Summary The victims' skeletal remains were found last year near the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez.
CIUDAD JUAREZ (AP):-Mexican authorities have arrested 12 people in connection with the slayings of 11 women whose skeletal remains were found last year near the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez.
The 10 men and two women suspects include alleged drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes and small store owners who belonged to a gang that forced young women into prostitution and drug dealing.
Prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua said the gang allegedly killed the women when they were no long useful to the criminal group.
State prosecutors released photos and details of the suspects late Tuesday.
The killings had raised fears that serial-style killings had returned to Ciudad Juarez, where more than 100 women were killed in such crimes in the 1990s and early 2000s.
