THE LONE STAR FUGITIVE TASK FORCE PARTNERS WITH THE SAN ANTONIO
POLICE DEPARTMENT IN HOMICIDE CASE
San
Antonio – The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and the San Antonio
Police Department’s Repeat Offender Program (ROP) partnered to
locate and arrest Homicide suspect Luis Trevino in the early morning
hours of Wednesday, April 18, 2007.
The body of a woman found by a passer-by in a shallow grave along
Thousand Oaks and Wurzbach Parkway on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 is
believed to be that of a missing San Antonio area singer named Alex
Countryman. The 24 year old mother disappeared on December 8, 2006
from the Bear Creek Apartments in San Antonio. San Antonio Police
Department Homicide Detectives were able to gather enough evidence
to get an arrest warrant issued on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 charging
Luis Trevino with murder. Once the warrant was issued, the Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force was contacted for assistance in locating
Trevino. Information was developed as to the possible whereabouts of
Trevino and after a short surveillance; he was spotted in an
apartment complex as he walked towards his vehicle. Upon exiting the
complex in his vehicle, Trevino was stopped by numerous police
vehicles and taken into custody without incident.
The United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas
LaFayette Collins said, “Those charged with crimes of violence will
always be targeted by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and its
partner agencies. If this investigation develops more suspects, the
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force stands ready to bring those suspects
in to answer for their charges.”
Participating agencies in this arrest:
- San Antonio Police Department
/Repeat Offender Program
- San Antonio Police Department /
Homicide Unit
- United States Attorney’s Office,
Western District of Texas
- United States Marshals Service,
Western District of Texas
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