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Feds Arrest Fugitive Criminal Alien Convicted of Shooting Border Patrol Agent
July 08, 2006 07:33 AM EST

by Jim Kouri - PHOENIX, AZ -- A Mexican national convicted of shooting and critically wounding a Border Patrol agent nearly two decades ago in southern Arizona was captured Friday facing federal prosecution again following his arrest.

Humberto Fuentes, 51, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and removal officers at his residence in East Phoenix after ICE received a tip from another federal agency that he had returned to the United States illegally.

Fuentes made his initial appearance in federal court here at 3:00 p.m. Friday to face a felony charge of re-entry after deportation.

Fuentes was convicted and previously deported for shooting and critically wounding Border Patrol Agent Frank J. Hawkins in 1978, near the port of entry at San Luis. After assaulting Hawkins, Fuentes fled to Mexico, but was captured the same day by Mexican authorities. Fuentes was charged with illegal importation of a firearm, but Mexican officials failed to prosecute him and he was soon released.

Fuentes re-entered the United States illegally, but was eventually located and apprehended by agents with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in Tempe in August 1987. Fuentes was convicted of assaulting Hawkins and, after serving a sentence in federal prison, was deported from the United States in July 1991.