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U.S. Marshals / AP
This photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Vincent Legrend Walters. The U.S. Marshals Service says Vincent Legrend Walters, one of its 15 most-wanted fugitives, has been caught in the Mexican resort city of Cancun.
MEXICO CITY -- The U.S. Marshals Service announced the capture of Vincent Legrend Walters, one of the law enforcement agency's 15 most wanted fugitives, in the resort city of Cancun.
Walters, 45, was wanted on kidnapping, murder and drug charges stemming from a 1988 San Diego, Calif., case.
The agency said Walters was apprehended Friday morning, then transported to Mexico City where he will await extradition to the United States.
Walters had been working at the Cancun International Airport under the assumed name Oscar Rivera, according to a statement released by the agency.
Walters is accused in the kidnapping and murder of Christina Reyes in September 1988, U.S. Marshals said in a statement obtained by NBC News. He was also indicted by a federal grand jury in 1989 on conspiracy to manufacture, possess and distribute crystal methamphetamine, carrying firearms during a drug trafficking crime and possession of unregistered firearms and explosives.
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Walters was snared by an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency operation in 1988 after allegedly purchasing $20,000 worth of chemicals to make methamphetamine and negotiating an additional $200,000 deal with the undercover agents, Marshals said.
They described events this way:
When one of his associates became paranoid holding onto the finished methamphetamine, Walters handed it off to a local drug dealer, who in turn gave it to his friend Jay Bareno. Wanting their drugs back, Walters tracked down the local dealer, who no longer had the drugs, and kidnapped him, along with his friend and his friend's girlfriend to trade them to Bareno for the drugs.
Bareno agreed to exchange the drugs for the hostages. After returning the drugs, two of the hostages were released, but Christina Reyes died when she was gagged with a chemically saturated rag that killed her almost instantaneously.
Martin Walters, Vincent's brother, was caught soon after the crime and has since been convicted of Reyes' kidnapping and murder, they said. He is serving 25 years to life in prison.
"Vincent Walters is accused of committing a number of crimes that landed him on our most wanted fugitive list," said David Harlow, Assistant Director of the U.S. Marshals Investigative Operations Division. "Thanks to the hard work of our Deputy U.S. Marshals, local law enforcement and Mexican law enforcement partners, we were able to bring Walters in to face the consequences for his laundry list of accused crimes."
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Leave him down there and bring all our troops home instead. That would be a better deal.
You know that is not how we do it. Come on now, we have lawyers and the judicial system that need to line their coffers. We will bring him back, spend millions on a trial, then spend fifty grand a year for upkeep in prison and give him three hots and a cot. Logic plays no part in America any longer. Didn't you get the memo?
LOL
I agree with both of you..., but J.HOWARD your way is more idealistic !
He worked at an airport...? wow
Let me guess, you aren't a member of the family or a friend of the woman he murdered and no one you know has suffered as a result of the drugs she sold.
So, by y'all's way of thinking, no matter what someone does, if it is going to cost money to capture them, bring them back to stand trial and then to hold them in prison, just let them go!
Don't mind the troops idea, as for walters, dump him in Pakistan, with a "f*ck Allah" tattoo on his forehead
@tiredofphypocrites
???????? who said anything about letting him go ? we didnt ! Do you think the family wants to go and see him in court and rehash it alll over again? maybe they do...maybe they dont!
Leave him in the Mexican prion...he wont last a year !
NEEEEEXT !
He was arrested in 1988? Why was he free to go to Mexico? Kidnap, murder, drug mfg, etc. and some dumb a** judge grants him bail? So he's free for another 24 years? Only in The People's Republic of California, right? And perhaps Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, NY, Mass. and any other commnist states of America.
Stevo, are you nuts? He would never go to prison in Mexico. He would be released into the care of a drug cartel.
To Bandit: Good idea, would save a lot of money.
LOL..we don't want them here..but paying a reward for the jerks to come here...prison or not!
Bandit,
My kind of guy! Whoo hoo
tiredofhypocrites-794827
The American "justice" system is a perverted mess. There is no justice. We create 100 laws to protect the guilty for every one that protects the innocent. True justice if this man actually killed someone is the death penalty. Not one that takes 20 years of appeals but immediate. Bringing him back to "face justice" is an illusion at this point and will only be a media event and politics.
And whether you like to believe it or not, there are financial aspects to everything our government does, and my comment was about how it is disfunctional in how it goes about it.
Bandit, I like your idea the most!
wonder if he was illegal immigrant there?
bandit-3097615
Keep in mind that it has to be written in Arabic or Pashto or Urdu or all three.....LOL
I wonder if he was working with airport security or just another routine "baggage handler" (short for "baggage INTRUDER").
