A man named Miguel Angel Landa Bahena has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 student teachers that took place last year in southern Mexico.

Landa Bahena was identified as a member of the inner circle of a fugitive named Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, a man who is suspected of being the head of a drug gang that operates in the state of Guerrero where the students disappeared.

As reported in Fox News Latino, The National Security Commission has stated that Landa Bahena was captured as part of what was described as "the work to identify, locate and arrest the material authors of the events that occurred in Iguala."

There have been at least 105 suspects arrested in connection with the missing 43 students, a number which includes police officers as well as public officials.

On Sept. 26, 2014, municipal police officers opened fire on students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, wounding 25 people and killing in six. The 43 students who were detained by the police were then handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.

Last winter five suspects involved in the incident identified Landa Bahena as one of the individuals behind the attack on the student teachers and an arrest warrant was issued for him.

According to the commission Landa Bahena was armed at the time of his arrest.

Following his detainment he was was turned over to federal prosecutors.

Jesus Murillo Karam, the former Attorney General, stated in a Jan. 27 press conference that there was sufficient scientific evidence to conclude that the missing 43 students were murdered and that their bodies were burned by Guerreros Unidos drug cartel members at the dump in Cocula. Their ashes, he said, were dumped in the San Juan River.

Murillo Karam’s statement has been questioned by families of the missing students.