The Mexican mayor was arrested for alleged connections to the cartel training camp

The prosecutors in Mexico arrested the mayor of Teuchitlán in the western state of Jalisco as part of their investigation of a nearby antitrust training location.

The mayor, José Murgguía Santiago, is suspected of working with the new generation Jalalco Cartel (CJNG), which he has contested.

The examination was started after activists discovered bone fragments and hundreds of thrown shoes, backpacks and clothing on the Izaguirre Ranch outside the city in March.

Legal groups said that they feared that the ranch had been used as a “extermination camp” in which people were inevitably recruited and trained and those who refused were tortured and killed.

The discovery by people looking for their missing relatives shocked the country where cartel power was widespread.

The Attorney General of Mexico, Alejandro Gertz, gave a press conference last week in which journalists were updated on the federal investigation of the ranch.

He confirmed that the location was used as a training center for recruits of the Jalalco New Generation Cartel, one of the most feared and most powerful transnational drug trade gangs that have its base in Jalalco.

However, he said that there was no evidence that it was used as an extermination and cremation.

According to the Attorney General, bone fragments found that there were no recent and forensic tests that the fires illuminated on the ranch would not have been hot enough to dispose of human remains.

Gertz’s statements caused by “seekers”, the name that was given relatives who were looking for more than 120,000 people who have been reported in Mexico in the past two decades.

They said that his press conference raised more questions than she answered and could not address the many abandoned shoes on the ranch and what had become of these people.

Gertz insisted that the authorities would continue to investigate whether the CJNG and the local official had given an agreement.

Mayor Murguía Santiago’s arrest is part of this ongoing investigation.

Before his arrest, the mayor had said that he had nothing to hide. “If you want to examine me, let them be clean and ready to say what I know,” he said to the local media.

However, the public prosecutor claims that he knew about the existence of the training center and did not respond to this knowledge.