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U.S. MARSHALS ARREST PUERTO
RICO POLICE TOP TEN FUGITIVE
 San
Juan, Puerto Rico - United States Marshal Herman Wirshing, the Puerto
Rico Police Department and its Extradition Division announce the arrest of
Alexander Padilla-Alvarez aka “Alex Minga.” Padilla-Alvarez was
wanted by the PR Police Department, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the
U.S. Marshals Service on charges of Murder and Weapons Law Violations and
had been sentenced in absentia by the Ponce District Court to a sentence of
approximately 18 years.
Recently, new information received and corroborated by the PR Fugitive Task
Force dictated that Alex Padilla-Alvarez could be residing in New Jersey,
specifically at 2-4, 8th Ave., Basement Floor, Newark, NJ, under the alias
of Julio E. Santaliz with his common-law-wife Jessenia Arroyo-Galarza and
supposedly working as a barber.
On December 4, 2006, in the early morning hours, the NY-NJ Regional Task
Force proceeded to establish surveillance at the above-mentioned residence.
At approximately 12:00 noon, fugitive exited the residence and proceeded to
drive out of the apartment complex in a 2003 Chevrolet Lumina. Immediately,
the NY-NJ Regional Task Force proceeded to conduct a felony vehicle stop
with the assistance of the Newark Police Department and arrested fugitive
without incident. At the time of his arrest fugitive alleged to be Julio E.
Santaliz. After conducting fingerprint analysis subject admitted that he was
Alexander Padilla-Alvarez aka “Alex Minga”.
Subject will be charged as a fugitive from justice in local court and housed
at the Essex County pending extradition to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
in order to face the charges of Murder and Weapons Law Violations as well as
serve his 18 year sentence in absentia.
Since 1997, the Puerto Rico Fugitive Task Force a High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Initiative comprises agents from the Puerto Rico
Police Department, the Puerto Rico Corrections Department, the Puerto Rico
State Marshals, Special Investigations Bureau and United States Marshals.
Since its creation this Task Force claims the arrest of more than 1,300
violent offenders. |
