EL PASO, Texas — A man accused of having a role in the killings of at least eight women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has not been charged with a crime in that country and will remain in the United States until he is deported or an arrest warrant is issued, a U.S. immigration official said Tuesday.
Edgar Alvarez Cruz, a Mexican construction worker, was arrested in Denver last week on an unrelated immigration charge and brought to El Paso in anticipation of being turned over to Mexican authorities.
But until an arrest warrant is issued or an immigration judge orders Cruz to leave the country he will remain in U.S. custody, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.
Cruz is scheduled to appear at a deportation hearing next month.
Mexican prosecutors in the state of Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, said Tuesday that the investigation is ongoing and Cruz and a Mexican man detained in Virginia remain suspects in the unsolved string of killings. Prosecutors declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation.
Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz, the man arrested in Virginia, has not been brought to the El Paso jail and Zamarripa said she did not know where he was being held or by whom.
Tony Garza, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has called Cruz’s arrest "a major break" in the killings of more than 100 young woman in Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, between 1993 and 2001.
2006-08-28
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