News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Arellano cohort is a suspect in slaying of editor

By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Photo by Howard Lipin / Union-Tribune
August 29, 2006

Manuel Arturo Villarreal Heredia, who was captured on a boat with suspected drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, is a U.S. citizen whom Mexican authorities have linked to the 2004 killing of a Tijuana journalist, U.S. prosecutors said.

“He has been identified as a high-ranking member of the cartel . . . who would have in-depth knowledge,” prosecutor Laura Duffy said during a court hearing yesterday in which his status as a material witness was discussed.

Judge Larry Burns ruled yesterday that the government could continue to hold Villarreal and three men who appeared in court with him: Juan Pedro Ramiro-Fiol, Edgar Omar Osorio and Jose Ivon Leon Villarreal, formerly identified as Jose Luis Betancourt, who is related to Manuel Arturo Villarreal.

posted by missionaryman | 7:15 AM

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