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Albuquerque, NM - The United States Marshals Service in El Paso Texas
arrested Juan Cruz (33) in El Paso Texas, Tuesday June 5, 2012 on an outstanding
warrant for a Failure to Appear on Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor. The
United States Marshals added Juan M. Cruz to the District of New Mexico’s Most
Wanted list in May of 2012. In 2010, Cruz was arrested for sexually assaulting a
child. Cruz absconded shortly after being released from custody pending the
results of his trial.
Investigators assigned to the United States Marshals Service Southwest
Investigative Fugitive Team (SWIFT) Task Force began Investigating Cruz’s case
and placed him on the New Mexico’s Most Wanted list in May. SWIFT Investigators
developed information that Cruz had fled the State of New Mexico into Texas. The
case was then given to the Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in El
Paso. Deputies and Task Force Officers assigned to the Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force located and arrested Cruz at family members house in El Paso, Texas. Cruz
will be booked into the El Paso County Detention Center pending extradition back
to New Mexico.
Also on June 5, 2012 Investigators with the SWIFT Task Force arrested Frank
Montano. Montano was listed on the New Mexico Department of Corrections Top Ten
Most Wanted. Montano was wanted on a probation violation. Montano was on the DOC
Top Ten due to his extensive criminal history. Investigators with SWIFT
relentlessly pursued Montano and convinced Montano to surrender to SWIFT Task
Force Officers.
United States Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria said “the Marshals Service holds a
proud tradition of success in the pursuit and apprehension of dangerous
fugitives, despite the attempts to elude by hiding in our cities, states or
countries, the Marshals Service and its many partners in local, county, state
and tribal police agencies work together to return dangerous fugitives back to
the jurisdiction where the crime was committed to that they can be judged by a
‘jury of their peers’.”
Additional information about the
U.S. Marshals Service can be found at
http://www.usmarshals.gov.
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