Mexican mayor arrested in relation to the alleged drug cartel training camp, says the official

A mayor of a city in western Mexico was arrested as part of an investigation of a suspicion Drug poster training camp Where bones and human clothing were found, said a federal official.

The mayor of Teuchitlán, José Murguía Santiago, was arrested as part of an investigation by government prosecutors on probable omissions or complicity of the authorities with the Jalisco New Generation postera federal source told News on Saturday.

The source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Murguía was arrested Saturday afternoon, according to federal arrest records.

The poster, that the United States drug control administration says it is about 19,000 in its ranks, quickly became an extremely violent and capable force after separating from the Sinaloa Cartel After the 2010 murder of the Sinaloa Capo Ignacio poster “Nacho” Coronel Villarreal for the Army.

The “Rancho del Horror”, as some local media called it, at the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, in the western state of Jalisco, was first discovered in September 2024. Six months later, people who were looking for missing relatives found human clothes and remains, asking questions about the initial research, including a failure to look for the site thoroughly.

Human Rights Watch described him as an “apparent mass murder site.”

The poster allegedly used the ranch to train newly recruited armed men, said senior officials.

The group of Warriors Searchballs, a group dedicated to locating missing relatives, described the Teuchitlán ranch as a “extermination center” with “clandestine crematoriums” where the forced recruits were in the hands of the poster.

The Minister of Security, Omar García Harfuch, told reporters at the end of March that “there was no evidence that it was an extermination field.”

But he also said that an alleged recruiter, who was arrested, said the cartel members tortured and killed the recruits who refused to cooperate or tried to flee.

The Office of the Attorney General, who has denied that the executions were carried out systematically, took charge of the investigation after a complaint of seekers.

The group found bones, clothing, shoes and other objects buried in the ranch, which went unnoticed during a search in September by the authorities that raided it after shooting reports.

According to the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, 10 people were arrested, two captives released and a corpse found together with skeletal remains in September.

In addition to Mayor Murguía, a dozen other people have been arrested in the case, including a police chief of a neighboring municipality and two of his officers.

More than 127,000 people They are registered as missing in Mexico, most of them since 2006 when the Government declared the war against drug trafficking groups.

By state, Jalisco has the largest number of cases of missing persons, with more than 15,000.

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