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Man recants, is charged in Juárez killing (5:20 p.m.)

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 02/20/2007 05:06:40 PM MST

Four days after a Juárez man testified that he had been pressured by Juárez police into inventing gruesome scenarios of murders of women, Juárez police arrested him and charged him with murder.
Officials at the Chihuahua state attorney general's office denied that Monday's arrest of Alejandro Delgado Valles, 30, was in retaliation for his change of heart. Delgado had been the prosecution's main witness against Edgar Alvarez Cruz, a Denver immigrant suspected of killing more than 10 women in Juárez.

On Feb. 15, Delgado said he was pressured and guided by police when he pointed the finger at his friend Alvarez Cruz but that it was "all a lie."

Attorney general spokesman Rene Medrano said Monday's arrest was "in no way connected" with Delgado's recanting.

"The prosecutors continue their investigation and new evidence surfaces," he said.

Delgado was charged with the murder of one woman and taken into custody. Medrano said he didn't know whether Delgado was charged with the murder of 17-year-old Mayra Juliana Reyes, the only murder with which Alvarez Cruz was charged. Alvarez Cruz said he is innocent.
The case started when a third friend, Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz, was captured by U.S. immigration officials in Hudspeth County and volunteered some information about what he said was his involvement and that of Alvarez Cruz and Delgado in the murders. Family members of the three men have shed doubt on Granados' mental stability.

Two other men were previously charged with Mayra's murder and the murder's of seven other women found dead in an abandoned cotton field in Juárez in 2001. These men were convicted and later cleared. One spent four years in prison and the other died behind bars.

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