Posted on 06/13/2006 4:22:56 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Man arrested, wanted in connection with 1989 shooting death
WESLACO - A man who police say spent 17 years on the run as a murder suspect was captured Monday morning.
Alfonso A. Villarreal, 62, was arrested at a family member's home after the FBI's Rio Grande Valley Violent Crimes Task Force - which focuses its efforts on arresting fugitives and investigating crimes such as kidnappings and robberies - tracked him to a house on North Mile 9 Road in Weslaco, said local FBI spokesman Supervisory Special Agent Jorge Cisneros.
Villarreal was wanted in connection with the August 1989 shooting death of Gilberto Maldonado, 47, in Paw Paw, Mich. Authorities say the two men, both migrant workers picking cucumbers at the time, may have argued over wages.
Villarreal had originally been tracked from Paw Paw to Florida, then Mexico, from where he is believed to hail, said Detective Lt. Bryan Stump of the Van Buren County Sheriff's Department in southwestern Michigan, about 150 miles from Chicago.
Cisneros said the FBI is still in the process of determining Villarreal's citizenship status.
The FBI became involved in the case after a governmental agency called the Van Buren County Sheriff's Department with a tip indicating that Villarreal was in the area near McAllen. Stump did not say which agency called, but Cisneros mentioned the Social Security Administration is part of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force.
Stump said his department then asked the FBI office in McAllen for assistance. Weslaco police assisted agents with the arrest.
Villarreal will appear before a federal magistrate judge in McAllen, and so long as he does not fight extradition, will be taken immediately to Michigan to stand trial, Cisneros said.
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What is Michigan's procedure on the death penalty? Do they have the death penalty or is life without parole the max? Do you know?
No death penalty in Michigan.
But Kinross in the UP is good. Cold. Cruel. Isolated.
No TV, no books, no gym, no nada.
23 hours a day to reflect on what you did...
No Phones, no visits, no speaking to other offenders.
23 hours a day to reflect on what you did...
I've got a cousin in prison with a natural life sentence up here.
After 17 years they don't know his immigration status but we're expected to believe the government will know who's been here 5 years or less.
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