Former Mexican mayor accused of drug trafficking by the United States arrested in Guatemala

Guatemalan security forces arrested two Mexican citizens requested for extradition on Tuesday for USA under drug trafficking charges. Among those arrested is a former mayor of the municipality of Aguililla in western Mexico, reported the Prosecutor’s Office.

The former official, Adalberto Comparán, known as Fruto, 57, and Alfonso Rustrián, 34, were detained “for extradition purposes” in an exclusive sector in the south of Guatemala City, the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) said in a statement.

Both are “required” by a court in the state of Florida (south) for the trafficking of methamphetamine from Mexico to state joined, detailed the prosecution.

The statement indicated that the former mayor of Aguililla, located in Michoacán, “is a leader of the Cartel joined and a former member of the defunct Knights Templar Cartel and is a heroin and methamphetamine distributor from Michoacán, Mexico, for state joined”.

According to the accusation, the detainees participated in the transfer of drugs to the state from Florida, Texas and Georgia, in the American South.

Images released by the prosecution showed Comparán and Rustrián being detained in a parking lot without resistance.