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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.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Murder suspect extradited to U.S. from Mexico

By Darren Meritz / El Paso Times
El Paso Times
Article Launched:01/27/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

A suspected California gang member wanted for the past seven years for his alleged role in a murder-for-hire plot has been extradited from Mexico and was turned over to El Paso police Thursday.

Rafael Guillen, 31, is accused of participating in a scheme to kill Mercedes Caballero, who was found stabbed to death and bound with duct tape on the floor of her Lower Valley home in January 2000.

According to a 2002 indictment, Ana Pineda-Montti agreed with Primavera Baltazar -- who has since been sentenced to life in prison for the crime -- to employ Guillen to commit the slaying. Pineda-Montti believed her lover was having an affair with Caballero, Esparza said.

U.S. drug investigators have linked Pineda-Montti, a native of El Salvador, to the Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel. El Paso police spokesman Javier Sambrano said Pineda-Montti previously was apprehended by Mexican authorities in connection with the slaying but was released because officials could not extradite her to the United States.

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