butterbean
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 Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: Mexican Killer Fighting Extradition |
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The suspect who created a national furor after shooting a sheriff's deputy in 2002 and fled to Mexico is still fighting attempts to send him back to the United States.
Armando Garcia, whose real name is Jorge Arroyo Garcia, filed a motion in a Mexican court to suspend the decision to extradite him, according to Ulises Gomez, chief of staff for Javier Potisek, deputy attorney general for Legal and International Affairs in Mexico City.
A hearing on the motion was held Sept. 25 in Mexico City. The judge hasn't yet issued a ruling.
"We are confident we will be successful in that case," Gomez said.
The legal fight is the latest hurdle in the four-year-old saga for U.S. officials in finding and returning Garcia to face the charges.
The 29-year-old is the prime suspect in the April 29, 2002, fatal shooting of Deputy David March during a traffic stop in Irwindale.
Detectives say Garcia fled to Mexico hours after the shooting. He eluded capture for nearly four years but was arrested Feb. 23 as he came out of an uncle's house in Tonala, Jalisco, Mexico. Garcia remains in the custody of Mexican authorities.
On June 26, a Mexican judge approved the request by the United States to send back Garcia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which needed to have the judicial ruling, granted the extradition July 28, Gomez said.
Garcia wants the courts to block the extradition, saying he wasn't allowed to offer evidence in the extradition process to show he shouldn't be sent back.
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