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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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Confussed-1578043 clearly you didn't read the whole article. Towards the end it says" he's wanted for murder, kidnapping and drug charges stemming from a 1988 San Diego, California case."
Good job Mexico!!!! no finger prints for a background check, what idiots
Hang all involved, then we can move on to something else.
What a bunch of losers. The man is guilty of murder and more crimes and took off rather than going to prison. The FBI never forgets you. He was working at the Mexican airport. How do you know he worked in Security? Likely a janitor or anything. Also, he could be Cuban or from another Caribe country. Cubans were big into the drug business in the 1980's.
Don't worry - I am sure Obama will give him dream amnesty... after all he was probably brought to the US as a young child and had to actually kidnap and murder people to make a living. It must have been so hard for him.
Maybe he could be one of Obama's (or Romney's - they are both the same) hispanic outreach advisors.
I am almost certain Walters is not his original name either, I wonder what was his name and crime before this one.
Maybe his mother is an unwed mama, hence the non-Latino surname. Also, why all the racist comments? Nobody has control over what race they are. It makes me ashamed to be white sometimes listening to "you people".
All his aliases sound like Mexican names, and it looks like he ran back across the border. However, as someone has already said, the Mex government will not extradite unless we promise not to execute, so if he is convicted he will serve out a life sentence.
The girl he and his brother killed was just a hostage, wrong place, wrong time.
Nothing surprising here!
Just another criminal employed at an airport!
Just like TSA agents, their uncaring,cruel,heartless cowards that ARE CRIMINALS! & don't you think the government whether it would be the U.S.A. or Mexico don't know who they hire with microscope background checks??? YOU BET YOUR SWEET BIPPY they DO! Another example of total corruption from or finest!
Makes sense too! Soon the North American Union will be formed where Mexico, the U.S. & Canada will become > ONE NATION! Why do you think their constructing that straight highway down the center of the United States! & Fema camps are in construction all around the U.S.A. as we speak!
Be prepared to be taken prisioner at > GUNPOINT! or die on the spot! when the word from the Govt. is given!
It's comming!!! Better believe it!
The age listed as 45 has to be wrong. His current age must be way older than that, judging from his wanted photo! BAD REPORTING AND GETTING FACTS BACKWARDS IS A SIGN OF THE AMERICAN DESCENT INTO THE ABYSS!! Sorry state of affairs when even the basics are wrong in a News Article. Must have been written by a FAUX News associate???!!!
So, meds time. Isn't it?
So the brother is almost eligible to be released from prison and now he gets his chance to serve. Such good boys.
Great replys.The feds was probally tipped of by the guy himself.Knowing he wanted,it a free ticket to america,plus free room and board.A perfect retirement plan.HE know america wont excute him,because of his goverments stance on the death penalty.Everybody say let the mexicain goverment have him,Wake up, It happened in america,not mexico,so he looking at what maybe the use of a false name,or a few other minor charges.
the first few people on must not be able to read. they want to leave him there and bring our troops home. people he was caught in Mexico hellooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! they should just have shot him on site and left his body to rot.
So much for airport security. Classify him as a snitch and the drug cartel will save the taxpayers in the US a lot of money.
even the single most wanted criminal in America is a mexsickan
CZARBobb~
Yea but even though I am American, a lot more people around the world hate us more then they do the Mexicans. Could it be because they are awesome and God loving people who always mind their own business and don't start any un-necessary wars? Yes it is. I wouldn't be bragging to much right now.
It took our geniuses 24 years to find him and he was working at the International Airport in Cancun? Who is background checking these people before hiring anyway? And what system, or lack of one, makes that information so hard to match up?
This case has a simple solution to it. Get this POS and shoot him so the tax payers don't get stuck paying his legal fees. Oh, and just for the record I am of Hispanic decent and I would be glad to be rid of the scumbag!!
We all would, but like everyone, politicians and movie stars excluded usually, he has to face the music. I say we extradite him and run him through our legal system. It's not perfect, but it's the best we can do, and last time I checked the Mexican legal system is pretty much nonexistent.
Even Obama's war on drugs is better!
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Kemetstry~
I think you mean Reagan's war on drugs. He was the one who started it (a lot of good that's done) Obama's baby is Health care reform. Keep your projects straight.
LEGALIZE DRUGS AND ALLOW THE DRUG ADDICTS TO DIE.. AFTER ALL, ISN'T THAT WHAT THEY WANT. GO FOR IT!!
If they legalize drugs they can let this scumbag go, right?
Legalize Crystal Meth now and keep these upstanding citizens out of jail. It just isn't fair! Come on CA, lead the way
1st crime 1998, move to the year 2012. it took that long to find this pos. great job us marshals
man I cant believe all of you
I for one am glad some one this violent is off the street
Couldn't they just shoot the SOB? We don't need to spend any more money on this person.
Long arm of the Law strikes again. He fought the Law and the Law won.. Even though it took a while, As many Americans that go through Cancun, you have to wonder why no one saw him in the airport sooner!
A lot of people wouldn't look for this murderer if they didn't know that he was close at hand. No one says, "Today I'm going to look for a murderer on my vacation just because."
So the sucker worked at an airport. And he dealt in drugs and gun running. Can you say...."I can get anything past customs or airport security."
The man is obviously a member of the cartels, and has been helping them ship crap from mexico to the U.S. And if the law can't see that, then they are stupid.
Wow. Shocking that he worked at an airport under a different name. They no do complete background checks?
Wow and he worked at an airport. Good thing they do such a great job on background checks and making sure he was not using a fake name. Airport employees should have to get fingerprinted.