Agent's suspected killer had escaped Border Patro

New report reveals that a man accused of killing a local Border Patrol agent, and eluded extradition, had been in custody

By Greg Moran, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.

Months before a suspected drug smuggler was accused of running down and killing a local Border Patrol agent in January 2008, U.S. officials had him in custody, only to see him escape in a Border Patrol vehicle.

The revelation about the earlier arrest is in a seven-paragraph statement of facts in a court file for Jesús Navarro Montes.

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