Suspect in Annandale homicide arrested in New Mexico
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| Police investigate a homicide at Fairmont Gardens. |
Updated, Aug. 9: Abel Alexander Castro Juarez, the suspect wanted by Fairfax County Police for a homicide at the Fairmont Gardens apartments in Annandale July 24, was arrested in New Mexico Friday night, the Associated Press reports.
Castro Juarez, age 20, is a suspect in the shooting death of Jose Alexander Villa Lobo Guevara, 20, of Annandale.
According to the AP, Border Patrol agents working at the Interstate 25 checkpoint north of Las Cruces performing an immigration inspection on a commercial bus traveling north located a man attempting to hide in the restroom.
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Agents discovered the man had an active homicide warrant issued July 24 by the Fairfax County Police Department and turned him over to the New Mexico State Police.
Detectives from the FCPD Major Crimes Bureau flew to New Mexico and returned Castro Juarez to Fairfax County on Aug. 6, where the outstanding warrants were served. Castro Juarez was taken to the Adult Detention Center where he is currently being held without bond.
You can run….
Here’s a case where federal law enforcement, the Border Patrol, doing their job, incredibly finds a suspect who has long left Fairfax County, directly benefiting the county. The Washington Times even noted ironically, Fairfax County earlier this year announced it was curtailing its own cooperation with federal immigration authorities, saying it feared angering its immigrant community by working with the federal government.
Time to throw him over the wall and make sure he never comes back.
Beautiful police work.
Big thank you for everybody on this task force.
Your efforts does not go unnoticed.
Police are amazing. Good work!