EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican authorities have charged two of five former Chihuahua state police officers suspected of abducting and killing a young couple in December 2020.
The officers became fugitives from justice the following January when security camera videos and a patrol car’s GPS linked them to the address from which the couple was taken, state Attorney General Cesar Augusto Peniche told reporters back then.
Marco Antonio G.G., left, and Jacobo Eulogio C.L.
Two of the five, Marco Antonio G.G. and Jacobo Eulogio C.L., were captured recently and were notified of the charges Thursday in their jail cells in Juarez, Mexico. The Attorney General’s Office said the judge next Tuesday will decide if they will be held for trial for the murder of Irving Adolfo Zaragoza Ruiz, in his 20s, and the aggravated femicide of Fatima Guadalupe Lopez, 18.
Police found the bodies along a dirt road in southeast Juarez two weeks after their disappearance. The AG’s office said they were strangled.
Peniche in 2021 told local news media the motive for the abduction was revenge, as one of the officers’ brothers had been murdered, and they were looking for a man who might know something about the killing. Lopez and Zaragoza were about to marry and were fixing up the house they planned to inhabit when they were abducted, one Juarez news portal reported.
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