Mexican authorities on Monday arrested the widow of a mayor in central Mexico who was shot and killed last week, on charges she was involved in an extortion case, according to prosecutors and local media.
Valentin Lavin, the mayor of the town of Temoac and allied with President Claudia Sheinbaum’s leftist party, was shot and killed during a town hall on July 22.
The crime occurred in the state of Morelos, a region close to Mexico City where several drug cartels are active.
The state prosecutor’s office said Monday they arrested Marisol “N,” which the Mexican press identified as the mayor’s widow, as well as Geovany Emmanuel “N,” chief of the municipal police. The office released images of both suspects with their eyes blurred out, as is customary in Mexico.
Prosecutors said both were detained as part of an anti-extortion operation, though it did not provide further details of the arrests or if it had any connection to Lavin’s death.
