EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police have arrested several men they say are responsible for recent high-profile crimes that stunned residents in the past two months in Juarez, Mexico.
Those include the Aug. 11 killing of two municipal police officers and a La Linea cartel leader for whom they allegedly were providing security, and the Sept. 19 quintuple murder in the Anapra neighborhood near the U.S. border that included two teenaged victims, Chihuahua state police Chief of Staff Luis Aguirre said on Monday.
Mexican army special forces land in Juarez
Men only identified as Jose Uriel M.F., 26; Jesus Roman C.H., 21; and Ricardo N., 22, where taken into custody late last week at a home in west Juarez after state police officers saw them in the Lazaro Cardenas neighborhood getting off an SUV carrying guns, which are illegal in Mexico.
Aguirre said the officers pursued and subdued one of the suspects inside the home, where they found a stash of 38 guns and rifles and three migrants being held for ransom…