The Trump administration labored with the Mexican authorities to arrest one other individual on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wished” checklist, U.S. officers informed CBS Information on Saturday.
The FBI plans to extradite Alejandro Rosales Castillo, 27, who was wished within the killing 9 years in the past of a girl he labored with at a North Carolina restaurant, Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le.
The information comes as President Trump has threatened motion towards Mexican drug cartels by U.S. forces. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, spoke with Mr. Trump on Monday. A United States navy raid on Venezuela that deposed then-president Nicolás Maduro earlier this month fueled hypothesis Mr. Trump might quickly flip American forces on different nations, significantly Mexico and Cuba.
In 2016, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police mentioned Le, 23, was Castillo’s former girlfriend. Authorities discovered her car at a bus station in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 15, 2016, and located her physique on August 17, 2016, in a wooded space in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, with a gunshot wound to her head, The Charlotte Observer reported on the time.
The case was featured in a real crime present, “In Pursuit with John Walsh,” in 2020. Castillo, who officers mentioned is a U.S. citizen, was added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wished” checklist in 2017.
Castillo was arrested in Mexico on Friday and might be extradited to North Carolina, officers informed CBS Information.
One other individual concerned within the case, Ahmia Feaster, fled to Mexico and turned himself into authorities in Aguas Calientes, Mexico on October 2017, CBS affiliate WBTV reported on the time.
Authorities have introduced in 5 folks on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wished” checklist within the final 12 months. FBI Director Kash Patel mentioned in a press release on Saturday that this tally was “no accident.”
“When you have got an administration who provides regulation enforcement the assist to execute a mission, they get the job completed like no person else,” he mentioned. “That is excellent work from our Charlotte staff, FBI Legat Mexico, native and federal companions, and companions in Mexico – and we will now start the method of delivering long-awaited justice for Sandy Ly Le’s household.”
In March, Mexico handed over Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, allegedly a key senior chief of MS-13 who has been directing gang exercise in the US, Mexico, and El Salvador, after his arrest in Veracruz, officers mentioned.
