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- A Mexican bride was arrested on her wedding day on the way to church. Her husband managed to escape.
- A photo shared by prosecutors shows the bride handcuffed in her wedding dress.
- The couple, alongside several accomplices, are accused of extorting chicken and egg merchants.
A Mexican bride's wedding day took an unexpected turn last month as she found herself in handcuffs instead of saying "I do."
The woman, identified only as Nancy N., was arrested on the day she was due to get married. Her husband-to-be managed to evade capture, Mexico State's Attorney General's Office said in a news release.
Mexico state prosecutors said the woman was apprehended and is accused of taking part in an extortion scheme alongside her would-be husband and six others.
A picture shared by the Attorney General's office shows the bride, still wearing a white wedding gown, in handcuffs with law enforcement officers by her side.
According to the local newspaper, El Sol de Toluca, she was detained while getting out of her vehicle to enter the church in Villa Guerrero after police ambushed the ceremony looking for suspects.
Although the groom, identified as Clemente N., or by the alias "El Ratón," was also wanted by police, he managed to escape and avoid arrest, the newspaper reported.
The couple was part of a group accused by state prosecutors of extorting chicken and egg merchants near Toluca, Mexico.
The group is also suspected of kidnapping workers from a poultry shop, state prosecutors said in the news release.
According to CBS News, the suspects have ties to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which was blamed earlier this month for a deadly drone attack in Guerrero, Mexico.
In a separate incident last month, residents of Texcapilla killed 10 members of the cartel, which had attempted to extort money from local farmers.
Prosecutors deemed the villages to be acting in self-defense and decided not to press charges against them, BBC News reported at the time.
According to The New York Times, extortion has become far more common in Mexico in recent years, indicating a shift in focus for criminal organizations away from solely focusing on drug trafficking.