A former prosecutor in southern Mexico is arrested in the grisly decapitation of a mayor
Associated PressMEXICO CITY — A former prosecutor and local police official was arrested Tuesday in connection with the grisly decapitation of a mayor on Oct. 6. The arrest was shocking, because officials had previously blamed the killing on a local drug and extortion gang, and Reyes was formerly employed as special prosecutor for Guerrero state, a high-level position. Mexico’s top federal security official, Omar García Harfuch, said earlier Tuesday that Arcos —the mayor whose body was found in a pickup truck, with his severed head placed on the roof of the vehicle — was apparently killed by the same gang responsible for killing 11 market vendors, including four boys, last week. While neither Harfuch nor state prosecutors would name the gang, a local human rights activist said the Ardillos were responsible for killing the market vendors.
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