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.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Man who recanted story arrested

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 02/21/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

Four days after a Juárez man testified that he had been pressured by Juárez police into inventing gruesome scenarios of murders of women, police arrested him and charged him with murder.

Officials at the Chihuahua state attorney general's office denied that Monday's arrest of Alejandro Delgado Valles, 30, was in retaliation for his change of heart. Delgado had been the prosecution's main witness against Edgar Alvarez Cruz, a Denver immigrant suspected of killing more than 10 women in Juárez.

On Feb. 15, Delgado said he was pressured and guided by police when he implicated his friend Alvarez Cruz but that it was "all a lie."

Attorney general spokesman Rene Medrano said Monday's arrest was "in no way connected" with Delgado's recanting.

"The prosecutors continue their investigation, and new evidence surfaces," he said.

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