Thread: Mexican man arrested over death of Canadian Daniel Dion

23 November 2010 Last updated at 17:31 ET

Mexican man arrested over death of Canadian Daniel Dion

Police have arrested a man over the death of a Canadian businessman whose body was found in a car boot in Mexico.

Officials said Hector Figueroa had confessed to killing Daniel Dion in a fight, then stuffing his body in the car and setting the car on fire.

Mr Figueroa was a business associate of Mr Dion, Canadian media reported.

Mr Dion, 51, disappeared last month on a business trip to Acapulco. His charred corpse was found in a town about an hour away.

He headed EcoPurse Mexico, a company that employed Mexican prisoners and labourers to sew eco-friendly purses and said it aimed to improve the lot of poor Mexicans.

Mr Figueroa, 46, has not yet been charged over the death. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that he was a technician who had been in prison on a homicide charge when he met Mr Dion, citing a Mexican police official.

A police official told the AFP news agency the two had been drinking and arguing when the suspect beat Mr Dion to death.

Mr Dion's body was found when his family obtained GPS tracking information for a rental car he had been driving and located the burnt-out wreck with the remains inside in Chilpancingo, about 140km (90 miles) from Acapulco.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11825614

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

23 November 2010 Last updated at 17:31 ET

Mexican man arrested over death of Canadian Daniel Dion

Police have arrested a man over the death of a Canadian businessman whose body was found in a car boot in Mexico.

Officials said Hector Figueroa had confessed to killing Daniel Dion in a fight, then stuffing his body in the car and setting the car on fire.

Mr Figueroa was a business associate of Mr Dion, Canadian media reported.

Mr Dion, 51, disappeared last month on a business trip to Acapulco. His charred corpse was found in a town about an hour away.

He headed EcoPurse Mexico, a company that employed Mexican prisoners and labourers to sew eco-friendly purses and said it aimed to improve the lot of poor Mexicans.

Mr Figueroa, 46, has not yet been charged over the death. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that he was a technician who had been in prison on a homicide charge when he met Mr Dion, citing a Mexican police official.

A police official told the AFP news agency the two had been drinking and arguing when the suspect beat Mr Dion to death.

Mr Dion's body was found when his family obtained GPS tracking information for a rental car he had been driving and located the burnt-out wreck with the remains inside in Chilpancingo, about 140km (90 miles) from Acapulco.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11825614

If you go to bed with dogs, you wake up with fleas, or if you are in Mexico you may not wake up at all. When will Americans learn the cultural differences in the way Mexicans and Americans (and Canadians) generally conduct business?.......The Mexican government is corrupt to the core, and s......
runs down hill.