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.
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Police arrest man wanted in Ill., Mexico
A fugitive who is wanted in Illinois, Iowa and Mexico was arrested after forcing his way into an apartment and later falling asleep on the couch.
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
Arizona Fugitive Detained in Mexico
Mexican authorities have detained and begun deportation proceedings against an Arizona man formerly on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, a U.S. official said Thursday.
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
4 arrested in Mexico on child selling charges
Four people - including a U.S. citizen and a legal American permanent resident - have been arrested in this border city and charged with child selling after a couple offered $5,000 to a father in exchange for his 3-year-old son, police said Saturday.
Jose Luis Garcia told authorities he was walking with his son on Octava street in Tijuana on Friday when he was approached by a couple who said they wanted to purchase the youngster, who would then be sent to the United States by a couple who ran a child-selling
Mexico 5, Guatemala 2
Francisco Fonseca scored four goals as Mexico defeated Guatemala 5-2 on Saturday in a CONCACAF World Cup qualifier, damaging Guatemala's chances for making the tournament.
Mexico and the United States already have qualified for the 2006 World Cup, and Costa Rica claimed the third berth Saturday by beating the Americans at home.
The fourth-place team in the region - likely Guatemala or Trinidad and Tobago - will face either Bahrain or Uzbekistan in a two-game playoff.
But Guatemala's loss in this central Mexican city handed Trinidad and Tobago a two-point advantage going into the final round Wednesday. Guatemala plays
Mexico post victory over Guatemala; Trinidad & Tobago tops Panama on Match Day 9
Mexico posted a victory over Guatemala, while Trinidad & Tobago topped Panama in encounters in San Luis Potosi and Ciudad de Panamá, respectively, during Match Day 9 of the CONCACAF Final Round of World Cup Qualification on Saturday evening.
Jose Francisco Fonseca scored four times, while Guillermo Franco added another for Mexico (7-1-1, 22 Points) in the 5:2 victory over Guatemala (2-5-2, 8 Points) at the Estadio Potosino Alfonso Lastras.
Meanwhile, Stern John had the only goal of the match for Trinidad & Tobago (3-5-1, 10 Points)
Mexico: Plainclothes police gunned down
Four plainclothes police officers were shot and killed in the notoriously violent border town Nuevo Laredo by unknown gunmen, El Universal reported Friday.
The officers -- members of the intelligence branch of the Mexican Federal Preventative Police -- had their vehicle sprayed with gunfire, said witnesses.
Nuevo Laredo, along the U.S. border, is a known crossroads for drug smuggling from Mexico into the United States and has been the scene of several police killings in recent months.
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Man Who Ran To Mexico With L.I. Teen Pleads Guilty To Sex Charges
A convicted sex offender who ran off to Mexico with a 16-year-old Long Island girl has pleaded guilty to third-degree rape and sodomy.
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
American fugitive detained in Mexico
The nine-month search for a man wanted in the abduction and slaying of a Dallas restaurateur ended with an arrest in a Mexican resort town Friday.
Mexican federal authorities captured Edgar "Richie" Acevedo in Cabo San Lucas and were preparing to take the 25-year-old former waiter at an Oscar Sanchez family restaurant to Mexico City, Dallas police said.
FBI Special Agent Lori Bailey confirmed the arrest, but would not discuss details.
Sanchez was kidnapped the morning of Jan. 18 in what police believe was a staged car wreck in Dallas. His body was found in a field in
Mexico death toll rises to 250
There was a violent shudder and a roar, and then the side of a volcano gave way, burying two villages under a rush of mud and flood waters.
Residents said at least 50 people were killed in the landslide in Solola, a town close to the popular tourist destination of Lake Atitlan, that remained cut off from the outside world.
It was thought to be the worst single incident in days of flooding that have killed 250 people in southern Mexico and Central America.
"We've been pulling bodies out for two days and we've found
