MEXICO CITY: A Mexican mayor of southern town has been arrested along with a drug cartel, officials said.
Cocula Mayor Erick Ulises Ramirez was detained on Thursday in the central state of Morelos along with Adan Zenen Casarrubias, an alleged member of the Guerreros Unidos gang, a federal official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The official did not have details about the charges against the two men. Ramirez took office last month, so he was not mayor when the 43 students were abducted by local police in the neighboring city of Iguala on September 26, 2014.
Prosecutors say officers from both Iguala and Cocula handed the students over to members of the Guerreros Unidos, who killed them and burned their bodies at a landfill in Cocula. The president of Ramirez’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Carlos Navarrete, confirmed the mayor’s arrest.