Bandit:
I agree. It would be nice if we took all death row or violent criminals and sentenced them to a mandatory 'military sentencing.' If they die; sentence complete.
Mexico is the resort town for criminals around the world.
Better yet, why not bring him back to hang him on the courthouse lawn. He had 24 yrs if he had been remorse for what he did he could have came back to pay for his crime, since he is not remorse than it should be eye for an eye, life for life..... Those that live by the LAW shall die by the LAW.
And now we export criminals......LOLZ
Well I to like Bandit's idea also. I was going comment that its interesting that Mexico is not resisting his extradition. Yes our justice system is messed up and we will end up paying his way here, his court appointed attorney, jurists, deputies, corrections officers salaries etc. Should I go on. Well he is guilty so take him across the border to our side. Have three people waiting armed with weapons, execute him and send the bill and his head to the Mexican Cartel! Then when the Mexican Government cries foul. Then we put them on notice as to why this person has been working in Cancun International for the time he has without a peep from authorities. Don't tell me that they are that horrible in screening their Airport Employees. This just wreaks of total corruption! How many smugglers did this guy assist through that Airport and its an International one at that?
For those who think I am joking about executing him and sending his head back to the Cartel, well you know in troubled times as these we can't afford to support this guy so lets just cut some costs right now. Why not that's what they said when I was let go when the economy took a dump. LOL
Hey "bandit-3097615," why dump the guy in Pakistan...because police told me today that the United States is worse than Afghanistan as an explanation for their use of extreme measures of precaution during traffic stops here in the United States. If the police say that American traffic stops are more dangerous than Afghanistan traffic stops, then it must be true, or perhaps the police must be paranoid and delusional who we must worry about just as much as worry about fugitives being able to work in high security places, like as if birds of a feather flock together.
Hey what do you know, an American stealing a Mexican's job
LMFAO
@SteveC --- Pay back is a bitch. Let him remain in Mexico and put the word out that he's a DEA snitch. A cartel goon will save US taxpayers a large sum of money and the butt hole will get his just end.
Maybe he'll get shot anyway on the way back to the USA. Mexico isn't a safe place anymore, especially if you're involved with one or more cartels down there and you don't do your job correctly.
this is probably far-fetched for sure, but on another slant.... wouldn't it be wonderful if Mexico would come after their fugitives??? I know of a police officer who would be alive right now if they had!!
Yeah, NCheck. You never hear of laws being enforced down there. It's like everyone's running around doing whatever the hell they want without consequence.
John - you have a problem with due process? It's what the country has always been built on. You must be a super patriot.
At the airport.......what the...... they did not check fingerprints !
wonder what other crimes he has commited in the last 20 years
That's the right wing for ya...
They find this guy working @ the airport? I thought there were no jobs down there in Mexico!(lol)
Actually, I am glad they caught this guy -May justice be doen. But wonder what took so long. Appears he got off the plane down there over 20 years ago and just got a job right a way Imagine having a job @ an international airport could be useful for someone who smuggles drugs.
How much you wanna bet he was still smuggling drugs for somebody - at the airport.
I'd bet good money that he was.
Anyone remember Iran/Contra and Gary Webb's reporting at the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 which he entitled "Dark Alliance"? Maybe Vincent Legrend Walters did got his job working in covert operations for the CIA helping airliners such as Air America to smuggle drugs into Los Angeles. Perhaps this is just a covert way to bring home a deep incognito undercover agent for retirement. The birds are coming home to roost. Ya, don't laugh too hard because anything is possible nowadays with the suspicious way that our government operates and with all the lack of accountability, deregulation, and secrecy. To quote Shakespeare, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Your guess is as good as anyone's.
Let him try to escape and shoot him dead!!!
Funny they didn't mention working for the TSA at the airport! Would not surprise me
"An American Stealing a Mexican job in Mexico!" Throw his ass otta the country, and let him come back legally! Damn it!!
Mike 277~
We have to take him. He's an American you know, one of ours. Besides, I don't think Mexico wants our garbage down there. Especially in Cancun. Nope ain't gonna have it.
911 loosechange - so why does America accept Mexico's garbage! Never will understand it!! AZ is
brave enough to attempt to control their border. I applaud them!! We all should back AZ!
An americn stealing a mexicans job THAT'S FUNNY!
i'll bet he can't vote in mexico without id
WHO WOULD WANT TO ?
Why are all the tin-foil hat types so amazing? Now they want a national ID for everyone (except themselves). But when this was actually proposed, these same tin-foil types were the ones screaming the loudest against it. "Too much government intrusion" they said. But now it is ok?
And this 'most wanted' guy - the article of what he did reads like a 3 stooges routine. If this bozo is one of our most wanted, then the USA must not have much crime... But the criminals arrested every month in AZ by the US Marshall Service seems to be much more dangerous. Something seems out of whack with this story.
