Press Release - Tucson Sector PIO
Posted by AP October 21, 2005
Agents catch murder suspect
October 21, 2005
Nogales, AZ -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agents apprehended a 50 year-old illegal alien who had an outstanding felony warrant for murder in California.
Yesterday, at approximately 7:30 a.m., Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Nogales Station encountered Enrique Orosco-Lopez after he cut a hole the International Boundary fence just east of Nogales, Arizona, and illegally entered the United States from Mexico. Orosco was arrested and transported to the Nogales Border Patrol Station. At the station, his fingerprints were enrolled into the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which revealed that he had an active felony warrant for murder from the Santa Ana, California Sheriff's Office. Law enforcement personnel in California were contacted and extradition was confirmed.
Orosco is currently being held in federal custody pending extradition to the State of California. Proceedings to formally remove Orosco from the United States have been initiated, and he will subsequently be removed from the United States when he is finished with his state charges. IAFIS is a biometric identification technology enabling Border Patrol agents to search CBP's Automated Biometric identification System (IDENT) and the FBI's criminal fingerprint database simultaneously. This allows Border Patrol agents to rapidly identify individuals with outstanding warrants and criminal histories by electronically comparing a live-scanned 10-fingerprint entry against a comprehensive national database of previously captured fingerprints.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agents have arrested 33,473 illegal aliens who had criminal records in the United States during fiscal year 2005 (October 01, 2004 to September 30, 2005). Of those, 94 were for homicide or murder.
