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 warrant.
Lasher also is wanted in Arizona on charges of child molestation, child pornography and sexual assault to a spouse. Arizona police said they had recovered 9,000 images of child pornography on Lasher’s computer.
Lasher allegedly sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl, and is also alleged to have raped and sodomized his wife, occasionally beating her into unconsciousness. The assaults allegedly were videotaped, according to information on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Web site.
Details of Lasher’s capture were not immediately available.
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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 fugitive nabbed in Del Rio
The local U.S. Marshals Service office has picked up a man wanted in the killing of a prostitute in Mexico.
The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force took David Antonio Garza Muniz, 37, into custody Thursday as he left his home in Del Rio.
Marshals were holding him for extradition, LaFayette Collins, U.S. marshal for the Western District of Texas, said in a release.
Garza was convicted of manslaughter in the 1996 beating death of a prostitute in Mexico over a spat about money, the release said.
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Texas fugitive arrested in Mexico
A fugitive sex offender from Del Valle has been located in Mexico after being featured on America’s Most Wanted, the Texas Attorney General's office announced Tuesday.
The Attorney General’s Fugitive Unit had been seeking Charles Randall Brunson, 38, for violating his parole. Brunson was convicted in 1997 in Travis County for sexually assaulting his four-year-old daughter.
After the America’s Most Wanted report aired in late September, a couple living in Jalisco, Mexico, contacted authorities to say Brunson was living in the area. The Attorney General’s office and the U.S. Department of Justice worked with Mexican officials
Bribery scandal fugitive caught in Mexico
A real estate broker who fled after being indicted on charges related to a bribery scandal at the state Office of General Services was captured in Mexico this week.
The arrest of Richard B. Sawyer, 55, a former Clifton Park resident, caps a federal investigation that focused on the role of political contributions in the awarding of state contracts.
Sawyer was arrested Thursday in Cabo San Lucas. He will be flown back to Albany to face charges in the case, authorities said.
A federal grand jury indictment on May 12 alleges Sawyer took part in a
Company says Mexico to allow pipeline for Arizona refinery
The Mexican government will permit construction and operation of a pipeline to deliver crude oil to a proposed new Arizona gasoline refinery that would be the first such project built in the United States in nearly 30 years, the company behind the project said Tuesday.
Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma said it has reached an understanding with a Mexican ministry, the Secretariat of Energy of Mexico, regarding the pipeline, an offloading facility for tanker ships and a tank farm for temporary storage of oil.
David Traenor, a spokesman for Scottsdale-based Arizona Clean Fuels, called
Fewer Arizona families going to Mexico during Christmas break
PHOENIX Fewer families seem willing to take their annual Christmas trek to Mexico if they aren't in the U-S legally.
And that means fewer children are missing school when classes resume in January.At most schools, the break starts Friday and ends January 9th.Three years ago, principals could expect to be missing as many as 30 children after winter break. Now, they say it likely will be fewer than a dozen.Sean King of the Border Patrol in Tucson says fewer families seem to try to cross illegally at Christmas because tightened security at the
Two more busted gun trafficking to Mexico
Two more men were arrested in Arizona, part of an ongoing investigation of a gun trafficking operation selling arms in Mexico, the Arizona Daily Star reported.
The arrests of Antonio Moran, 20, and Francisco Coronado, 28, bring the number of detainees to seven in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation.
ATF agents in Arizona said some 84 assault rifles were sold to Mexican nationals over the last few weeks. Officials said they thought the weapons were being used by Mexican drug smugglers or those helping illegal aliens enter the United States.
Palo Verde Generators start crawl from Mexico
PHOENIX Drivers are advised to avoid a king-size caravan carrying nuclear-plant equipment through southern Arizona this week.
Two gigantic flatbed trucks are each carrying an 806-ton steam generator. They're already headed north through Mexico from Puerto Peqasco (pee-KAHS-co), where they were delivered by barge. At a snail's pace, the convoy will travel along Arizona 85 from Lukeville to Gila Bend, then on local roads west of 85 heading north toward the plant.
The convoy is expected to reach the border as early as today, but will take another two weeks to reach Palo Verde near Tonopah
PHOENIX, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The governor of Arizona and her counterpart in Sonora, Mexico, plan to coordinate efforts to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration on the border.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has been voicing frustration with federal officials in helping with U.S.-Mexico border issues, the Arizona Republic reported Friday. She and Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours said they were setting up plans to combat "coyotes" who smuggle people across the border and the smugglers who take drugs across.
Napolitano said she was ordering 12 Department of Public Safety officers to an auto-theft task force. Stolen cars are often used in border
It would seem to be a perfect time to invest in a new refinery.
With gas prices flirting with the $70-a-barrel mark and the nation's refining capacity strained, refiners are raking in huge profits. Further highlighting the need for more capacity are hurricanes that have battered and disrupted Gulf Coast refinery production this month.
A local group, Arizona Clean Fuels, is seeking to build the nation's first new refinery in three decades. After securing an air-quality permit this spring for a 150,000-barrel-a-day refinery, the group is courting investors to fund the $2.5 billion project, planned at an old citrus grove 40
