News Americas, RALEIGH, N.C., Fri. Mar. 22, 2013: A Mexican man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend in Mexico City in June 2010 was deported Monday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department.
US ICE turned Salvador Vera-Olmeda, 34, over to the Procuradoria General de Justicia de Distrito Federal, (PGJ-DF), for prosecution there. Team officers arrested Vera on Feb. 8. At the time of arrest, Vera was living under an assumed name and had a valid Mexican passport in that name.
Vera-Olmeda had illegally re-entered the United States after being charged in the June 2010 shooting death of 23-year-old Catherine Hernandez Ojeda.
“Fugitives from justice will find no welcome in the United States; we will find them wherever they choose to hide,” said Felicia Skinner, field office director of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, ERO, Atlanta. “The teamwork by HSI (ICE Homeland Security Investigations) and ERO offices and Mexican law enforcement personnel demonstrates a commitment to uphold public safety.” Skinner oversees ERO activities in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Since Oct. 1, 2009, ERO has removed more than 566 foreign fugitives from the United States who were being sought in their native countries for serious crimes, including kidnapping, rape and murder. ERO works with ICE’s Office of International Affairs, foreign consular offices in the United States, and Interpol to identify foreign fugitives illegally present in the United States.
