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 more in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.D-N-A tests show the same assailant was involved in eight of those rapes, while more rapes fit the same pattern in which an assailant entered residences through a window in the pre-dawn hours. Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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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
91 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Mexico
Mexican authorities had arrested 91 illegal immigrants including 13 children, the government said on Sunday.
The National Immigration Service said it had arrested 13 children from El Salvador and Honduras in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo.
They were separately found in a freight train wagon and at the citys bus station. The children, who were between two and 12 years old, were traveling in small family groups.
Some 1,800 illegal immigrants, most of them from Central America, have been arrested in the the northern Mexican state of Coahuila since the beginning of this
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
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
3 arrested in Mexico rape, killing of teen
Three men have been arrested in the Christmas Eve rape and slaying of a 17-year-old girl in this violent city on Mexico's northern border, authorities said Thursday.
According to statements from two of the suspects, the three men were drinking with Claudia Flores Javier in her home in the early hours of Dec. 24 when one of them proposed having sex with her. She refused before the three raped her, said Claudia Elena Banuelos, spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office.
One of the men responded to Flores' resistance by hitting her several times on
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
Fugitives from Mexico hide in the bustle of Los Angeles
The killers cross the U.S.-Mexico border, assume new identities, get jobs, blend in among Spanish speakers and sometimes enjoy freedom for years.
But these fugitives from the law aren't border-jumpers heading south. As the recent arrest of one of Mexico's most notorious fugitives at a modest home outside Los Angeles showed, some criminals escape justice by heading north.
In the last 10 months, federal immigration officials have helped locate 13 Mexican murder suspects, along with hundreds of other criminals, hiding in plain sight in the Los Angeles area.
Alfredo RÃos Galeana,
Mexico arrests former police official in 1975 kidnap, disappearance of leftist rebel
Police on Thursday arrested Carlos Solana Macias, a former police director in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, for the 1975 kidnapping of leftist rebel Jesus Piedra Ibarra, who was never seen again.
It was the latest chapter in Mexico's uneven efforts to prosecute political crimes of the 1960s and 70s. Piedra Ibarra's mother, Rosario Ibarra, has fought a 30-year struggle for justice in her son's case.
Solana Macias was arrested while driving in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood, and will be transferred to Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo
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
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.
He
