Article 381 Quáter Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TWENTY-SECOND. Crimes against persons in their patrimony · CHAPTER I. Robbery
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The crime of cattle rustling is considered aggravated and the penalty shall be increased by up to one half, when it is committed by a person who has an employment relationship, or a relationship of kinship by consanguinity or affinity up to the fourth degree with the owner of the cattle.
In the same manner the penalty established in the preceding paragraph shall be imposed, when the crime is carried out by means of physical or moral violence, or when a public official commits it.
When the conduct referred to in this article is committed by a criminal association, band or gang, it shall be sanctioned in terms of articles 164 or 164 Bis, as applicable.