Mexico snares Boston bomb hoax suspect
A man accused of making a phony threat of a nuclear attack on Boston earlier this year has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said Monday.
The scare in January prompted authorities to alert the public and to increase security at the airport and on the subway. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney skipped President Bush’s inauguration to return to Boston. Within days, the FBI called it a false alarm.
Mexican authorities arrested Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinonez, 34, early Saturday in Mexicali, a border city about 120 miles east of San Diego, the FBI said.
A three-count indictment charges Beltran with perpetrating a terrorist hoax and making false statements about an alleged plot to smuggle a nuclear warhead into the U.S. from Mexico.
U.S. authorities expect he will be extradited within 60 days, said FBI spokeswoman Jan Caldwell. He would be tried in San Diego.
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Small bomb goes off at Spanish-owned bank in Mexico
A small bomb went off inside a Spanish-owned bank in a residential area near Mexico City on Friday, damaging office furniture and shattering windows.
"We don't have reports of any victims, we have initiated an investigation," Alfonso Navarrete, attorney general for the State of Mexico, told broadcaster Televisa.
The television station said fliers with "Mexico united against poverty" and "No to Mexico's support of the United States" were found inside the BBVA-Bancomer bank, a unit of Spain's BBVA .
No group had claimed responsibility for the explosion in Atizapan, north of the capital.
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Boston retiree kayaks rivers on way to Gulf of Mexico
As he pitches his tent on a lone embankment on the Mississippi River, Bob Alessio of Boston is making a trek of a lifetime. The 62-year-old Alessio is retired but has plans to kayak to the Gulf of Mexico.
He stopped in Helena-West Helena recently because of high winds and the threat of thunderstorms. Alessio started his journey in New Kensington, Pa., at Port Allegheny. There, at the headwaters of the Allegheny River, he paddled the 270 miles to Pittsburgh, where the Allegheny joins the Monongahela River coming up from West Virginia
Mexico to return Denver murder suspect
A Mexican suspect in the shooting death of a Denver detective has not appealed his extradition and will be sent back from his Mexico City jail cell.
Raul Gomez-Garcia, 20, did not appeal the Mexican government`s extradition decision issued on Thanksgiving Day, and the 15-day appeal period has passed, the Denver Post reported.
Gomez-Garcia is charged with second-degree murder in Donald Young`s death and with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Detective John Bishop. He is accused of ambushing the two uniformed off-duty detectives while they provided security at a party at a social hall
Mexico extradites drug lord suspect
Alleged drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix was extradited to the United States on Saturday to face drug charges, becoming the first major Mexican drug lord suspect to be sent north for trial.
Mexicos extradition of the man who is suspected of having once run the Arellano Félix drug clan was a victory for U.S. officials, who have been pushing Mexico to send them more drug lords.
Arellano Félix was loaded into a helicopter in Matamoros, then flown across the border and handed over to Texas officials in Brownsville after serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico. He will
Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of rapes
Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Ulises Ernesto Mijangos (mee-HAN'-goes) was arrested Tuesday in Chihuahua -- the capital city of the state of the same name. State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez says Mijangos was initial charged in a break-in but was later identified as a sex-crimes suspect by state prosecutors.
Chihuahua authorities are seeking the man responsible for at least two rapes since 2003 in the Chihuahua's capital and seven
Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of rapes
Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Ulises Ernesto Mijangos (mee-HAN'-goes) was arrested Tuesday in Chihuahua -- the capital city of the state of the same name. State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez says Mijangos was initial charged in a break-in but was later identified as a sex-crimes suspect by state prosecutors.
Chihuahua authorities are seeking the man responsible for at least two rapes since 2003 in the Chihuahua's capital and seven
Suspect held in Mexico
By Hugh Dellios and David Heinzmann, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune foreign correspondent Hugh Dellios reported from Mexico, and staff reporter David Heinzmann reported from Chicago.
The FBI and Mexican authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged in the January 2005 slaying of a restaurant hostess and Evanston native who was beaten and strangled in her North Side apartment.
Roberto Ramirez, 25, was identified almost immediately as the main suspect in the Jan. 24 killing of Melissa Dorner, 21, whose body was found in her apartment. Ramirez who lived in the same building in the 6100 block of North
To Think of Leaving Mexico
Hearts and minds merge when people decide where their hopes lie
Saul climbs out of a pile of cotton. He wants to be a doctor. His teachers at the local elementary school skipped out after lunch. ''I won't learn my medicine very well," Saul says.
The ''lagoon rain" starts to fall. In the desert of northern Mexico, the rain is dust, thrown by wind. It sets upon the loading yard behind a factory with a clattering contraption marked ''Lummus Cotton Gin Company," ''Columbus, GA USA," and ''Patented July 23, 1935."
Battened tarps squirm and cough. The tractor men
Mexico assails US border fence immigration bill
A bill moving through the U.S. Congress that demands security fencing with lights and cameras be built along the Mexico-U.S. border will not stop the flood of illegal immigrants, Mexico said Friday.
The House of Representatives voted 260-159 late Thursday to require the high-tech fencing along parts of the U.S. border, while seemingly moving away from a White House plan for immigration reform that includes a guest worker program and is backed by Mexico.
Mexican presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said Mexico would keep pushing for a comprehensive immigration reform that expands temporary worker programs.
"An immigration reform
California health costs send patients to Mexico facilities
There are world-class hospitals in San Diego, not far from where Luis Gonzales lives. But when he or a member of his family needs routine health services, they drive 50 miles south to a clinic in Tijuana.
The Gonzaleses are members of a Blue Shield of California HMO that provides the family's nonemergency care in Mexico. They are among 20,000 California workers and dependents in plans that cost 40 to 50 percent less than comparable care in the United States because doctor's visits are outsourced south of the border.
With healthcare costs in the
