Overview

• Prosecutors say two co-defendants were arrested in Los Angeles and Chicago, while three others are fugitives believed to be in Mexico and subject to U.S. extradition requests.
• Federal agents executed raids in Los Angeles tied to the case, and officials say evidence-gathering continues.
• The indictment alleges a decades-long enterprise that used church authority to coerce victims, produced sadistic child sexual abuse material, obstructed investigations, and engaged in cash smuggling and illegal structuring.
• Filings describe a multi-generational pattern of abuse reaching back to García’s father, Samuel Joaquín Flores, and grandfather, Eusebio Joaquín González.
• Mexico’s president said there is no information about a domestic investigation or U.S. requests related to the case at this time.