The Mexican Attorney General has announced the arrest of, as well as plans to extradite, two people accused in the murder of a Toronto teacher.

Ana Laura Rodriguez Rayon, 19, and Juan Antonio Reyes Torres, 23, were arrested November 21 in Mexico, the same day a Mexican arrest warrant was issued, according to a news release.

The two are accused of killing Connie Valencia-Russo, 44, whose body was found in the trunk of her car behind a Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue West apartment building two days after she vanished from her home.

Son Nick Valencia-Russo, 14, said the arrests bring closure.

"I was always used to her being in my life, and it stopped," he told CTV Toronto's Galit Solomon on Saturday.

"Oh I was happy that they're going to be brought to justice for such a terrible thing."

Cesar Palacio, who is the boy's father and is also a Toronto city councillor, said he was told about the arrests earlier this week.

"That brought a great sense of relief, and sadness at the same time," he said.

The Spanish-language news release said the arrests were made after a request in a diplomatic note from the Canadian embassy in Mexico City.

The two suspects had allegedly used the victim's debit card in Mexico after the murder. When the victim's body was found, her credit and debit cards had been stolen.

A short time after the victim's body was found, Toronto Police released surveillance images of people they say are both Rodriguez and Reyes, who allegedly used the aliases "Ana Laura Rodrigues" and "Juan Antonio Reyes" at the time.

The couple had rented a room in the same Toronto building as Valencia-Russo's ex-husband.

They allegedly paid cash for plane tickets to Mexico the day after she is believed to have been murdered.

The two are in Mexico City prisons awaiting extradition to Canada, which has not yet been scheduled.

Toronto Police Staff Sgt. Chaz Stern told ctvtoronto.ca Saturday morning that the RCMP would follow through on extradition orders and then hand off suspects to Toronto Police.

"The RCMP would get that order first, even though... it would be our jurisdiction once the persons get here," he said.

Valencia-Russo, a French teacher, was first reported missing on July 7 after she missed a hairdressing appointment and failed to pick up her 14-year-old son, Nicholas. The boy's father is city councillor Cesar Palacio.

An autopsy showed that Valencia-Russo had been suffocated to death.