Mexican authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy nicknamed 'El Chapito' for the drug-related killing of eight people near Mexico City, the federal Public Safety Department said.
The motive in the killings has not been made public, but drug gangs in Mexico frequently dabble in kidnapping and contract killing. They also kill rivals selling drugs on their territory, or people who owe them money.In 2010, soldiers detained a 14-year-old boy nicknamed"El Ponchis" who claimed he was kidnapped at age 11 and forced to work for the Cartel of the South Pacific, a branch of the splintered Beltran Leyva gang. He said he had participated in at least four decapitations.
Also Thursday, prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said they had arrested a woman linked to as many as nine murders in the border city of Mexicali. The state prosecutors' office said that the woman had outstanding warrants for two killings, but that she had been named in seven other homicide investigations. The office did not say what the possible motives might be in those killings.
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