LONG ARM OF LAW REACHES ARGENTINA

A major arrest was made early this morning, as the residents of the Miami-Dade area went about their daily tasks. Hugo Ramon QUESADA, age 49, was arrested this morning by the Federal Police of Argentina (Interpol) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after having fled the United States on charges of homicide.

Members of the U.S. Marshals’ Miami based Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (FAST), through the investigative request of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Homicide Division, uncovered the trail of QUESADA through various investigative techniques that eventually lead to the arrest of QUESADA at the home of his parents in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in South America.

QUESADA was wanted on charges from the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Homicide Division for the violent 2003 strangulation of his wife, Maritza QUESADA, 29, and her father, Emilio XIQUES, 61. Both bodies were discovered at the residence at 13799 S.W. 147th Avenue, Miami, Florida, in August 2003. QUESADA was also wanted for the multiple stabbing and killing of his wife’s mother, Nieves Caridad XIQUES, at her home on 1321 S.W. 7th Street, #12, Miami, Florida in August 2003.

QUESADA is expected to be extradited to the United States to face charges of homicide and for his unlawful flight from the country to avoid prosecution.

The members of the U.S. Marshals led Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (FAST) and the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Homicide Division are pleased to put another one of this areas violent criminal offenders behind bars and to face the long arm of justice here in Miami, Florida.

For additional information and inquiries, please visit the United States Marshals Service website at www.usmarshals.gov