María Villar got into what she believed was an authorized taxi in Santa Fe neighborhood on Sept. 13, shortly after the taxi stopped and the man now arrested got in.
“El Z-12” served in the Mexican Army from 1990 to 1999.
Crime reporter Anabel Flores Salazar was dragged from her home in Veracruz by gunmen on February 8; her body was found on an abandoned road in Puebla.
The birds, some of them protected by the Ministry of the Environment, were hidden inside the man's luggage.
39-year-old Johnny Lewis Hartley and 43-year-old Mercy Mary Becerra were booked in San Diego on one count of murder each, after Mexican officials turned them over to U.S. authorities.
A mayor and four local police officers have been arrested in connection with the murder of 10 people who were killed and burned in Cuitzeo, Michoacán.
The drug lord was flown to Mexico City late Wednesday and then transported to the Altiplano prison outside the capital, the same prison that Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped from in 2015.
The first suspect charged in the kidnapping of Alan Pulido has given a statement to prosecutors confessing to the crime.
Many of those who protested outside the arena expressed anger over Trump's views on immigration.