Mexican police have arrested a man who is believed to be the mastermind behind the murder of nine members of a Mormon family over a year ago. The Mexican public prosecutor’s office communicated this on Wednesday.
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Roberto N. was arrested Monday along with two other people near the village of Juan Mata Ortiz in the northern state of Chihuahua. The man is the regional head of ‘La Linea’, the organization that is considered the armed arm of the Juarez drug cartel, according to local media. Since the facts of early November 2019, seventeen suspects have already been arrested.
Suspected gang members murdered six children and three women of the LeBarón community, a Latter-day Saint cult, on Nov. 4. The victims had both Mexican and American nationality. The murder would be linked to a conflict between La Linea and the Los Salazar cartel, it was said at the time. But why the women and children were shot was not clear. Three women from the LeBarón community traveled with a bevy of children on three minivans on Monday morning between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora. On a deserted mountain road, they presumably ended up in an ambush by one of the gangs in the area.
The victims were part of a community made up of Mormons who fled the United States in the 1800s to escape the restraints of polygamy. Many Mormons in Mexico have both Mexican and American citizenship.
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