The official says that the Mexican mayor was arrested in relation to the alleged drug cargo training camp

A mayor from the western city of Mexico was arrested as part of an investigation into a suspect Camp to train a drug cartel A federal official said that human bones and clothes were found.

The mayor of Tichitlan Jose Morgoya Santiago was arrested as part of the investigation by the government prosecutors in a possible neglect or the complicity of the authorities with Gilgsco new generation CartelHe told a federal source to Agence France -Presse on Saturday.

The source asked not to be identified because they were not allowed to speak to the media.

Morjoya was arrested late Saturday afternoon, according to federal detention records.

The Cartel, which the US Drug Control Administration says it has about 19,000 in its ranks, has rapidly evolved into a very violent and capable force after its division of Sino Cartel After Sinwa Cartel Capo Inacio 2010 Coronel Villarreal was killed by the army.

The horror farm was discovered, and some local media were called at the Izaguirre farm in Teuchitlán in the western Jalisco state for the first time in September 2024. After six months, people looking for missing relatives found clothes and human residues, and asked questions about the initial investigation, including the failure to search comprehensively.

Human Rights Watch called it a “clear mass killing site.”

Senior officials said the cartel used the farm to train newly recruited militants.

The Guerreos Buscadores Collection, a group dedicated to the location of the missing relatives, described the Teuchitlán farm as a “extermination center” with a “secret Holocaust” where it was believed that the forced recruits were detained by the Cartel.

“There is no evidence that it was an extermination camp.”

But he also said that an alleged recruiter – was arrested – said that the Kartel members had tortured and killed recruits, refused to cooperate or tried to escape.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office, who denied that the executions had been carried out systematically, after a complaint from Guerreos Buscadores.

The group found buried bones, clothes, shoes and other things on the farm, which no one played while searching in September by the authorities that were raided after reports of the shooting.

According to the office of the Public Prosecutor in Galissco, 10 people were arrested, and two prisoners and dead body were released with structural remains in September.

Besides Mayor Morjoya, about ten others were arrested in the case, including a police chief from the neighboring municipality and two of his officers.

More than 127,000 people They are registered in missing in Mexico, most of them since 2006 when the government announced the war on drug smuggling groups.

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