Suspect arrested in BP agents' death, Mexican newspaper reports

FROM STAFF REPORTS

January 23, 2008 - 4:59PM

A Mexicali, Baja Calif., man has been arrested in southern Sonora in connection with the death of a Yuma Border Patrol agent during an aborted smuggling attempt, a Mexican newspaper reported.

Jesus Navarro Montes, 22, was arrested in the Obregon, Son., La Cronica reported Wednesday on its Web site.

The story said he was the suspected driver of the Hummer that struck and killed Senior Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar Saturday in the Imperial Sand Dunes.

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Mexican authorities arrest man in border agent's death

Associated Press
Jan. 24, 2008 05:43 AM

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities said Wednesday they have arrested a man for the weekend killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was run over by a suspected smuggler's vehicle.

Agent Luis Aguilar, 32, was placing spike strips in the path of two vehicles believed to have illegally entered the United States from Mexico when one of the vehicles struck and killed him on Saturday, according to Border Patrol authorities in Arizona.

Mexican federal and state police arrested Jesus Navarro Montes on Tuesday in the northern state of Sonora for the killing, according to a joint statement distributed Wednesday by Mexico's federal Attorney General's office and Public Safety Department.

Authorities believe Navarro left Mexicali in Baja California and was headed for the U.S. in a Hummer carrying drugs on Saturday, the statement said.

After the killing, Navarro, 22, drove to Mexicali and gave the Hummer to accomplices for safekeeping, according to an Attorney General's office spokesman who could not be named according to departmental rules.

The official said Navarro acknowledged hitting the agent and has been taken to Mexicali.

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Confeso el homicida de agente de la "migra"

MEXICALI, Baja California(PH)

El traficante de drogas que atropelló y mató a un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos el sábado pasado en la zona desértica al Oeste de Calexico, fue capturado por autoridades mexicanas.

Jesús Albino Navarro Montes, presunto responsable confeso del homicidio, fue detenido en Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, y trasladado a Mexicali, para ser interrogado en la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR).

El inculpado forma parte de una banda de traficantes de droga y de personas encabezada por Gerardo Miramontes Zavala (a) "El Gera" o Federico Zavala Miramontes, informó el delegado de la PGR, Alfredo Becerril Almazán.

Ante las autoridades federales, Navarro Montes confesó que conducía la camioneta Hummer que atropelló al agente Luis Aguilar en el área de dunas.