http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/new ... 059507.htm
July 5, 2005

Gas-smuggling suspect to be returned to Mexico
Associated Press

HOUSTON - A Mexican citizen wanted in his home country for questioning in a journalist's death and suspected of taking part in a gasoline smuggling network will be returned to Mexico, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Mexican authorities are investigating whether Martin Rojas was involved in the April killing of journalist Raul Gibb Guerrero, director of the newspaper La Opinion in northern Veracruz.

U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Rojas, 41, in Houston on Saturday after Mexican authorities got a tip on his whereabouts, said ICE spokeswoman Luisa Deason.

He is being held at an immigration detention center in Houston until he is deported. Deason said she didn't know when that would be.

Gibb Guerrero's shooting was just one in a string of recent deadly attacks against editors and reporters in Mexico.

His paper had written about corruption within Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos.

Mexican authorities are struggling to stop the theft of gasoline from Pemex, as the company is known. The smuggling network, in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, supplies an extensive black market for fuel.

President Vicente Fox announced in May he will appoint special prosecutors in all 31 of Mexico's states to investigate crimes against journalists.