Federal authorities in Mexico say they’ve caught the fugitive mayor of Iguala and his wife, from the town where 43 students from a teachers college were last seen being forced into the backs of police vehicles in late September. 

Jose Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de Los Angeles Pineda owned several jewelry stores and were used to living in luxury in the southern town in Guerrero state.  Officers tracked them down to a run down, possibly-abandoned home in a gritty section of in Mexico City’s densely populated Iztapalapa district. 

Cops hauled the couple to the attorney general’s office to answer allegations that they ordered Iguala’s police to attack the students over fears they would interrupt a speech Pineda was giving as head of the local child protection agency.  More than 50 people, including several Iguala Police officials and officers, were arrested.  And weeks of searching have unearthed several mass graves, but no sign of the 43.