La Voz de Puerto Nov 25th, 2006
For presumed environmental crimes, the industrialist Catalina Ordaz de Evatt was arrested by agents of the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) according to arrest warrant number 183/06; she was incarcerated yesterday in the Centro de Rehabilitacíon Social (Cereso) of Guaymas.

La Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Profepa) denounced the well-known investor because her irresponsibility in clearing 224 hectares where she would build one of her several tourist developments in San Carlos.

She destroyed endemic flora of the region; listing  mesquites, Ironwood trees and ancient sahuaros. This has caused ecological damage which is irreversible, because several varieties of cactus took hundreds of years to reach their full size.

Catalina Ordaz Aguiar, owner of the company “Snowbird Realty”, that sells, rents, property deeds? and offers maintenance services to properties of tourists in Nuevo Guaymas, was apprehended at her residence in the Sector El Crestón, by agents of the Federal Agency of Investigaciones (AFI)(FBI), Thursday afternoon.

After appearing before the Agency of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), she was taken to the Cereso, where she will continue to be incarcerated until the investigation process against her by the environmental agency concludes. According to sources, the magnitude of the damage caused and the gravity (severity) of the crime she is accused of -she would not be allowed bail.