Agustín Vásquez Mendoza

Infobox FBI Ten Most Wanted 1990s
name = Agustín Vásquez Mendoza


crime = murder of undercover
DEA agent
birth_date = 3/23/74, 10/1/72, 10/1/69
birth_place = Michoacán, Mexico
age = 33, 34, 37
death_date =
death_place =
added_date = August 3, 1996
caught_date = July 9, 2000
remove_date =
number = 445
status = Caught
Status choices: Caught Dead Removed
Status blank or other defaults to currently on list

Agustín Vásquez Mendoza is a Mexican citizen who was sought for four years in the late 1990s by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the 445th FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive for his alleged participation in a drug conspiracy which led to the death of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent. DEA Special Agent Richard Fass was murdered while acting, in an undercover capacity, as a buyer of a significant quantity of methamphetamine from Vásquez Mendoza. He was arrested in Puebla by Mexican authorities on July 9, 2000. [ [http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0609deaagent0609.html Convict defends relative on trial in fed agent's killing] Michael Kiefer "The Arizona Republic" (June 9, 2006).] [ [http://www.state.gov/p/inl/narc/rewards/39402.htm U.S. Government Reward Notice] ]

According to the DEA, on June 30, 1994, Vásquez Mendoza and associates, Rafael Rubio Méndez, Juan Vásquez Rubio and Eduardo Aceves Vásquez, shot Special Agent Richard E. Fass in Glendale, Arizona, and robbed him of US$160,000 believed to be used for the purchase of methamphetamines. He was indicted in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 11, 1994 and was entered into the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives' database on August 3, 1996 at place 445. He remained on the run for four years until his arrest.

On January 29, 2005, the DEA announced Vásquez Mendoza’s extradition from Mexico to stand trial. He was transported to Phoenix, Arizona, to be tried for First Degree Murder, Conspiracy/Armed Robbery, Attempted Murder, Attempted Armed Robbery, Kidnapping and First Degree Burglary.

ee also

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s

References

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/19970116014833/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/mendoza.htm The Internet Wayback Machine's archive of Vásquez Mendoza's FBI top ten most wanted poster]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/politics/30fugitive.html Mexican Being Extradited in U.S. Drug Agent's Slaying] "New York Times", January 30 2005