Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez's Alleged Killer Arrested: Official

The alleged perpetrator behind the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez a long-time AFP collaborator killed in May 2017

Mexico City, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Apr, 2018 ) :The alleged perpetrator behind the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez -- a long-time AFP collaborator killed in May 2017 is in police custody, Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete said Monday.

"A few moments ago, they detained the alleged perpetrator of the murder of journalist Javier Valdez, whose life was unfortunately taken last year in #Sinaloa," tweeted Navarrete. Valdez, an award-winning journalist who covered Mexico's powerful drug cartels, was gunned down in broad daylight on May 15 outside the offices of Riodoce, the newspaper he co-founded in Culiacan, the capital of his native Sinaloa state.

He was 50 years old. He was one of the most prominent chroniclers of Mexico's deadly drug war in a state where Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, now imprisoned in the United States, once ruled.