Posted on 12/07/2007 4:25:52 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
A man who police say lived under a false name after fatally shotgunning two Houston brothers in December 1992 was arrested Thursday in a Harris County office building and booked on murder charges filed against him in 1993.
Genovevo Salinas, also known as Rodrigo Pellayo Zamora, was arrested when he showed up for a urine test at a Harris County pre-trial services office on San Jacinto Thursday afternoon, said HPD homicide Det. C.E. Elliott, who has dogged the double-killing case for 15 years.
"He had a look on his face like he had been kicked in the stomach," Elliott said of Salinas's demeanor after he was handcuffed on murder charges while he was in the county building in connection with an October 2007 arrest on drug charges.
When he was arrested on the drug charges under the Zamora name, fingerprints taken matched those of Salinas already on record, Elliott said. Salinas already had posted bond before the match was made, so police had to wait until he showed up for a court-ordered urine test, Elliott said.
"I think he thought he was cool after he got out on bond," Elliott said.
On Thursday, Salinas denied his real identity, Elliott said.
"I told him I recognized him from back then and he still denied who he was," Elliott said. "The tattoos and everything are the same."
Salinas was a suspect in the killings of Juan and Hector Garza on Dec. 18, 1992, but had fled to Mexico before detectives developed a case against him in early 1993, Elliott said.
Elliott said Houston police eventually found out where Salinas was and learned that he ended up in a Mexican prison for several years. Mexican officials refused to help get Salinas back to Texas because of the possibility he might be hit with a death sentence if convicted of killing the Garza brothers, Elliott said.
The Mexican government has repeatedly protested its citizens being faced with execution in American prisons.
"He was pretty much untouchable on the other side of the border because of their policy on capital punishment," Elliott said.
Witnesses told police in 1992 that the Garzas died when a man came to the door of their apartment at 26 Farrell, near Airline, at about 6:45 p.m. on Dec. 18, 1992.
Juan Garza, 26, who answered the door, was shot in the back and died at the scene; police said.
Hector Garza, 27, was shot inside the apartment and died soon after at Ben Taub Hospital from a wound to the upper left side of his torso, police said.
The shooter ran from the apartment and sped off in a dark-colored car, police said at the time.
In the following weeks, police developed physical evidence and talked to people who connected Salinas to the shooting, Elliott said Friday.
kevin.moran@chron.com
Maybe they should repeatedly try to keep their dirtbag criminals on their side of the border. If they would expend a little effort on patrolling their border and stopping all their freeloaders from crossing illegally then they could kill people in their own country and not be executed here.
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“Genovevo Salinas, also known as Rodrigo Pellayo Zamora, was arrested when he showed up for a urine test...”
I’ll bet that he’s pissed.....
I’ll bet that he’s pissed.....
I knew someone was going to come up with that
Never bet against us...
;-)
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I wish our American government would protest Mexico's citizens sneaking into our country illegally and spreading mayhem.
Slam the border shut anf put Mexico in the same catagory as Cuba, making it a crime for a US citizen to travel there.
It wouldent take them long to agree to anything.
Thank you, detectives.
Too bad, though, when you step on one roach like this, a thousand more scurry over the border into our country.
I hope they still made him provide the urine sample...... maybe in cases such as this one they could do it via catheter, an extra LARGE catheter......
Can’t go easy on these vicious double-murders...... fry this scumbag.
Just shotgunning the brothers that Americans themselves are unwilling to SHOTGUN...!
So take them to the town square and hang them there. Then no Mexican citizens will be faced with execution in American prisons. Problem solved.
Stupid and crooked: that’s a bad combination!
Wonder which name he’ll want to use when they strap him down?
So what this in essence means is that America is so attractive a destination (or Mexico is such a hell-hole) that even felons threatened with extradition will violate our borders to come back here (and - through a series of fortunate coincidences - subsequently be arrested on murder charges).
Or maybe is means simply that this murderer is very stupid.
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