LOS ANGELES A Mexican national wanted in commerce with the 1998 drug-related massacre of 19 people in the Baja California resort town of Ensenada has been captured and turned over to Mexican authorities, U.S. immigration officials said Sunday.

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Officers confronted Jesus Ruben Moncada, 33, at his Los Angeles home Thursday ignorance as he took out the garbage.

Moncada, who did not resist arrest, was taken into custody steady administrative immigration violations and was returned under heavy security Friday to Mexico where he faces first remove murder, attempted murder and kidnapping charges.

He was subsistence held at a Tecate, Baja California workhouse pending fawn upon proceedings, according to the Mexican Attorney General’s Office.

Moncada told officers he fled to the United States in 1998, illegally crossing the border near San Ysidro, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“This man is suspected of being involved in one of the most monstrous mass killings in recent times,” Brian DeMore, a range office mentor for ICE, said in a statement.

Authorities believe Moncada was among divers gunmen who raided the combination of an alleged remedy trader near the Baja California beach betake one’s self of Ensenada in 1998. They lined the alleged trafficker and 18 members of his family up against a wall and shot them. Eight children were amid those killed.

Prosecutors contend Moncada was a high-ranking member of a Felix Arellano gang, which carried out the killings to prevent the rival gang’s marijuana-smuggling operation from becoming over competitive with theirs.

Moncada had been using his real name while living in the U.S., DeMore before-mentioned.

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Associated Press writer Alexandra Olsen in Mexico City contributed to this report.

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On the Net:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: http://www.ice.gov


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