MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities arrested 18 people Thursday in the abduction of two prosecution agents forced to appear on a video by a drug gang before they were slain, the Attorney General’s Office said. Acting Attorney General Alberto Elias Beltran said at a news conference late Thursday that the arrests were made earlier in the day during a series of raids in western Nayarit and Jalisco states. The agents’ remains were found in Xalisco, a town in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, two weeks after their disappearance. They had worked for the Criminal Investigation Agency, a kind of federal detectives’ bureau. In the video, they were accused of being undercover agents, but the government said they were off duty when they were abducted.

Source: National Post March 16, 2018 03:49 UTC