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The man wanted in the 2005 shooting death of an Army National Guardsman in Murrieta returned to California today after nearly two years hiding in Mexico. Fabian Cayetano Urrea, a 21-year-old Mead Valley man, arrived about 2 p.m. at Murrieta Police Department for questioning and booking on a murder charge for the June 2005 shooting death of Jorge Estrada. The nearly one-and-a-half year hunt for Urrea ended in January, when authorities in Culiacán, Mexico, arrested Urrea at a motorcycle shop at which he worked. "Justice has been delayed, but the victim, a brave American hero, and his family have not...

They caught him! He's been arrested ... for the 12th time!! This ugly fella has been in and out and out and in and is such a repeat offender he could serve as the mascot for the revolving door of justice. He's a former psychiatric patient, homeless with a lengthy record dating back to 1981. WHY was he loose on the street and able to attack this poor woman? Because our courts have NO spine! NO teeth! It's the 'awww, poor you' defense all over again. Oh my when will we demand much more from our judges, our courts, our...

The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. --A federal prisoner who fled after being released from custody to determine whether he could donate a kidney to his ailing son was located with his girlfriend Wednesday in Mexico. Byron Keith Perkins and Lea Ann Howard were arrested in Puerto Vallarta and were being flown to Los Angeles for a court hearing Thursday. The appearance will be to arrange for their return to Louisville, where they will face federal charges, the U.S. Marshals Service in Louisville said in a statement. Perkins failed to return to custody in January 2006 after undergoing compatibility tests to...

BOGOTA, Colombia - Authorities captured a fugitive right-wing warlord Tuesday accused in massacres and of running a murderous criminal band involved in drug trafficking and extortion, officials said. Ever Veloza, one of the few top paramilitary bosses who fled into hiding rather than embrace a government peace deal, was arrested in the turbulent banana-growing Uraba region on the Caribbean coast, police said. Better known by his alias "Hernan Hernandez," Veloza once commanded the Banana and Calima blocs of the United Self-Defense Forces, known by its Spanish initials as AUC. The two blocs are blamed for hundreds of murders of human...

the county coroner, Dr. Samuel Gerber... stated, "It's obvious that the doctor did it." He told detectives to go to the hospital where Sheppard had been taken and get a confession... Gerber finally held an inquest in a school gymnasium. More than two hundred spectators, mostly housewives, filled the seats. They laughed and hooted at testimony and cheered when Gerber had Sheppard's lawyer removed for trying to have the outbursts noted in the record. Gerber questioned Dr. Sam for five hours with no legal counsel present.... Even that was not the end. In the 1990s Sheppard's son, Samuel Reese Sheppard,...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the port of entry here apprehended a Mexican national wanted in California on sex charges. Israel Rosales-Garcia, 33, was held Tuesday after being refused entry into Canada at the adjacent Canadian port of Coutts, Customs and Border Protection said in a news release. The agency said Rosales-Garcia presented fake identification to U.S. border officers at Sweetgrass, and they determined his true identity through an automated fingerprint identification system. Rosales-Garcia is wanted by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office in California on charges of kidnapping a child under the age of 14; lewd/lascivious...

Tax protester Robert Beale has left tantalizing clues about his whereabouts in the 10 weeks since he failed to show up for his trial, prompting a federal manhunt for the North Oaks CEO who owes Uncle Sam $1.6 million. Since disappearing in August, Beale, 63, has filed a court document asserting his innocence, sent e-mails to friends and relatives and hid out in a mobile home in western Wisconsin, barely escaping a raid by law enforcement agencies. A few federal income tax critics, some of whom belong to a tax protest group that meets monthly in Maplewood, have rallied to...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A man wanted since 2001 for sex offenses in Iowa was arrested in Utah after a suspicious landlord doubted his Social Security number and called the FBI, authorities said Wednesday. Kirk Swearingen, 45, likely won't be returning to the Midwest. He was indicted on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography after agents examined compact discs in his computer case. "He's here now, and we have federal charges. We would certainly like to keep him," said Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Salt Lake City. The mandatory minimum sentence for receiving...

Adnan el Shukrijumah possesses the uncanny abilities to blend into a crowd, to alter his looks, and to assume a multitude of identities. He is the proverbial Mr. Cellophane. Few things about Shukrijumah indicate his radical Islamic orientation. He is often clean-shaven and never wears a long shirt or chews a toothpick. He has been known to have a beer on occasion (like an average American Joe), to smoke an occasional Camel, and to carry rosary beads in his pocket. He has posed as an Italian-American, a Mexican-American, a Canadian, a Saudi, a Jamaican, and a Latino from Trinidad. He...

CARROLL, N.Y. (AP) - A fugitive who once threatened to "splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County" in upstate New York surrendered without firing a shot, ending a five-month manhunt for a career criminal suspected of shooting three state troopers, one fatally. With helicopters circling above a field just over the Pennsylvania state line and SWAT teams and U.S. Marshals closing in, a gaunt and exhausted Ralph "Bucky" Phillips threw up his hands. Police ordered him to the ground, handcuffed him and sped him to New York state to face charges of attempted murder. "The bottom line is the pressure...

