Posted on 01/15/2004 9:32:57 PM PST by FITZ
A young man who allegedly took part in a 2002 attack on FBI agents at Anapra, and escaped from a juvenile detention center in New Mexico before he could stand trial, was stabbed to death in Juárez last November, Juárez police and human rights activists said this week.
Griseldo Ramirez Rodriguez, 19, died on the evening of Nov. 7, 2003, stabbed in the back by two men who were chasing him on Ugarte and Mariscal streets in the heart of Juárez's red light district.
"It appears to have been a fight between gangs," said state police spokesman Mauro Conde.
No one was arrested.
On Sept. 12, 2002, several Mexican nationals beat two FBI agents in the midst of a SWAT operation targeting train robbers at Anapra-Sunland Park. The agents, a man and a woman, were hospitalized in critical condition but survived.
As a result, 16 subjects were arrested, including Ramirez who was jailed at the Luna County Detention Center in Deming because he was 17. About two weeks later, he escaped with two other inmates.
"He was a very violent individual. He disarmed a metal pole from his bed and assaulted a female detention officer," said Art Werge, spokesman for the FBI in El Paso
The escapees also attacked a male guard, who suffered a broken arm.
Although the name released at the time was Rogelio Ramirez-Rodriguez, a human rights activist familiar with the case, confirmed it is the same person.
"We hadn't seen him since he was said to have fled back to Mexico (after the escape), but he was in touch with his family," said Jose Guadalupe Leon, president of the independent state network for human rights.
Only two men were ever sentenced for assaulting the agents - to two years in prison.
Several people are suing the U.S. government over the arrest, but Ramirez was not one of them, lawyers said.
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