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Friday, March 30, 2007

Snafu leads to murder suspect's release

Jim Walsh and Amanda Fruzynski
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 30, 2007 12:00 AM

The legal system is on trial and different participants are blaming each other, refusing to accept responsibility in the wake of an undocumented immigrant's mistaken release from a Maricopa County jail, 11 days before police say he may have committed murder.

Ruben Perez Rivera, 23, is suspected of stabbing his cousin to death Tuesday in Mesa. He was released from a jail March 16 because of a paperwork snafu. The county Sheriff's Office acted on a judge's March 15 order to release Perez Rivera and was not notified in time that he had been indicted later that day on kidnapping charges.

He was deported by federal officials to Mexico after his release from jail, but he apparently re-entered the United States illegally.

Perez Rivera is still missing and wanted in connection with the murder of Theodore Cruz Perez, 23, at an apartment complex.

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