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06-26-2008, 10:31 PM #1
Mexico: US hadn't asked for border-death suspect
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Mexico: US hadn't asked for border-death suspect
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN Associated Press Writer
TUCSON, Ariz.— A suspect in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent would not have been released from a Mexican prison had U.S. authorities sought his extradition or even said he was wanted on charges there, a spokesman for the Mexican government said Thursday.
It remained unclear why Jesus Navarro Montes, charged in Mexico with migrant smuggling, was released last week by a judge in the border city of Mexicali. Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said Mexican federal officials were surprised by his release and are looking for him.
Navarro was arrested in Mexico on Jan. 22 in the killing three days earlier of Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar and was held over for trial there on migrant smuggling charges.
Aguilar was run over and killed while trying to deploy spike strips to stop a drug-filled vehicle and a pickup in the southeastern California desert.
Navarro's release prompted outrage on Wednesday from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and the head of the Border Patrol agents' union.
Alday, however, said Mexican officials had asked U.S. authorities in February for evidence so that Mexico's judicial system could hold Navarro in Aguilar's death.
A spokesman for Chertoff said Justice Department officials were the appropriate people to seek comment from concerning efforts to have Navarro returned to the United States.
Debra Hartman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Diego, declined to comment Thursday on whether the U.S. had sought Navarro's extradition or arrest. Peter Carr, a spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington, also declined to comment.
Alday said Mexican federal prosecutors appealed the judge's decision to release Navarro.
He said the Mexican government would continue to work closely with U.S. authorities "to guarantee that justice is served, as was demonstrated from the beginning of this case, when Mexican state and federal authorities moved swiftly" to arrest Navarro.
He said it was possible that Navarro "might be running from everybody," including drug-smuggling operatives unhappy over attention the agent's death drew.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080626/APA/806261347"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
Benjamin Franklin
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06-27-2008, 04:17 PM #2
Mexico says U.S. didn't seek extradition
Mexico says U.S. didn't seek extradition
Suspect in killing of border agent freed
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 27, 2008
Jesús Navarro Montes
Amid fierce U.S. government protests over the release of a suspect in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Mexico yesterday pledged close cooperation with U.S. authorities. But Mexican officials said they have yet to receive a request for his extradition or arrest.
Jesús Navarro Montes, who is suspected of drug smuggling, is accused by U.S. authorities of driving a sport utility vehicle over agent Luis Aguilar in January near the U.S.-Mexico border west of Yuma. Navarro was released from a Mexicali prison earlier this month after Judge Laura Serrano Alderete, of the Baja California 12th District, cleared him of an unrelated migrant-smuggling charge.
Mexican federal prosecutors are appealing Serrano's ruling, saying it was based on a technicality. But their hands have been tied on the more serious homicide charge because the U.S. government has yet to formally demand Navarro's detention, said Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.
“To this day, the U.S. has not presented us with an extradition request, an arrest warrant, nor with evidence so we can move to prosecute him on the Aguilar case,â€"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
Benjamin Franklin
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06-27-2008, 05:24 PM #3
MEXICO: US
Sadly, this is what we have come to expect from United States Federal Authorities. There seems to be a co-ordinated effort to arrest or kill any border patrol agent who dares to do his job.
If a Border Patrol killer happens by accident to be arrested in Mexico, just let him walk............nuf said.
What good will an appeal do? This guy is long gone. Probably here in Houston, enjoying sanctuary.
Laura Loomer - Woke up this morning to a @nytimes article...
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