Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 12

ICE Deports Mexican Man Wanted for Cop Killing

DURANGO, Colo. — An illegal alien wanted for killing a Mexican police officer was repatriated back to Mexico May 26 by ICE agents.

Jose Luis Ventura-Molina, 48, aka Manuel Avila, was deported after he was arrested following an anonymous tip to ICE agents in Alamosa, Colo. The informant said Ventura-Molina was a fugitive wanted for murdering his son-in-law, a Michoacan, Mexico, police officer, in 2001.

ICE Intelligence and International Affairs offices coordinated collecting information from Mexico's Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado and the Agencia Federal de Investigaciones and confirmed the warrant through photographic and fingerprint identification.

Ventura-Molina reportedly fled Mexico following the murder and illegally entered the United States in 2002, taking up residence in the Alamosa area using the name Manuel Avila. He was arrested on minor charges by local law enforcement in late 2004 and remained in prison until ICE identified and deported him from the United States.

ICE records revealed Ventura-Molina had previously been arrested and returned to Mexico under his assumed identity because U.S. law enforcement was not aware of the Mexican murder warrant. Ventura-Molina later illegally re-entered the United States.

“Our agents routinely work with all varieties of law enforcement, including international agencies, to bring criminals to justice,” said Jeffrey Copp, Special Agent-in-Charge of the ICE Denver office. “It’s important that we send a strong signal that criminals will not be allowed to use the United States as a haven from prosecution.”

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