An Ohio homicide suspect caught fleeing back to Mexico is in the U.S. illegally, Border Hawk can exclusively report.
On Friday night, police located the body of a 26-year-old woman who was stabbed to death at a residence in Barberton, Ohio.
A murder warrant was issued for Marcos Antonio Huerta-Garcia, a 35-year-old male who had been living with the victim, WKYC reports.
Huerta-Garcia was captured on Saturday in southern Arizona.
“Through partnering law enforcement agencies from across the country and the use of automated license plate reader technology, he was located attempting to flee to Mexico,” the Barberton Police Department stated.
“He was stopped and arrested near the border by the Arizona Department of Public Safety on Highway I-8 around mile marker 67 Dateland in Yuma County, Arizona.”
Huerta-Garcia is being held in Yuma County Detention Center pending extradition to Ohio.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer for Huerta-Garcia, who hails from Zapotitlan Tablas, a city in Guerrero, Mexico.
“At an unknown time and place, Huerta-Garcia illegally entered the country,” the Department of Homeland Security told us.
The relationship between Huerta-Garcia and the victim remains unclear at this time.
An investigation is ongoing.
