Remains found near Guadalajara were of workers who tried to quit drug cartel call center

BY MARK STEVENSON
| ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUNE 7, 2023 1:49 AM PT

MEXICO CITY — Human remains discovered in dozens of bags in Mexico last week belonged to as many as eight young workers who had apparently tried to quit their jobs at a call center run by a violent drug cartel that targeted Americans in a real estate scam, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday.

The officials confirmed the brutal story that began late last month when relatives reported the young people missing after they did not return from work in an office near the western city of Guadalajara.

Suspicions and fears rose last week when heaps of hacked-up body parts were found in plastic bags.
Forensic examiners in the western state of Jalisco said in a statement Monday that tests had confirmed that the bodies belonged to the missing call center workers.

Six men and two women were reported missing between May 20 and May 22, but the forensic examiners did not mention the number of confirmed identities. There had been doubts about whether one of those reported missing was among the bodies found.

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