This article is a few days old, but I found it very interesting that Mexico STILL isn’t cooperating with extradition for us. Weren’t we told by Chertoff that was in the past?
Suspect in deadly hit-and-run hid in Mexico
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_071607_news_powell_arrest.802ff341.html
One year to the day after a jogger was hit and killed by a car in the Columbia Gorge police made an arrest in the case.
Out for a summer jog in Dodson, Kimberly Powell was hit and killed by a passing car July 14, 2006.
Kimberly Powell in a photo from her myspace web page.
Powell, now referred to as Kimberly McDaniel by family, was found barely alive in a blackberry thicket along Frontage Road.
The aspiring drummer was rushed to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where she died one day later.
Her case had dragged on for a year without an arrest until Saturday. On the one-year anniversary of the collision that took Kimberly’s life, detectives arrested 25 year-old Rosendo Rosales-Corona in Lodi, California.
Hands Tied
Detectives had been following Rosales-Corona since February. A confidential informant tipped them off to his location in Michoacan, Mexico. Unable to cross the border to make an arrest, detectives began to work with the Mexican government. For months it proved fruitless. Their hands were tied.
“If I could have driven into Mexico I probably could have driven to the exact location where he was at and me and my partner could have grabbed him and brought him back,” said Detective Jay Pentheny of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives continued their negotiations without success.
Looking for Work
In late June, Detective Pentheny and his partner Detective Jason Servo of the Gresham Police Department got a tip. Rosales-Corona had moved to Lodi, California to look for seasonal farm work. The detectives worked to confirm an exact location.
With information in hand, Servo and Pentheny traveled to Lodi last week. By Friday, their efforts had turned up no sign of Rosales-Corona.
“Everything fell apart Friday night. We went back to the room Friday night and went, ‘Crap. We’re out of leads,’ ” said Detective Jason Servo.
The Arrest
Out of options, the detectives continued knocking on doors and asking questions. Their work led them to a local store. It was now July 14, 2007. It was the anniversary of Kimberly’s collision.
Out of the storefront appeared Rosendo Rosales-Corona. Detectives approached and identified themselves.
“Basically, he looked down and said Portland and shook his head. He knew that he had been caught and his time was up,” says Pentheny.
Pentheny and Servo held Rosales-Corona until officers from the Lodi Police Department could make the official arrest. Rosales-Corona was taken to the Lodi Police Department where he agreed to be interviewed by Pentheny. The Multnomah County Detective says the interview was satisfying and Rosales-Corona indicated he would not fight extradition.
A Family’s Relief
News of Rosales-Corona’ arrest was slow to travel to the family of Kimberly Powell (McDaniel). Janet Tremain, Kimberly’s mother, was camping near Government Camp. After a difficult day marking the one-year anniversary of Kimberly’s collision, Tremain returned to her camper to notice eleven missed calls on her cell phone.
Tremain’s husband, Allen, called detectives and finally received the good news.
“We all cried and talked about it and it was just a great day,” said Allen Tremain.
For months the Tremains knew police were following Rosales-Corona. They knew he could not be extradited back from Mexico. Now one year to the day that Kimberly was hit, a suspect was behind bars.
Janet Tremain says she went home and told Kimberly, “Kimberly we got him. I told you we’d get him. We got him.”