FBI to pay up to $150,000 after most-wanted fugitive’s arrest in Mexico

September 24th, 2009 Iraqi city locked down after prison breakBAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say about 15 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit and authorities have locked down the city as they search for fugitives. Iraqi military spokesman Maj.

September 13th, 2009 PR man sought in killing of union leader arrestedSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — One of Puerto Rico's 10 most-wanted fugitives will be tried for allegedly killing the leader of a powerful sewer workers' union following his capture in New Jersey. FBI spokesman Harry Rodriguez says Jose Juan Viera Morales is scheduled to appear Monday in a New Jersey federal court and will later be flown to Puerto Rico.

August 29th, 2009 Fla. police lure fugitives with stimulus checksMIAMI — Police in Florida are using the promise of a stimulus check to make some arrests. Authorities in Fort Lauderdale say they sent letters to fugitives offering them stimulus money.

August 22nd, 2009 Mexico frets about California plan to free inmatesMEXICALI, Mexico — Mexican authorities have been sending more alleged criminals north to the U.S. for trial since President Felipe Calderon took office.

August 6th, 2009 Spanish police arrest alleged ETA memberMADRID — A suspected member of the armed Basque group ETA was deported from Mexico on Thursday and arrested in Spain, where he is wanted for allegedly killing five Spanish police officers and a pregnant wife of one of the officers. A police statement said Juan Manuel Inciarte Gallardo, 55, was taken into custody at Madrid airport when he arrived on a flight from Mexico City, where he had been living illegally.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Interpol has issued 147 red corner notices in the past three years on the requests of Indian authorities, who are looking the fugitives abroad for various crimes they have committed back home. Mullappally Ramachandran, minister of state for home, informed the Lok Sabha that red corner notices have been issued on the request of various investigating agencies forwarded through the Interpol wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in respect of 147 offenders and circulated through Interpol Secretariat General (IPSG) during the last three years.

July 19th, 2009 SoCal deputies' shooting suspect caught in MexicoLOS ANGELES — Authorities say a fugitive from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list suspected of spraying automatic weapons fire at two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies nearly nine years ago is in custody in Mexico. FBI and sheriff's officials said in a news release Saturday that reputed gang member Emigdio Preciado Jr.

July 10th, 2009 Nationwide roundup nets more than 35,000 fugitivesCHICAGO — Police searching for fugitive sex offenders, violent criminals and gang members made more than 35,000 arrests nationwide during an annual monthlong crackdown — the most in the roundup's 5-year history and nearly double the number from last year — authorities announced Thursday. The U.S. Marshals Service said the latest "Operation Falcon" captured 433 murder suspects and 900 gang members.

July 9th, 2009 National roundup nets more than 35,000 fugitivesCHICAGO — Police searching for fugitive sex offenders, violent criminals and gang members made more than 35,000 arrests nationwide during an annual monthlong crackdown — the most in the roundup's 5-year history and nearly double the number from last year — authorities announced Thursday. The U.S. Marshals Service said the latest "Operation Falcon" captured 433 murder suspects and 900 gang members.

June 21st, 2009 Top Italian Mafia fugitive arrested in CaracasROME — Authorities arrested one of Italy's most dangerous Mafia fugitives as he left his apartment in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Italian police said Sunday. Salvatore Miceli, suspected of being a key intermediary in the drug trafficking trade, had been under surveillance by Italian and Venezuelan police for three days before he was nabbed late Saturday, Carabinieri from the Sicilian city of Trapani said in a statement.

June 20th, 2009 Italian police arrest 14 in child porn crackdownROME — Italian police said Saturday they had arrested 14 people and seized some 150,000 computer files in a major crackdown on online child pornography. Police in Catania, Sicily, also placed 250 people under investigation across the country, describing the crackdown as the biggest such operation in Italy.

June 19th, 2009 ICE: Drug fugitive dubbed Ghost arrested in OhioCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal immigration officials say they've arrested a Mexican fugitive who is nicknamed the Ghost and is accused of trafficking high-potency heroin throughout the Midwest. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls says Jose "Carlos" Hernandez Salazar was taken into custody Tuesday in central Ohio.

June 16th, 2009 Gunmen kill priest, 2 seminarians in MexicoACAPULCO, Mexico — Gunmen ordered a priest and two seminarians out of their vehicle and shot them dead in a drug-plagued region of western Mexico, authorities said Monday. The three were killed as they drove through the town of Arcelia in Guerrero state to nearby Ciudad Altamirano to organize a spiritual retreat, said the Archbishop of Acapulco, Felipe Aguirre Franco.

June 8th, 2009 Mexico captures drug cartel suspect wanted in USMEXICO CITY — Mexican police have captured a woman wanted in the United States for allegedly smuggling $2 million in cocaine-trafficking profits for a powerful drug cartel. The Attorney General's Office says Olga Lerma was arrested in western Jalisco state after police spent three months tracking her movements.

April 30th, 2009 Mexico nabs drug gang leader on most-wanted listMEXICO CITY — Mexican police have arrested suspected Zeta gang leader Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, one of Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug traffickers. Federal police say Sauceda Gamboa was detained in the border city of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas.