In July 2014, the decomposing body of Franco-American Harry Devert was found with signs of strangulation in the southwestern state of Guerrero, six months after he went missing while crossing the country on a motorcycle.
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Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman had driven to Mexico from Edmonton, Alberta, and went missing on 20 November while travelling to the city of Guadalajara to visit Coleman’s girlfriend, Andrea Gómez.
The three were arrested on low-level drug-dealing and weapons charges, but Higuera said he expects homicide charges to be filed against them soon.
Municipal and federal police uniforms were seized from the suspects, who wore them to commit highway robberies, the prosecutor said.
One of them had previously been investigated for the killing of a man in a similar robbery, prosecutors said.
Mexican authorities inspect the burnt out van belonging to missing WA surfers Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman.
The thieves allegedly shot the two Australians to death, then doused their vehicle with gasoline and set it afire.
The surfers’ burnt-out van was found with two unidentified bodies last weekend.
DNA tests are planned but the van’s identification numbers match a van owned by Coleman. It was unclear whether they were wearing the police jackets at the time they allegedly stopped the van.
The Australian Government’s Smart Traveller website warns that tourists in large camper vans have been attacked on Sinaloa roads.
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Lucas and Coleman were due to travel to the western city of Guadalajara on November 21 but never arrived, according to a message posted on social media site Facebook.
