José Ascensión Murguía Santiago, former mayor of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, was arrested by Mexican authorities this past weekend following an investigation that uncovered an alleged network of criminal ties between officials of the rural Jalisco community and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).
Murguía is now being accused of working directly with cartel leaders in operations involving kidnappings and the disposal of human remains at the Izaguirre Ranch — an infamous property allegedly used by the CJNG as a training camp, detention center and execution site.
