ICE DEPORTS 3 FUGITIVES WANTED FOR MURDER IN MEXICO

Sinaloa and Los Zetas Cartel hit-men deported from Texas

By Chivis Martinez

Borderland Beat
April 28, 2020

Officers with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Detention and Deportation (ERO) in Houston, Texas, removed three fugitives Wednesday. wanted for murder in Mexico.

Alfredo Medina Martínez, 29; Guillermo Vázquez Sáenz, 51 and Eduardo Antonio Pérez Don Juan, 53 - all citizens of Mexico - were escorted to the port of entry in Laredo, Texas, where they were presented to the Mexican public order authorities.

Medina Martínez is being sought by Mexican authorities for murder. Vázquez Sáenz and Pérez Don Juan are being sought for aggravated murder.

Medina Martínez has been extradited from the United States to Mexico on three previous occasions: On January 5, 2019, February 27, 2019, and May 10, 2019. He was ordered to be removed by an immigration judge on June 30, December 2018. Medina Martinez was convicted of illegal entry on January 2, 2019 and for illegal re-entry on February 26, 2019 and October 15, 2019.

He is a documented member of the Mexicles, a Mexican street gang allied with the Sinaloa Cartel.
Vázquez Sáenz, a documented member of the Los Zetas drug cartel, was administratively extradited from the United States to Mexico on May 14, 2013.

On January 22, 2018, he was found by immigration officials after illegally re-entering the United States. An immigration judge ordered that he be removed from the United States to Mexico on August 24, 2018.

He was convicted of escaping custody on July 15, 2002 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and for driving while He was intoxicated in Colin County, Texas on June 2, 2006.

Pérez Don Juan has previously been removed from the United States to Mexico on four occasions: On April 17, 1999, October 25, 2002, March 25, 2004, and December 10, 2009. He has multiple criminal convictions in United States, including a conviction for attempted burglary for theft in Dekalb County, Georgia of June 26, 1998, for illegal re-entry on March 24, 2003, for driving while intoxicated in Galveston, Texas on November 30, 2009 and for illegal re-entry on March 27, 2020.

"These individuals fled Mexico to escape prosecution for their alleged crimes and have continued to engage in criminal activity here in the United States," said Paul McBride, acting director of the ERO Houston field office. "By working alongside our foreign law enforcement partners We have returned them safely to their home country, where they will face trial for their alleged crimes, and we have made our community safer."

ICE is focused on removing threats to citizen security, such as convicted foreign criminals and gang members, as well as individuals who have violated our nation's immigration laws, including those who have illegally re-entered the country after being removed and immigration fugitives. Which federal immigration judges have ordered to be removed. In fiscal year 2019, ERO Houston removed more than 12,620 undocumented aliens with criminal convictions and another 1,699 with pending criminal charges.

Members of the public with information on foreign fugitives are urged to contact ICE by calling the ICE Toll Line at 1 (866) 347-2423 or internationally at 001-1802-872-6199. They can also submit online tracks by completing the ICE online form.