Mexican officials have arrested a police chief in the northern municipality of Janos that borders the state of Sonora where a Mormon family was murdered in November.
Mexican media confirmed that police chief Fidel Alejandro Villegas was arrested Friday in connection with the massacre that left six American children and three adults dead.
The family’s car was found riddled with bullets and set aflame after the group found themselves in the middle of a gang dispute between La Linea and Los Salazar drug cartels along the United States-Mexico border.
In early November, brothers Hector Mario and Luis Manuel Hernandez were arrested in connection with the deaths. The brothers have claimed innocence, and protests have broken out in the area as some suggest the arrests were politically motivated.
In response to the killings, Trump promised to help wipe drug cartels “off the face of the map.”
