• CHARGES: Mexico’s Attorney General Office (FGR) has filed organized crime charges against five suspects linked to the November 4th massacre of of three women and six children in the northern state of Sonora, federal government sources told Reforma newspaper.
• SUSPECTS: According to the same sources who asked not to be named, the FGR has yet to present homicide charges against the suspects. Previously, authorities have said that seven people have been arrested including the local police chief of Janos in the state of Chihuahua.
• PROBE: “There is information that we cant reveal in order to respect of due process…We have agreed to meet again in two months to inform you how the probe is going and then I’ll return here”, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said while visiting Sonora on Sunday.
• US SIDE: Last week, victims family members said that the US Ambassador to Mexico, Chris Landau, told them during a private meeting that American law enforcement had arrested two suspects linked to the November 4th massacre; so far, US authorities have not confirmed this.