Yeah it only took 30 yrs! Our boys are Great! and if you get tired of the quick trials, Zoid-Berg is ready for a Judge Show! I prefer Fox or a local station. NOW I"LL BE THE POPULAR ONE!
Voting is probably the least of his worries.
Cancun is Awesome!! been there a few times. Funny though, most of the people there are either American or Canadian. Had a great time can't wait to go back.
Cabo is absolutely fantastic too. Can't wait to go back there. Luxury abounds and the resort staff. . .fantastic. People KILL me when they talk about Mexico as if it was the size of a postage stamp. Buy a globe, people, and buy a clue while your at it. The general location of the drug cartel violence is far, far away from the resort sites, and even when there have been reports of crimes in or around said resort sites, it's been one or two incidences at the most. I'll take Cabo over Chicago any day of the week.
I have never been to Mexico and will not be going in my lifetime. I thought you would like to know.
Obama apprehended him to obtain one more vote
And Blowbama took full credit for his arrest. He single-handedly masterminded the entire operation and he personally broke into the fugitive's lair and slapped the cuffs on him. Then Jokebama will promise to let him go, give him a job, free medical care, housing, an education and food stamps. All the guy has to do is vote for him. WTG Barry.
Lisa you got issues. What does this story have to do with politics fool? Same as your friend Raider Red, just a bunch of idiots looking to get ones goat. Trolls
@ Russ
Raider and Lisa are not americans. Obviously.
Lisa/Red
Crawl back in your Fox Hole, complete wankers.
Raider~
FYI, Criminals are taken away the privilege of voting. Obama doesn't need his vote, he already has plenty of voters. hehehehehe!!
Don't feed the trolls and they'll eventually starve to death from lack of attention.
Raider Red....too, too funny, I love it!!!
poor Russ and Rocky, a few people that don't think the same way they do, awww too bad!!! Laugh a little, it's good for ya'
A well thought out and informative story.
That boy is CUTE!
So was Charles Manson at one time, marlane!
marlane,
"That boy is CUTE!"
It does look better than your average mug shot. He must be photogenic. Cancun is a famous vacation resort, but it looks like this guy's vacation has just ended. I hope he enjoyed it. It is going to be quite a contrast with where he is headed now. His next "vacation" will be even longer.
I do seriously think he's cute...that's all. BTW from the average woman's point of view, Charles Manson was NEVER attractive. This guy here will totally appeal to Bubba & his homies, no doubt about it.
Bill Hicks sure was right. "If Satan was arrested a lot of women would say, "he's got a cute butt"..."HE'S SATAN!"..."I can change him."
Reminds me of ages ago when Jeffrey Dahmer was on trial and dozens of women showed up to give him letters and wedding proposals. Even though he was a homosexual.
that's what quite a few women said about Ted Bundy, too...
And so it begins. Next thing you know, all men are scum because you decided to date this POS that you knew better than to date in the first place. Or you keep going back to him because "he's changed".
I'll start baking the cake for the pity party...
Revolt-----I couldn't agree more if I tried!
Pretty much we'll still be supporting this guy 20 years from now
That's when his speedy trial appeals will be over . . .
Crime doesn't pay , does it?
Seems in this case, no. Most of the time it's a different story however.
1 2 3 bang! bullet to the brain, dumpster. end of story
Sounds like the ideal plan. My taxes are already squandered, so we don't need another unnecessary trial to pay for.
1988? That's 24 years ago. Leave the man alone. He is rehabilitated. Free Vincent Walters!
LOL How do you know he's a good guy now? No way to know one way or another. Pretty much everyone that truly enjoys living in Mexico is corrupt some way or another.
I really don't know why, Hansome Jaques, but your comment made me laugh so hard I spewed my soda all over the place. Thanks! I NEEDED THAT! :-)
Leave Britney alooooooone!
We will not be able to extradite unless we promise the mexican government he will not face the death penalty for his deeds
...and promise to give them a whole new round of US tax dollars!
So what? Let him rot in prison. It's not fun in prison, or so I've heard. He got a long enough Cancun vacation . . .
He resembles a Chihuahua !!!
Quiero Taco Bell!
He does kind of, doesn't he.
He's got moves like Jagger...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAgTGUNcNc
24 years and lots of $$$ spent to find this guy. How come NOBODY has spent ANY TIME or $$$ tracking down and jailing BIG BANKERS or the WALL STREETERS who STOLE BILLIONS and have caused TRILLIONS of $$$ of DAMAGE to AMERICA and it's CITIZENS ? Isn't Kidnapping of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS and the MURDER OF AMERICA'S ECONOMY of ANY IMPORTANCE to ANY of AMERICA'S LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ?
Joe I agree wichooo.
