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Former FBI "Ten Most Wanted" Fugitive Extradited from Mexico Agencies Collaborate to Ensure Safe Return of Triple Homicide Suspect to Idaho

FBI Salt Lake City March 04, 2011
  • FBI Salt Lake City Press Office

Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Salt Lake City Field Office James S. McTighe and Elmore County Sheriff Rick Layher announce the return of Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco to Elmore County, Idaho. FBI Special Agents escorted the former FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive from Mexico to Salt Lake City, Utah by plane on March 3, 2011. After arriving at Salt Lake City International Airport, FBI Special Agents, Elmore County Sheriff and Idaho State Police detectives transported Lopez-Orozco by vehicle to the Elmore County Jail. Lopez-Orozco faces criminal charges in Elmore County for the murders of his girlfriend and her two children in 2002. Their bodies were discovered in a burned out vehicle near the Snake River in Idaho.

Lopez-Orozco was placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list in March 2005. He was apprehended in Zihuatanejo, Mexico by the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Mexican Federal Ministerial Police in October 2009. "The FBI extends its gratitude to the government in Mexico for its attention to this matter. By assisting in the arrest and extradition of Lopez-Orozco authorities in Mexico have allowed the judicial process to continue here in the United States, specifically in Elmore County, Idaho where he is accused of murdering three people," said Special Agent in Charge James McTighe.

The FBI Salt Lake City Field Office would also like to thank the FBI's Legal Attaché office in Mexico City, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Idaho, the U.S. Justice Department's Office of International Affairs in the Criminal Division, the U.S. Department of State, the Elmore County Sheriff's Office, the Elmore County Prosecutor's Office, and the Idaho State Police for their assistance.

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