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 to detain and transport him back to Texas.
Brunson was turned over to officers with the Fugitive Unit, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
“Many people have been hurt by this sex offender, including his own daughter, and I am pleased he is back in custody,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said. “I am deeply grateful to America’s Most Wanted, the brave couple who provided this crucial tip, and U.S. and Mexican authorities for helping us locate this man and bring him back for what I hope will be a long stay behind bars in Texas.”
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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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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
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
Accused Police Impersonator Arrested In Mexico
A San Antonio man who fled to Mexico after being convicted and sentenced on money laundering and wire fraud charges was arrested last week.
The Texas Attorney General's office said that Raymond D. Abreu Jr., 35, was arrested in Laredo on Sept. 21. after undercover officers lured Abreu to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where he was told that $57,000 in extortion money was waiting for him.
Abreu fled the country four years ago after being sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for impersonating a San Antonio police officer and demanded bribes from operators of illegal eight-liner games.
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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
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
UT student accused in slaying captured near Mexico border
A University of Texas student accused of fatally shooting and stabbing a woman and partially dismembering her body was arrested Tuesday near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Colton Pitonyak, 22, remained jailed in Eagle Pass. He will be sent back to Austin to face a murder charge in the death of 21-year-old Jennifer Cave, of Corpus Christi, said Austin Police Chief Stan Knee. Investigators have not said what motivated the slaying.
U.S. marshals arrested Pitonyak in Eagle Pass after Mexican authorities deported him on an immigration violation, Knee said. Pitonyak apparently fled to Piedras Negras,
Mexico arrests 17 in wave of killings
Prosecutor says gunmen linked to many of 200 drug deaths near border
Federal authorities said Monday they have arrested a group of 17 gunmen who could be responsible for many of the 200 drug-related killings this year in the state of Tamaulipas that borders Texas.
The men were detained in a house in the Tamaulipas state capital of Victoria after a Sunday morning shootout that left two police officers dead, Mexico's top drug prosecutor, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, told a news conference.
Police also arrested four women in the house and found an arsenal that included six
MEXICO CITY – Federal agents have rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Friday.
Police arrested the woman's captor, Simon Andres Garcia, during the rescue operation late Thursday in the parking lot of a Church's Chicken in Monclova, officials said in a statement. Garcia's nationality was unclear.
The woman, who was in a car with Garcia at the time of the arrest, was able to get the attention of federal authorities, the statement said. She told them she was kidnapped on Aug. 16 in San Antonio, Texas.
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