Thread: Alleged drug dealer, deportee accused of murder arrested in

Alleged drug dealer, deportee accused of murder arrested in Juárez
Marisela Ortega Lozano / El Paso Times
Posted: 08/27/2011 02:55:52 PM MDT

An alleged drug dealer, who managed to hide for nine years in the United States as an undocumented immigrant, was arrested by Mexican authorities on charges of aggravated homicide against one of his bosses in the drug trafficking business, officials said.

Chihuahua state police officers executed Saturday an arrest warrant issued against Bernabé Villalobos Tovar, aka "El Taco," 45, in the Juárez downtown area.

The warrant, issued by a judge August 28, 2002, stem from the killing against Javier RodrÃ*guez Acosta, aka "El Tucán," 37, who allegedly failed to pay a drug shipment smuggled by the alleged killer from San Isidro rural town in Juárez to the United States, Chihuahua prosecutors said.

The day of the homicide, detectives said, Villalobos Tovar, joined by two individuals identified only as "El Nan" and "El Cholo," showed up at the victim's grandmother's home in San Isidro, demanding payment for the smuggling of the drugs.

But when the victim reportedly engaged in a verbal altercation with his alleged killers, they shot at him with a 9mm gun in the head, officials said. The body, with the left wrist and right ankle tied up, was dropped on a desert area in Loma Blanca rural town, near Juárez.

According to Chihuahua law enforcement authorities, Villalobos said he managed to live illegally in the United States from 2002 to 2011, but he was deported to Juárez from unknown reasons.

Villalobos was a drug dealer, authorities said.

Marisela Ortega Lozano,
mortega@elpasotimes.com; 542-6077

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_18771302

It was a good thing that he was deported before Obama gave him amnesty.