{"id":163000,"date":"2025-08-21T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163000\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:29:14","slug":"mexico-city-mayor-says-police-arrest-13-in-connection-with-killings-of-her-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163000\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City mayor says police arrest 13 in connection with killings of her staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 At least 13 people allegedly involved in the killing of two members of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada\u2019s staff<\/a> in May were arrested Wednesday for their alleged roles in what authorities described as a meticulously planned hit on two people close to the capital\u2019s leader. <\/p>\n

Three of those arrested allegedly were directly involved in the killings and the others had roles in the logistics.<\/p>\n

Brugada\u2019s personal secretary, Ximena Guzm\u00e1n, and an adviser, Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz, were shot dead in Guzm\u00e1n\u2019s car on a Mexico City street in broad daylight on May 20. Guzm\u00e1n, as she did regularly, was picking up Mu\u00f1oz at a subway station.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese results represent the first advances of an ongoing investigation,\u201d Brugada said.<\/p>\n

Bertha Mar\u00eda Alcalde Luj\u00e1n, Mexico City\u2019s chief prosecutor, said later during a news conference that five vehicles, including the motorcycle the shooter fled on, were part of the operation. Two of the other vehicles were identified as having surveilled the victims in the weeks before their killings.<\/p>\n

Alcalde Luj\u00e1n even said investigators believe the hit had originally been planned for May 14, but Guzm\u00e1n didn\u2019t pick up Mu\u00f1oz that day, so they believe it was called off.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s federal security chief, Omar Garc\u00eda Harfuch, said investigators confirmed that those involved in the shootings initially fled to a neighborhood in the borough of Iztacalco, not far from the capital\u2019s international airport. There they changed vehicles and escaped the city to neighboring Mexico state.<\/p>\n

Early Wednesday, law enforcement carried out 11 raids, arresting the 13 suspects.<\/p>\n

Mexico City Police Chief Pablo V\u00e1zquez Camacho said there were various lines of investigation, but authorities would not speak of a possible motive while the investigation remained open.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 At least 13 people allegedly involved in the killing of two members of Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[94208,1613,94209,4219,57,4221,94210,1612,2936,2222,14004,50,94211,41918,80,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-163000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bertha-mara-alcalde-lujn","9":"tag-central-america","10":"tag-clara-brugada","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-homicide","14":"tag-jos-muoz","15":"tag-latin-america","16":"tag-law-enforcement","17":"tag-mexico","18":"tag-mexico-city","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-omar-garca-harfuch","21":"tag-pablo-vzquez-camacho","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115065111400308457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}