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 southern Dallas about a week later.
Police say Jose Felix, a former teacher, was Acevedo’s accomplice in the kidnapping and slaying.
In the weeks following the slaying, Felix was captured in Chicago. He was about to board a plane to Guadalajara, Mexico, where Acevedo had flown a day earlier. Felix’s trial on capital murder charges is set for Jan. 30.
Bailey said Acevedos’ arrest came as the result of a provisional warrant forwarded to Mexico from U.S. authorities for “unlawful fight to avoid prosecution.”
“So the process will start to bring him back to Dallas to face murder charges,” she told The Dallas Morning News in the newspaper’s online editions Friday.
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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
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
Cdn. reportedly home after being held in Mexico
A Mississauga, Ont. man who was forced to spend a night in a Mexican jail because his name appears on a U.S. no-fly list is reportedly back home on Saturday.
American fighter jets tailed an Air Transat flight earlier this week, following 38-year-old Canadian citizen Sami Kahil and his family en route to Mexico from Toronto, the Toronto Star reported.
Kahil was on his way to an all-inclusive vacation in Ixtapa with his wife, Rima Masri, and their two sons, eight-year-old Karim and six-year-old Adam.
During a stopover in Acapulco on Thursday afternoon, his family was
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
MEXICO'S PLAN PUTS AMERICAN VALUES TO THE TEST
Behind the illegal immigrants waving Mexican and Salvadoran flags in Los Angeles last week; behind the Mexican girl in Arlington, Va., who was quoted as saying on radio, "Citizens -- what are they for? We do all the work"; behind the antiquated calls for taking back the Southwest in the name of a Mexican Aztlan -- there is a plan.
I am not saying that this plan, propagated by Mexico City, could challenge the lies, secrecy and Machiavellian scheming of American war plans in the Middle East. I am not saying that
Duane Dog Chapman Says Feds Sold Him Out to Mexico in Exchange for Drug Lord
Bounty hunter Duane Dog Chapman says U.S. officials may have sold him out to Mexico in exchange for a convicted drug lord.
Chapman, the star of A&Es Dog the Bounty Hunter, was arrested last week by U.S. marshals during an early morning raid on his Hawaii home on charges related to his 2003 capture of fugitive rapist Andrew Luster.
Mexico - where bounty hunting is illegal - claims Chapman jumped bail after being charged with illegally detaining Luster in June 2003.
But Dog and his family have suggested that
La Torre Latinoamericana
In the corner of Cardinal red Madero and Lazaro (before San Juan de Letrán) the famous Latin American Tower, the building upper of the country is until the construction of the tower of PEMEX. To the north the Palace of Beautiful Arts can be admired, imposing construction of marble of Carrara that lodges in its interior murals of Creek, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo and González Camarena. Next to the palace is the Central Tree-lined avenue with the Chamber to Juárez in its South part. A street advanced sees the recent Seat of Solidarity. The Latin American Torre is
Orange County man arrested in Mexico
Mexican police detained a 36-year-old Orange County man yesterday who had an outstanding arrest warrant in the United States, Mexican authorities said.
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
