SAN DIEGO — Five people were arrested Friday morning in connection with last month's shooting death of Tijuana photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel, according to Mexico's top national defense official.
The arrests were made at dawn in Tijuana, where authorities also seized an AR-15-style rifle, a Smith & Wesson handgun, phones and drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamine, said Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, head of the national defense agency known as SEDENA.
The weapons will be tested to determine if they were used in the murder or in any other documented crimes, the official said.
