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To become a public official in Mexico? You have to be approved by the cartels.
municipal police chief has been arrested over alleged ties to the murder of a group of Mormons who lived near the U.S./Mexico border.
Fidel Alejandro Villegas, the police chief in Janos, nearby to Chihuahua, has been arrested on suspicion of protecting the interests of organized crime in the area, according to Reuters. He has been taken to Mexico City for questioning.
Janos Mayor Sebastián Efraín Pineda confirmed the arrest to Mexico Daily News, declaring the arrest "took us by surprise."
Nine people—three women and six children—were murdered in the state of Sonora November 4, and their bodies were left by the side of the road. The murderers were suspected to be drug cartel hitmen, and it's believed the women and children—members of the LeBarón family and part of a Mexican Mormon settlement with dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship—were killed because they had traveled through territory that's currently part of a turf war between two feuding cartels, La Linea and Los Salazar, the Associated Press says. It's possible that the attacking cartel mistook the SUVs as being a part of the rival cartel, says The Washington Examiner. Mexican police chief arrested over links to last month's slaying of Mormon women and children
Fidel Alejandro Villegas, the police chief in Janos, nearby to Chihuahua, has been arrested on suspicion of protecting the interests of organized crime in the area, according to Reuters. He has been taken to Mexico City for questioning.
Janos Mayor Sebastián Efraín Pineda confirmed the arrest to Mexico Daily News, declaring the arrest "took us by surprise."
Nine people—three women and six children—were murdered in the state of Sonora November 4, and their bodies were left by the side of the road. The murderers were suspected to be drug cartel hitmen, and it's believed the women and children—members of the LeBarón family and part of a Mexican Mormon settlement with dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship—were killed because they had traveled through territory that's currently part of a turf war between two feuding cartels, La Linea and Los Salazar, the Associated Press says. It's possible that the attacking cartel mistook the SUVs as being a part of the rival cartel, says The Washington Examiner. Mexican police chief arrested over links to last month's slaying of Mormon women and children