Joe Cali~
I like your way of thinking, what about the friggin "Banksters" they should throw all their a$$e$ in jail too for robbing the American citizens WTF!! It's all their fault we are where we are at the moment...
Does Mitt qualify as one of those bankers? :)
Joe, the same reason Eric Holder is getting away with fast & furious and the White House is getting away with leaks that endanger the country.
Denis, What your talking about--get away with? F & F started under W--check out the Arizona straw buyers deal--buy as many guns as you want, no questions asked and drive them over the boarder. Get your head out of that Fox Hole.
Turner, You should do some homework on F&F. Bush did have a program that didn't work and was shut down called Wide Reciever. Fast and Furious was a program designed to flood the Mexican cartels with arms from the U.S. to get greater gun control nothing more nothing less with the exception that AMERICAN agents have been killed with the weapons our goverment supplied. Get your head out of ###
Turner none of the guns in the Bush administration were ever lost. Holder let 2,500 guns walk that they lost control of, big difference..
Dumbya Bush had three other programs which also didn't work:
1. Iraq War
2. The US Economy
3. His presidency
So your saying its bush's fault that this dirtbag got caught in cancun?....If this is all bush's fault, he must have really been doing more than you libs think....
leave him the mexican jail,, we are over crowded with criminal mexicans in our jail...and it's costing us at the azz to take care of em.so the least the mexicans can do is keep him,,, for us... and we promise not to make a fuss about what you feed him,, or how you treat him....not to worry we will not sue.
Somehow the paperwork for the extradition just keeps getting lost.
Plus we need more space for the murderers who text while driving...seriously.
Gee, another criminal found working, at all places the airport. Actually smart idea, they can hop on a flight & hide out in next country.
Too smart. It's good they got this one off the streets.
No details on the crime. Typical lame reporting.
Wait. Most wanted list? He's not a Muslim!
54buick - Lazy much? Ever think of copying and pasting the guy's name into Google? One click and you'll know everything there is to know about Vincent Legrend Walters.
54,
Read the whole story, it tells the pertainent details.
Binki,
Nasty person that you are keep your bigot mouth shut!
Wow, yesterday, they reported that a young lesbian couple in Texas were shot in the head...and you complained on the Vine (for that article) that the information about them being lesbians was included in the story.
Make up your goddam mind! Yesterday, you were whining about too much information, today it's too little.
jesus h nipple, what's wrong with you people?
Bernitch...thats the lib way, always blame someone else for whats wrong, never accept responsibility for anything, and god forbid call a spade a spade....
Hansom, would U still think the same if was your brother or sister that lost 24 years of his life
This idiot could not keep his mouth shot. Probably told another thug what he did and this thug turned him in to get some lesser sentence. We have more pressing problems these days that need more attention then this two bit criminal. It appears he rehabilitated himself nicely. Just as with any government, it appears that we cannot stop from stepping on our own tails. They will bring him back and spend millions on trial and and lock up for the next 30 years or so. Now he is a Mexican government's problem and we should leave it at that.
Wish we could. Mexico doesn't handle any matter correctly, from what I've seen. Why do you think the Mexicans are coming over here? Well, except for Walters, the exception that makes the rule.
Jesus Christ - don't they do background checks? Oh, my bad - this is Mexico we're talking about. Yet another reason NOT TO SPEND MY TOURIST DOLLARS THERE. They already steal our jobs and take our benefits. Should've just dumped his ass in a Mexican prison. PROBLEM SOLVED.
Since your from the sticks, LA Bayou country, I am sure you don't have any tourist dollars anyway. No big loss and nobody cares
And by your name Jose your just some spick. How's that logic working for ya now that its turned on you.
William,
Your an ass--bigot, nasty mouth and mind.
Michele,
Is that the red beans rice talking, blowing too much swamp gas. Your just as bad as William. Silly twit.
turner#1 you're just another democratic ass clown.
Michelle~
Don't pat yourself so hard on the back, this country doesn't do a great job at background checks either. What about all those White child molesters? Can't deny that 90% of them are White and re-commit crimes against sweet innocent children. Just stating facts. Feel free to jump off your horse now and walk away quietly. "People who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones" Just saying........
Tijuana's a nice place to go by day, but wouldn't want to be there overnight.
I agree, Michele, I too will NEVER step foot in Mexico, I don't care how beautiful the beaches, cities, landscapes are! I love the United States, current administration excluded!!!!!!!!!!!
Where are you guys getting your information? I see nothing in the report that states he's an American or according to post 1 that we have troops in Mexico. There are no details on his crime but some of you think he should be left their instead of brought back to the United States to face charges and possibly jail time. What am I missing?
Confussed the problem is you're trying to use logic and reason. This is the 'Inter-Web' and facts only get in the way when posting comments.