Mexico City, Nov. 6, (dpa/GNA) – A man was arrested in northern Mexico in connection to the killings of nine members of a Mormon family a year ago, the office of Mexico’s Attorney General said in a statement on Thursday.
The man, identified only as Alfredo L, was arrested in Ciudad Juarez in the north-western Mexican state of Chihuahua on charges of homicide and organized crime, the statement said.
“The individual is a member of a criminal organization with a presence in the north of the country, and is likely a participant in the events that occurred on November 4 last year in Bavispe, Sonora, when nine people lost their lives,” the Attorney General’s Office said.
Suspected gang members killed six children and three women belonging to a Mormon family in the attack last year. The victims were both Mexican and US nationals.
Sonora state, which borders Chihuahua, is home to hundreds of members of an offshoot Mormon group which settled in Mexico in the 1920s. Some members of the group practice polygamy, which is frowned upon by the mainstream Mormon church.
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