Mexico’s most wanted man may be in Guatemala-police
Mexico’s most wanted man, drug lord Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, may have entered neighboring Guatemala where police are searching for him, authorities said on Friday.
“We have not yet determined if he is here, but we have evidence that leads us to believe he is inside our territory,” Guatemala’s anti-drug police chief Adan Castillo told a news conference.
Guzman has been sought in Mexico since he escaped from a high-security jail in 2001. He has engaged in a fierce war with rival drug barons that has killed more than 1,000 people this year.
The United States is also seeking Guzman on drug charges and has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
Castillo said Guatemalan police had information that Guzman, the head of a drug smuggling ring from the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, may have attended parties at ranches in the north and west of the country.
Guatemala has a serious drug smuggling problem and is a major stopping off point on the route from South America to the United States. Guzman was arrested there in 1993.
Fredy Fernandez, Guatemalan’s anti-drug prosecutor, said Guzman could be living in Guatemala and operating his drug business from the Central American nation.
Mexican police said this week they had arrested seven former members of a Guatemalan elite military unit, known as Kaibiles, who had crossed to Mexico to supposedly work for drug gangs.
Source: alertnet.org
Police arrest man wanted in Ill., Mexico
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Juan Javier Tapia, 24, who was been featured on the television show Americas Most Wanted, was arrested Sunday after forcing his way into an apartment and trying to fight with a resident there.
Gwinnett County police arrived to find Tapia had eaten all the residents food and had drunk all of his alcohol, said Darren Moloney, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department. The officers found Tapia
FBI arrests man wanted for murder in Mexico
An illegal immigrant residing in Watertown who was arrested last week in the murder of a Mexican police officer was turned over to Mexican authorities Tuesday, according to a federal immigration spokeswoman.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Gail Montenegro said Hector Cepeda-Vargas, 38, was placed on a government flight from Chicago, Ill., to El Paso, Texas, on Friday and was walked across the border and turned over to Mexican authorities Tuesday.
Montenegro said Cepeda-Vargas had fled Mexico and was living at 133 Dewey Ave. in Watertown under the alias Daniel de Dioz-Lopez. She
Police chase naked driver into Mexico
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The man was first observed parked in an alleyand exposing himself about 12:15 p.m. near Texas Street in North Park. Responding officers tried to stop the truck, but the driver sped off, San Diego police Sgt. Jim Schorr said.
During a police chase, the driver avoided three spike strips set down on roadways by officers at various locations.
On Interstate 5 at Interstate 905, the man
Arizona Fugitive Detained in Mexico
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Gary Edward Lasher, 28, was arrested Wednesday in the Caribbean resort city Playa del Carmen, said the official, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
Lasher is wanted in Oxnard, Calif., for allegedly beating his mother-in-law unconscious and placing her in his car trunk before she was able to escape. He has been charged with kidnapping, kidnapping for ransom, and false imprisonment with violence in a California state arrest
Ariz. man drowns after trying to save niece in Mexico
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It occurred in the Gulf of California resort city of Puerto Penasco - commonly known as Rocky Point in Arizona.
Police said the little girl was swimming when she was caught by high waves that pulled her out to sea.
Police said her 21-year-old uncle, Steven Rodriguez, jumped into the ocean to save the girl. They said a larger wave tore the girl away from Rodriguez. The girl was carried safely back to shore,
Man Who Ran To Mexico With L.I. Teen Pleads Guilty To Sex Charges
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Lester Joy, 25, of Morristown, N.J., said he met the girl on the Internet and went to her house in Hampton Bays on Jan. 31, 2005.
He said he and the girl climbed out of the window and fled to Mexico.
The case was first reported as a missing teenager case, but the girl called home from Mexico two weeks later and said she wanted to come
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Victor Garcia, 36, had been living in Mexico for about a month when he was found near the Mexican port of entry across from San Ysidro, Mexican authorities said.
U.S. authorities requested assistance from their Mexican counterparts several weeks ago in tracking him down after he apparently violated parole, Mexican authorities said.
State Preventive Police identified Garcia from photo handouts and through a background check. Mexican authorities said he was identified as a
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After two years and at least 24 unsolved murders, they have one fingerprint that matches partial prints from five other cases, a modus operandi and a police sketch of what appears to be a man made up as a woman.
Investigators pieced together much of
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FBI Special Agent Lori Bailey confirmed the arrest, but would not discuss details.
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The plane went down Sunday afternoon at El Migote beach near Pie de la Cuesta, just south of Acapulco, killing pilot Ruben Fajardo and Air Force pilot Victor Serrano, said Hector Lara, an agent of the district attorney's office for the nearby city of Coyuca de Benitez.
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