Fugitive arrested in ‘01 slaying of Tucson teen

By Fernanda Echavarri, Arizona Daily Star Arizona Daily Star
Posted: Thursday, April 7, 2011 12:47 pm


Photo courtesy of U.S. Marshals Max Montijo-La Madrid is suspected of killing a 16-year-old girl in 2001. He was a fugitive in Mexico for the past nine years and is now in the custody of Tucson police.

The man wanted in the 2001 slaying of a teen girl at a Jack in the Box is now in custody of local police after his extradition from Mexico, police said Thursday.

Max Montijo-La Madrid is suspected of shooting and killing 16-year-old Tanee Natividad on Nov. 18, 2001, police said.

The 34-year-old was on the run in Mexico for nine years until Mexican law enforcement arrested him in Hermosillo Oct. 2010, according to the U.S. marshals. Montijo-La Madrid was taken to Mexico City where had been waiting extradition to Pima County.

He was flown to Tucson and taken to Tucson police headquarters downtown earlier today, said Sgt Matt Ronstadt, a police spokesman.

Montijo-La Madrid is suspected of firing a car Natividad was riding in, thinking it was the person who shot his friend Alfredo “Juniorâ€