Arrest made in deputy's death

COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS
Updated: 5:14 a.m. Monday, June 6, 2011
Published: 8:52 p.m. Sunday, June 5, 2011

SAN ANTONIO

Arrest made in deputy's death

A man was arrested Sunday on a capital murder warrant in the May slaying of a Bexar County sheriff's deputy, authorities said.

Federal and local officials arrested Mark Anthony Gonzales at his family's mobile home 15 miles south of San Antonio about 4 p.m. Sunday, after FBI agents swarmed the property, according to a sheriff's office statement.

His wife, whose name was not released, also was taken into custody for questioning Sunday night, the statement said. Neither had been booked into the Bexar County Jail, Deputy Chief Dale Bennett said.

"Everyone is really relieved because everyone's been really tense," Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz said Sunday evening.

Gonzales' arrest came two days after sheriff's Sgt. Kenneth Vann was buried after his ambush-style slaying while he was stopped at an east San Antonio intersection May 28.

Authorities say a truck matching the description of the suspect's vehicle was found registered to Gonzales at a San Antonio body shop. Investigators suspect an automatic weapon found at the Gonzales home fired the deadly shot, according to the sheriff's office.

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