A murderer convicted of Los Angeles County who escaped from custody in California and then fled to Mexico, where he allegedly shot and killed a police officer who tried to approve him, was arrested in Tijuana this week, authorities.
The Office of the Attorney General of Baja California announced that César Hernández, 35, was captured on Thursday in a special operation called “Gacela”, which means Gazella. He was sought in Mexico in relation to the death of April 9 of the Commander of the Mexican Police Abigail Esparza Reyes, who took place to judge him in Tijuana.
César Hernández escaped custody in December when he was transported to Delano for an appearance in court.
(Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of California)
Reyes was a member of a specialized research unit known as “Gringo Hunters”, what must be arrested fugitives who have fled to Mexico from the United States, according to Reuters reports. The authorities told him at the cable service that Reyes had led the regional unit of the unit for eight years and carried out more than 400 operations.
“Abigail’s life will be honored, and his death will not be unpunished,” said the governor of California de Baja, Marina del Pilar, said in Spanish in Spanish in a Declaration in social networks Earlier this month.
In 2019, Hernández was sentenced to 80 years to life imprisonment for killing a man outside or a bar in southeastern Los Angeles, a crime of second attack, agreed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of California.
Hernández escaped custody in December while transported to an appearance in the Superior Core Count Court in Delano, according to CDCR. After arriving at the court, he jumped from the truck, evaded the staff and fled the area on foot.
Despite the significant effort to apply the law to capture it, it arrived in Mexico.
Hernández “had been fleeing from justice both in Mexico and in the United States, making it a priority for the police,” said the Office of the Attorney General of California in a Spanish statement.
“In Baja California, if it violates the law, there are consequences,” the statement concluded.
The authorities have not yet announced if Hernández will be prosecuted in Mexico or California.
According to the CDCR, 99% of criminals who have left an institution or community program without permission since 1977 have been arrested.
