Mexico Arrests Individual on U.S. Extradition for Homicide

On November 29, 2000, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office announced that the Federal Judicial Police agents assigned to the national Central Office Interpol Mexico served the provisional arrest warrant pending international extradition of Jorge Mendez, which the Ninth Federal District Court in the Federal District, in the municipality of Tlatlaya, in the State of Mexico, on homicide charges in Texas state court. On August 16, 2000, the U.S. Government through its embassy transmitted diplomatic note 954, requesting the provisional arrest pending international extradition of Jorge Mendez, for whom the District Court Judge 339 Brian Rains in Texas issued an arrest warrant on a homicide charge…[more]