Cops Close In on N.Y. Trooper Shooting Suspect Friday, September 08, 2006 PHOTOS VIDEO Click image to enlarge STORIES • N.Y. Trooper Shooting Fugitive Named to Feds' '15 Most Wanted' List • Search for N.Y. Trooper Shooting Suspect Disrupts Life for Residents • Cops Press on For Fugitive Suspected of Shooting N.Y. State Troopers • Cops: 'Noose Tightening' on Trooper Shooter Fugitive • Manhunt Widens in Search for Trooper Shootings Suspect • Escaped Convict Suspect in Ambush Shooting of Two New York State Troopers CARROLL, N.Y. — Police fired at a man believed to be fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips early...

By LEWIS SNYDER 9/8/2006 - A trooper died this week. A young, useful, productive member of society — one sworn to help and protect the citizens of New York — died as the result of a gunshot wound. The shooting was very likely the cowardly deed of one Ralph Phillips — an individual who has never done anything useful in his entire life for society. An individual who, in fact, has been nothing but a drain on society since his first arrest all those years ago. I have some questions I would like to ask. To all those who thought...

FREDONIA, N.Y. - A state police official said Monday that "the noose is tightening" in the manhunt for an escaped inmate accused of a deadly police ambush, and warned hunters to stay out of the woods where the fugitive may be hiding. Hunters in rural and wooded Chautauqua County are "interfering" with the search and face danger from Ralph "Bucky" Phillips and authorities pursuing him, State Police Maj. Michael Manning said. "They can certainly be mistaken for the wrong individual," Manning said. Many officers are scouring the western New York woods for Phillips, the prime suspect in Thursday's ambush of...

FREDONIA - They stood shoulder to shoulder - in the gray uniforms and camouflage fatigues of the State Police - as the American flag was lowered to half staff. One sang "Amazing Grace." With those simple acts, the mourning for Trooper Joseph A. Longobardo began. Shortly after a Sunday evening news conference in which he announced Longobardo's death, State Police Superintendent Wayne E. Bennett asked reporters to cover a brief ceremony conducted outside the Fredonia substation of the State Police. "I think without any words being spoken, that sends a very powerful message to the public about what has gone...

Judge Chuck Weller was told weeks ago that the man now suspected of shooting him had launched a campaign to ruin the judge's career, a spokesman for Weller said Wednesday. Police focused on Northern California as they searched for Darren Mack, a wealthy Reno pawn shop owner wanted in the slaying of his estranged wife and for a sniper attack that wounded Weller, who was handling the couple's contentious divorce. Investigators also said Mack, 45, may be armed with a high-powered semiautomatic rifle, has a student pilot's license and might try to flee the country. "Our understanding is that he...

LAWRENCEVILLE — A fugitive wanted on a host of charges including attempted murder and kidnapping has been arrested after allegedly breaking into a Norcross apartment and falling asleep on the couch. Police said 24-year-old Juan Javier Tapia forced his way into a Harmony Station apartment in Norcross and attempted to fight with a resident. Officers dispatched to the scene discovered Tapia had eaten all the resident’s food and drank all his alcohol before falling asleep on the man’s couch, said Cpl. Darren Moloney, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.

KABUL, Afghanistan - A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Osama bin Laden's training camps to extremist networks in Europe has been captured in Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement official confirms for the first time. Pakistani officials also tell The Associated Press that Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a dual Syrian-Spanish national with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, has been flown out of the country to an unspecified location. Nasar was captured in a November sting in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta that left one person dead, the American official said on condition of anonymity because of...

A man charged with raping an Escondido teenager 10 years ago was among more than 9,000 fugitives arrested last week in a 27-state roundup of people wanted by law enforcement, authorities said yesterday. In addition, 193 San Diego and Imperial County fugitives, including five murder suspects, were also swept up in the local roundup. The effort, dubbed Operation Falcon II, focused on people wanted for sex crimes but also found men and women wanted on homicide, drug and other charges, including 194 in San Diego and Imperial counties. Some failed to appear after being granted bail, others failed to stay...

The Michael Astorga described in court and prison records is fiercely different from the one described by people who have known him for years. A recent neighbor, now so afraid of Astorga's family that he wouldn't give his name, called Astorga courteous and a man of his word. Today, Astorga, 29, is sought by authorities for two killings, including a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy on March 22. Police say he shot Deputy James McGrane Jr., 38, once in the head, rather than be caught on an outstanding warrant for killing a long-time acquaintance in November. << snip >> Friday afternoon,...

War Crimes Fugitive Believed Cornered By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer War crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, accused of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from the Bosnian war, has been located and authorities are negotiating his surrender, a top state security official said Tuesday. Mladic was located but "he has yet not been arrested," the official, who is close to the operation to locate Mladic, told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The state news agency Tanjug reported that Mladic was arrested in Belgrade and being...