Suspect in lawmakers’ deaths held
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Guatemalan police captured a man they suspect of ordering the slayings of three Salvadoran politicians last year, prosecutors said. Authorities also ordered the arrest of a congressman suspected of conspiracy in the deaths.
Carlos Gutierrez, 34, was arrested near the border with El Salvador after investigators traced more than 60 telephone calls between him and the suspected killers, public prosecutor Alvaro Matus told reporters. He gave no details about Gutierrez.
Matus said an arrest warrant had been issued for Congressman Manuel Castillo.
The charred, bullet-riddled bodies of three Salvadoran members of the Central American parliament and their driver were found at the end of a dirt track Feb. 19.
Days later, four Guatemalan policemen were arrested in the crime. They were later slain inside a maximum-security prison.
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