The Trump administration worked with the Mexican government to arrest another person on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list, U.S. officials told CBS News on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The FBI plans to extradite Alejandro Rosales Castillo, 27, who was wanted in the killing nine years ago of a woman he worked with at a North Carolina restaurant, Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le.<\/p>\n
The news comes as President Trump has threatened action against Mexican drug cartels by U.S. forces. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, spoke with Mr. Trump on Monday. A United States military raid<\/a> on Venezuela that deposed then-president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> earlier this month fueled speculation Mr. Trump could soon turn American forces on other nations, particularly Mexico and Cuba.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2016, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Le, 23, was Castillo’s former girlfriend. Authorities found her vehicle at a bus station in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 15, 2016, and found her body on August 17, 2016, in a wooded area in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, with a gunshot wound to her head, The Charlotte Observer reported at the time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Surveillance Video of Top Ten Fugitive Alejandro Castillo<\/a> by The case was featured in a true crime show, “In Pursuit with John Walsh,” in 2020. Castillo, who officials said is a U.S. citizen, was added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list in 2017.<\/p>\n Castillo was arrested in Mexico on Friday and will be extradited to North Carolina, officials told CBS News.<\/p>\n Another person involved in the case, Ahmia Feaster, fled to Mexico and turned himself into authorities in Aguas Calientes, Mexico on October 2017, CBS affiliate WBTV reported at the time.<\/p>\n Authorities have brought in five people on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list in the last year. FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement on Saturday that this tally was “no accident.”<\/p>\n “When you have an administration who gives law enforcement the support to execute a mission, they get the job done like nobody else,” he said. “This is outstanding work from our Charlotte team, FBI Legat Mexico, local and federal partners, and partners in Mexico – and we can now begin the process of delivering long-awaited justice for Sandy Ly Le’s family.”<\/p>\n In March, Mexico handed over Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, allegedly a key senior leader of MS-13 who has been directing gang activity in the United States, Mexico, and El Salvador, after his arrest in Veracruz, officials said.<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n \n Go deeper with The Free Press\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration worked with the Mexican government to arrest another person on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,26,3,2256,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-413554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mexico","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-carolina","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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