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, with a female acquaintance after Cave’s mutilated body was found Thursday in his apartment near the university.
The woman was not arrested.
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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
College student still missing in Mexico
A college student was still missing Tuesday after a weekend night out with friends in Matamoros, Mexico. Friends of Juan Carlos "Charlie" Ramos, 24, said they were about to cross back to the United States on Saturday, when Ramos left them after a fight about who would pay the border-crossing fee. Ramos attends the University of Texas at Brownsville-Texas Southmost College. Police said he isn't in Matamoros hospitals or jails.
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But nobody alerted Mexico of Amber Alert
For the first time in Arizona Amber Alert's three-year history, it's likely that an accused abductor and his two children have slipped across the border and disappeared into Mexico.
And while U.S. authorities have scoured the state for Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala and the children, Mexican law enforcement and immigration officials knew little of the manhunt until they were contacted by Maricopa County sheriff's investigators three days later.
The case adds to the growing concern that Mexican law enforcement is not included in the Amber Alert network. They are only notified of potential border-crossing kidnappers if and
No arrest for Mexico ex-president
A Mexican judge has refused to issue an arrest warrant for a former president accused of genocide.
The judge said the charges against Luis Echeverria did not amount to genocide.
Mr Echeverria, now 83, was accused of ordering a massacre of student protesters in 1968, days before the Olympic Games opened in Mexico City.
As many as 300 people may have died when government agents hidden among regular soldiers opened fire on students, prosecutors allege.
Judge Ranulfo Castillo said several other officials charged with Mr Echeverria over the massacre could not be prosecuted because the statute
Mexico OKs extradition in Colo. shooting
A man accused of killing a Denver police officer can be extradited to the United States, the Consulate General of Mexico said.
Raul Gomez-Garcia was charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of Detective Donald Young and the wounding of Detective John H. Bishop in May while the men were working off-duty as security for a party.
He has been jailed in Mexico since he was captured there in June.
Gomez-Garcia has 15 working days to appeal, the Mexican Consulate said in a news release Thursday. If he does not, he could be returned to
Mexico ex-leader genocide charge
Special prosecutors in Mexico have filed genocide and kidnapping charges against a former Mexican president.
Luis Echeverria, now 83, is accused of ordering a massacre of student protesters in 1968, days before the Olympic Games opened in Mexico City.
As many as 300 people may have died when government agents hidden among regular soldiers opened fire on students, prosecutors allege.
A Mexico City judge must now rule on whether the case should go to trial.
Mr Echeverria is the first former Mexican president to face the possibility of charges for human rights abuses allegedly committed during his
Mexico charges seven cops with kidnapping
Mexican prosecutors announced Thursday they have filed kidnapping and organize crime charges against seven police officers accused of protecting hit men working for the feared Tijuana-based Arellano Felix drug cartel.
The men served in the police department in Ensenada, a tourist town 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of the California border, and they allegedly kidnapped people involved in the drug trade and held them for ransom, the Attorney General's Office said in a press statement.
They also protected members of the "Black Commando," a group of hit men working for the Arellano Felix cartel, authorities said.
They are
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
Mother Captured With Young Son 3 Years After Fleeing Country
New Braunfels police ended a nearly three-year search Saturday when they arrested a mother who fled the country with her child.
Suzanne Dewalt, 42, is being held at the Comal County Jail, while her son, Jeremy, 7, has been reunited with his father, Michael.
"I suppose somebody there tipped them off," said Suzanne's mother Margaret Kearns. "I don't know, but it was our worst nightmare."
On Oct. 25, 2002 Dewalt fled with Jeremy after a jury awarded custody of the boy to his father.
Dewalt alleges Michael sexually abused Jeremy, however, no charges were
Border crisis confounds US, Mexico
The declaration of states of emergency in New Mexico and Arizona over growing cross-border smuggling and violence is only the tip of the iceberg. And there doesn`t seem to be anything effective Washington and Mexico City can do to reverse it.
Critics of Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona charge that they declared states of emergency in their Southwestern states as a cynical political ploy aimed at strengthening their Democratic Party`s prospects for the next congressional and presidential elections, and furthering their own standings within it.
It is certainly the case that
