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The Zacatecas Attorney General’s Office reported the arrest of two minors who were allegedly involved in the kidnapping of seven young people in the municipality of Villanueva; six of them were murdered.
Oscar Alberto Aparicio Avendaño, head of the Secretary of Public Security (SSP) of the entity, said that the detainees are allegedly members of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG). The detainees are two adolescents aged 15 and 16.
“These young people (…) are originally from Durango and may be related to the facts that this prosecutor’s office is investigating, we have a recognition process in which witnesses recognize that they may be part of the armed group that took the victims,” said Francisco Murillo Ruiseco, prosecutor of Zacatecas.
The head of the state Prosecutor’s Office added that the detained youths are currently in the Adolescent Detention Center.
He pointed out that after the recognition of the detainees by witnesses, it was enough evidence “to obtain an arrest warrant against them for the crime of aggravated kidnapping to the detriment of the seven young people from Villanova”.
The newspaper La Jornada reported that the kidnapping of the youths was allegedly the result of disputes in the state between the criminal structure of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, leader of the CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel.
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