during a morning news conference in the Gulf state of Veracruz. 

The news that Ryan Wedding was in U.S. custody broke during the news conference.

Harfuch did not mention anything about the Wedding case during the event, and no journalists asked any questions on the subject.

At about 9:30 a.m. ET, Harfuch’s office sent out a news release and posted a statement on X announcing that a “Canadian” had turned himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on Thursday. The information was buried at the bottom of a statement about a meeting between FBI head Kash Patel, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Mexican security officials that was also held Thursday.