A fugitive wanted for killings in San Jose and Orange County has been extradited from Laos after a decade on the run, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Myung Jin Kim, 31, was taken into custody by the San Jose Police Department on Wednesday to face murder charges in a June 27, 2016, ambush killing of a man who was not the intended target, according to a joint news release by local and federal law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n
Kim, a South Korean national, also faces charges in the September 2018 killing of a friend he shot six times after an argument over money in a parking lot in Westminster, according to the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
In the San Jose case, authorities said Kim orchestrated the ambush killing<\/a> of a man in a residential neighborhood on the 1700 block of Cape Aston Court. Kim had targeted a victim in the murder-for-hire plot, but the\u00a0hitmen killed an innocent bystander who was driving a similar car, police said.<\/p>\n Laotian authorities took Kim into custody in late May for immigration violations, and he was booked by the Anaheim Police Department before being transported to Santa Clara County this week. His extradition marks the first time a fugitive has been returned to the U.S. from Laos.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Kim\u2019s cowardly acts of violence finally caught up with him, despite being halfway across the globe,\u201d Patrick Grandy, the assistant director in charge of the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles field office, said in a statement.<\/p>\n Kim is expected to be prosecuted in Santa Clara County for the 2016 killing before being returned to Orange County for prosecution in the 2018 case.<\/p>\n San Jose police ask anyone with information about the 2016 killing to contact Detective Sgt. John Van Den Broeck or Detective Amanda Estantino at\u00a0 3829@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>, 4339@sanjoseca.gov<\/a> or 408-277-5283.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter how much time passes or how far someone runs, accountability can still find them,\u201d San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph said in a statement. \u201cOur homicide detectives never gave up on this case, and their persistence, combined with extraordinary support from our law enforcement partners, brought this suspect back to San Jose to face justice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fugitive wanted for killings in San Jose and Orange County has been extradited from Laos after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,723,88,90,89,200,2013],"class_list":["post-359555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-south-bay","tag-us-and-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}