FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: August 05, 2008 Thomas Twohey, Deputy U.S. Marshal Public Affairs Officer (520) 904-3054   Mexican Policeman who Killed his Commander, Wounded Fellow Officer; Fled to the U.S.; is Returned to Mexico   Tucson, AZ - U.S. Marshals returned a Mexican citizen back to Mexico where he was wanted for shooting and killing a Nogales, Sonora, Mexico Police commander and wounding a fellow officer in 2006. The U.S. Marshals WANTED Task Force Mexico Investigative Liaison in Tucson was contacted by the Sonora State Investigative Police (PEI) to determine if Jose Domingo Felix-Cervantes, 35 years of age, had fled to the U.S. after the June 2006 shootings in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. According to PEI in Sonora, Mexico, Felix-Cervantes, while on duty and in uniform as a police officer, got into an argument with his commander, pulled a gun and shot him five times. The commander was killed and a fellow officer was wounded by several of the bullets that passed thru the commander. In 2007, the foreign fugitive investigation conducted by the U.S. Marshals determined that Felix-Cervantes was in custody at the Pima County Jail for drug and weapon charges. Felix-Cervantes, registered under the name Alfredo Victor Gonzalez Beltran and 4 other individuals were arrested in early 2007 with 100 pounds of Marijuana, firearms and $40,000 in U.S. currency. He was later sentenced to two and a half years in prison for those offenses. U.S. Marshals in the District of Arizona contacted the Attorney General of Mexico, Regional Legal and Law Enforcement Attaché in Los Angeles, California and notified them of the foreign fugitive investigative results. After taking custody of Felix-Cervantes from the Arizona Department of Corrections, U.S. Marshals in conjunction with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention and Removal Operations officers escorted Felix-Cervantes to the Nogales Point of Entry. Felix-Cervantes was then transferred to the custody of the Mexico Federal Investigative Agency (AFI). “This is another fine example of the continuing cooperation of U.S and Mexican officials to bring foreign fugitives to justice. We are pleased to be able to return this fugitive back to Mexico, so that he may answer charges there. Earlier this week, Mexico returned to the U.S., a violent sex offender who had assaulted a 73 year old lady as she was preparing to go to church.” said David Gonzales, United States Marshal for the District of Arizona. The U.S. Marshals Arizona WANTED Task Force has divisions in Phoenix, Yuma, Flagstaff and Tucson. Additional information on the U.S. Marshals is available at: www.usmarshals.gov.