Pictured: A Mexican woman in a wedding dress is arrested on suspicion of extorting chicken farmers.

The bride, identified as Nancy N, was detained on her big day last month

The Mexican bride appeared in a police photograph wearing a wedding dress after she and her new husband were arrested on charges of extorting poultry farmers.

The photographs show the bride, Nancy N., handcuffed and surrounded by officers with machine guns, detained during her wedding in in a major police operation late last month.

She was accused of participating in an extortion against poultry producers in the state of Mexico, which borders Mexico City.

The bride spent her wedding day in handcuffs, but her groom escaped from police.

Seven more people, including municipal police officers, were also arrested on charges including extortion and kidnapping during the raid by prosecutors on December 22.

But Nancy N's fiance, whose name was Clemente N and nicknamed Raton, or Mouse, ran away.

He is wanted for murder and authorities have called his arrest a «priority.» Police are said to have offered a reward of 300,000 pesos (£14,000) for information leading to his capture.

Prosecutors said the gang to which he and his wife belonged made threats of violence. to hunt local chicken and egg producers. , charging wholesalers two pesos (9p) per kilogram of chicken sold, and retailers five pesos (23p).

During the operation, the police arrested several people.

The extortion is believed to be linked to the Familia Michoacana, or «Family of Michoacana», one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels.

Among other alleged crimes, the Familia Michoacana is suspected of using a drone to hunt and kill five members of a rival gang in Guerrero , the brutal southern state home to the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, earlier this month.

Though it's often their fault. With the international trade in illegal drugs — and the extreme violence they use to protect their profits — generating international headlines, Mexico's cartels have also infiltrated various other sectors of the country's economy, the world's 15th largest.

These From booming business from avocado exports to tourism, often using hotels to launder profits.

But the cartels are also active in extortion, using violence to target sectors from construction to agriculture, hitting ordinary Mexicans' ability to earn a living honestly.