LOS ANGELES—A fugitive needed for his alleged involvement in a homicide and tried homicide in 2009 was arrested and returned to Los Angeles this week, introduced Don Alway, the Assistant Director in Cost of the FBI’s Los Angeles Discipline Workplace.
On December 28, 2009, Steven Aguilar-Medina was allegedly pushed to a rival gang space in Los Angeles by his girlfriend, Evelin Martinez. Martinez then allegedly stopped her van as Aguilar-Medina allegedly exited the automobile and approached two people standing outdoors a house. Aguilar-Medina allegedly then shouted a gang time period, then allegedly fired a number of pictures on the two people, killing one.
Primarily based on an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, Aguilar-Media was recognized as a suspect following the homicide. Aguilar-Medina was charged within the Superior Court docket of California, County of Los Angeles, with homicide and tried homicide. A state warrant was issued for his arrest on January 8, 2010.
Detectives assigned to the case quickly decided that Aguilar-Medina fled the state of California and enlisted the help of the FBI’s Fugitive Activity Power to find and apprehend him. A federal arrest warrant was issued by america District Court docket for the Central District of California, Los Angeles, on March 3, 2010, after Aguilar-Medina was charged federally with illegal flight to keep away from prosecution (UFAP).
In 2019, the FBI’s Fugitive Activity Power, along with the Los Angeles Police Division, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, and regulation enforcement counterparts in Mexico, publicized one dozen fugitives who had allegedly dedicated crimes in Los Angeles after which fled Los Angeles County; many are believed to have fled to Mexico. Aguilar-Medina and Evelin Martinez have been among the many circumstances publicized. That 2019 announcement will be discovered right here: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/losangeles/news/press-releases/fbi-fugitivetask-force-in-los-angeles-and-mexican-law-enforcement-officials-seek-one-dozenfugitives-wanted-for-violent-crimes-in-unrelated-cases-who-are-believed-to-have-fledcalifornia-to-mexico-in-order-to-evade-capture.
The FBI’s Los Angeles Fugitive Activity Power just lately developed info as to Aguilar-Medina’s whereabouts and labored with Mexican regulation enforcement officers and the FBI’s Authorized Attache in Mexico Metropolis to find him. Aguilar-Medina was taken into custody on October 18th within the city of Progreso within the state of Merida, Mexico.
Aguilar-Medina was deported to Houston, Texas, on October nineteenth and detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division traveled to Texas to return him to Los Angeles.
The federal government is anticipated to dismiss the federal warrant charging Aguilar-Medina with illegal flight to keep away from prosecution and Aguilar-Medina will await prosecution by the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
The fugitive investigation, arrest, and deportation of Aguilar-Medina was a coordinated effort amongst a number of regulation enforcement businesses in america and Mexico, to incorporate the FBI’s Fugitive Activity Power in Los Angeles, which is comprised of FBI brokers and officers with the Los Angeles Police Division; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division; the FBI’s Authorized Attache in Mexico Metropolis; and Mexican regulation enforcement and authorities officers.
The return of Aguilar-Medina was sponsored by america authorities’s “Mission Welcome Residence,” which gives funding for the transportation of FBI fugitives to america, the place the repatriation by the host nation happens by way of deportation or extradition.
The FBI continues to work with native regulation enforcement in addition to counterparts in different nations to apprehend violent criminals charged with state crimes who then flee the jurisdiction interstate or internationally. Pictures and descriptions of many fugitives needed by the FBI will be discovered at www.fbi.gov. Reward cash is obtainable in lots of circumstances.
Aguilar Medina’s needed poster with a captured banner will be discovered right here: AGUILAR-MEDINA
Evelin Martinez stays a fugitive and her needed poster will be discovered right here: EVELIN MARTINEZ
