LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge ordered the arrest Thursday of a regional governor on murder charges in the March gangland-style slaying of a political rival who had accused him of running a corrupt, violent mini-dictatorship in a rich mining state.

Gov. Cesar Alvarez is wanted in the March 14 murder of former Ancash state lawmaker Ezequiel Nolasco, who was felled by five bullets when he stopped for a beer on his way home to the northern coastal city of Chimbote from Lima.