INDIANAPOLIS -- A Mexican national who was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice for a 1999 murder was arrested outside of his work in Indianapolis, and was turned over to Mexican authorities Friday afternoon.
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents believe 34-year-old Agustin Espinoza-Betancourt illegally entered the U.S. in April 1999, shortly after, they say, he got into an altercation with his neighbors in which he shot a mother and her son – killing the boy.
Espinoza-Betancourt may have been in the Indianapolis area since at least May 2003, when ICE agents first encountered him and placed him into removal proceedings. A federal judge sentenced him to deportation in absentia.
On June 21, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agents arrested Espinoza-Betancourt outside of his place of employment in Indianapolis. He was placed on an ICE charter flight Friday and handed over to the custody of Mexican law enforcement.
Anyone with information about foreign fugitives currently in the U.S. is asked to contact ICE at 866-347-2423
