A multi-agency group spent greater than 30 years looking for Mario R Garcia, 50, earlier than creating a lead within the case earlier this yr indicating he was in Iztapa, Guatemala, a coastal city about 112km from Guatemala City.
After months of investigation, a fear group coordinated by a number of home and worldwide regulation enforcement businesses deployed to a prawn farm that Garcia had been working beneath an alias, Massachusetts police mentioned on Wednesday.
“Garcia attempted to evade capture by jumping into a body of water at the shrimp farm but was apprehended and placed into custody,” the discharge states.
“The fact that we were able to reach into Guatemala to hold accountable someone who committed a homicide in Massachusetts is a result of both tenacious police work and the value of our relationships with local, federal and international partners,” Massachusetts State Police Colonel Christopher S. Mason mentioned.
Garcia had been on the run since he was 19 years previous, accused of stabbing Ismael Recinos-Garcia to loss of life throughout a struggle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, in November 1991, in line with the discharge. He disappeared after an arrest warrant was issued.
Massachusetts police mentioned one in all their models realized in 2014 Garcia had “likely fled to a remote area of his native Guatemala”.
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“We are glad that the victim, Ismael Recinos-Garcia, will finally have justice be brought forth for this senseless murder,” Attleboro Police Chief Kyle P. Heagney mentioned.
District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn confirmed Garcia shall be extradited from Guatemala and prosecuted for Recinos-Garcia’s homicide in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
It is unknown whether or not Garcia has acquired an lawyer.
