FBI Media Release
Special Agent in Charge Manuel E. Mora
660 Mesa Hills Drive    El Paso, TX 79912 
To: All print and broadcast media
Contact:  Special Agent Andrea Simmons, 915.832.5373

October 30, 2007

Fugitive arrested

A capital murder fugitive was arrested this afternoon by the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force. Rogelio Vargas Jr., 29 years old, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was arrested on a murder warrant from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Vargas, who was born in El Paso, had been recently residing with family in San Elizario, Texas, when he was found and arrested without incident.

The El Paso Sheriff's Office assisted as part of the task force operation.