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“Thanks to quick action by Mexican officials, a dangerous fugitive is no longer on the streets of Veracruz and will soon face justice in the United States,” U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said today.
The Federal Investigative Police arrested Michael Alfonso in Veracruz; the Mexican Immigration officials ordered him to be expelled, and he was placed on a plane to the United States this morning, accompanied by two FBI agents.
Michael Alfonso, 35, a native of Wheaton, Illinois, has been one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives since January 2003. He is charged with stalking and killing two women –Sumanear Yang in September 1992 and Genoveva Velasquez in June 2001. .
After the FBI featured Alfonso on the television program “America’s Most Wanted,” a viewer provided information that he was in Mexico. Mexican law enforcement officials acted promptly, enabling Alonso to be arrested in Veracruz. Because he had entered Mexico fraudulently, Immigration officials authorized his deportation.
Ambassador Garza praised the arrest, saying “This success is another example of how close cooperation on law enforcement between the United States and Mexico yields results that make both of countries safer.”
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