McAllen, Texas – The United States Marshals Service-multi
agency led Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Fugitive Task Force (GCVOFTF) announce
the arrests of two fugitives wanted in Mexico.
Humberto Villasenor-Soto and Osvaldo De La Paz-Soto are
wanted by Mexican Authorities of the Procuraduria General De Justicia Del EDO
for Homicide. On January 2013, Villasenor-Soto and his cousin De La Paz-Soto
allegedly shot and killed a young male in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, as he
attempted to help and protect his mother from Villasenor-Soto and De La
Paz-Soto. It is alleged that Villasenor-Soto and De La Paz-Soto held a gun to
the victim’s mother as they carjacked her vehicle from the front driveway of
her residence. The teenage boy victim was fatally shot as Villasenor-Soto and
De La Paz-Soto drove away with the stolen vehicle. Mexican Authorities from the
Procuraduria General De Justicia Del EDO contacted the United States Marshals
Service when they learned that the assailants fled into the United States to
avoid apprehension. The GCVOFTF in McAllen, Texas, were requested to assist in
the apprehension of the two foreign fugitives.
On October 8, 2013, members of the GCVOFTF developed
information that Villasenor-Soto and De La Paz-Soto were hiding in an apartment
complex in Edinburg, Texas. Members of the GCVOFTF approached and made entry
into the apartment after observing De La Paz-Soto walk into the apartment.
Members of the GCVOFTF arrested Villasenor-Soto and De La Paz Soto after
finding them inside a bedroom. Villasenor-Soto and De La Paz-Soto were turned
over to Mexican Authorities at the Hidalgo Port of Entry with the assistance of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The GCVOFTF is a team comprised of law enforcement officers
from the Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco & Firearms, Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department,
Homeland Security Investigations,
McAllen P.D., Mission P.D., San Juan P.D., Starr County
Sheriff’s Department, TDCJ Office of
Inspector General, Texas Department of Public Safety, U.S.
Marshals Service and Weslaco
P.D.
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