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Monday, February 27, 2006 · Last updated 4:06 p.m. PT

Fugitive on FBI top 10 list arrested

By KRISTIN M. HALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A fugitive on the FBI's 10 most wanted list was arrested in Mexico on a murder charge more than three years after his girlfriend's son died of child abuse, authorities announced Monday.

Genero Espinosa Dorantes, 35, was taken into custody Saturday in the border city of Tijuana, investigators said.

Dorantes and the child's mother, Martha Patlan, had been sought since 4-year-old Luis Osvaldo Cisneros' body was found dumped in a Nashville park on Feb. 23, 2003.

The child's autopsy showed he suffered from battered child syndrome, was scalded, suffered burns from the waist down and had internal head injuries.

Nashville police said they believe the couple were in Mexico since they fled but had recently separated.

Patlan agreed to cooperate with police and was taken into custody Feb. 20 in Mexico.

Each face charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, said detective Brad Corcoran.

Corcoran said he believed Dorantes was smuggling illegal immigrants into the state at the time of the child's death.

When the couple fled Nashville, an Amber alert was issued because it was believed that they had two children with them - Luis' older sister, Mariana Cisneros, and his younger half brother, Edgar A. Espinosa.

Espinosa, 4, was living with Dorantes in Tijuana when he was arrested, authorities said. Espinosa was born in Nashville and is currently in the custody of the United States Consulate in Tijuana, police said in a news release.

Cisneros, 11, was living with Patlan and is in the custody of relatives in Mexico.

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Garza praises Mexico in arrest of U.S. criminal
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The U.S. ambassador to Mexico praised a “joint effort” with Mexico on the capture of a U.S. most-wanted fugitive


The U.S. ambassador to Mexi co on Monday credited “close co operation” between Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agencies for the weekend arrest of a fugi tive on the FBI's 10 most wanted list in connection with the killing of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son.
Genaro Espinosa Dorantes, 35, was taken into custody Saturday in the border city of Tijuana, ac cording to the FBI, although Mex ico's Attorney General's Office could not immediately confirm the report of his arrest.

“This weekend, thanks to the cooperation of law enforcement officials in Mexico and the United States, one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives is now off of the streets,” U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said in a statement.

Garza noted that Espinosa Do rantes, whose alleged crime was featured on the U.S. television program America's Most Want ed, is charged with burning, beat ing and torturing to death Luis Osvaldo Cisneros, his girlfriend's four-year-old son. The boy's body was found dumped in a park in Nashville, Tennessee on Feb. 23, 2003.

The child's mother, Martha Cano Patlan, agreed to cooperate with police and was taken into custody Feb. 20 in Dolores Hidal go, Mexico.

The child's autopsy showed he suffered from battered child syndrome, was scalded, suffered infected burns from the waist down and had internal head in juries.

Garza said that two Mexican police agencies — the Federal In vestigative Agency and the Baja California state Judicial Police, as well as the FBI, were involved in the arrest.

“The United States, and espe cially the people of Tennessee, are very grateful for the efforts of these law enforcement officers,” Garza said.

Garza noted that the extradi tion process can be lengthy, even after the United States presents all the necessary paperwork in the case, something it has 60 days to do.

“Although the extradition process often takes more than six months to a year to complete, Es pinosa Dorantes is now in a feder al prison in Mexico City and will remain there until he is returned to the United States,” Garza said.

Espinosa Dorantes faces first-degree murder charges in the boy's death. While Mexico's Supreme Court recently ruled the country can extradite sus pects who face life imprisonment abroad, Mexico still refuses to ex tradite those who face a possible death penalty.

In such cases, U.S. prosecutors provide written assurance they will not seek the death penalty, in order to win the extradition.

Nashville police said on Mon day the two suspects have been in Mexico since the investigation started in 2003, and that Espinosa Dorantes was apparently smug gling illegal immigrants into Ten nessee at the time of the murder.