Guatemala City, March 21 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) Guatemalan security forces apprehended four people, three men and a woman, on Tuesday for possible links to the Feb 19 murder of three Salvadoran deputies and their driver.
The arrests were part of operations in Jutiapa Department (province) near El Salvador, and in the capital itself, Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann told reporters.
Vielmann said Mario Javier Lemus, Obdulio Waldemar de Leon, Carlos Orellana and Linda Castillo Orellana were active participants in the deaths of the Salvadoran deputies, allegedly purchasing the fuel, and they are believed to have disarmed the deputies car in a search for money or drugs.
The minister said the investigators have verified that the four suspects are involved in drug trafficking.
On March 26, representatives of the governments of Guatemala and El Salvador will meet to analyze the course of the investigation into the crime and the subsequent execution of four police officers arrested for being presumably responsible for the murders.