{"id":1503,"date":"2024-08-06T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2024-08-06T07:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:52:50","slug":"us-murder-fugitive-el-diablo-found-working-as-mexican-police-officer-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"US murder fugitive \u2018El Diablo\u2019 found working as Mexican police officer 20 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

American detectives used social media to track a fugitive to\u00a0Oaxaca, Mexico<\/a>, 20 years after he allegedly shot a man dead outside an Ohio bar \u2013\u00a0and there learned that he’d picked up an unexpected new job, becoming a police officer himself.<\/p>\n

Antonio “El Diablo” Riano, now 62, was charged with\u00a0first-degree murder<\/a>, arrested in Zapotitlan Palmas and handed over to U.S. Marshals in Mexico City on Thursday, the agency wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n

Riano\u00a0fled Ohio<\/a> after allegedly shooting 25-year-old Benjamin Becarra on Dec. 19, 2004, outside the Roundhouse Bar in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said Riano and Becarra got into an argument inside the bar \u2013 when the dispute moved outside, a security camera allegedly caught Riano fatally shooting the other man in the face.<\/p>\n

OHIO MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING HIS 3 YOUNG SONS AT THEIR HOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Antonio Riano is pictured in his most recent mugshot, taken last week after his 20 years on the run came to an end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“When Riano was arrested in Mexico he was found to be working as a local police officer,” the U.S. Marshals office said. A photo snapped of the fugitive as he was taken into custody shows him wearing his police uniform.<\/p>\n

As the 62-year-old was taken into custody at the Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky International Airport, a reporter with\u00a0WKRC-TV<\/a>\u00a0asked why he became a police officer. In Spanish, he replied that he “wanted to help the people of Mexico.”<\/p>\n

OHIO DETECTIVE BRINGS DOWN ‘LADYKILLER’ SHAWN GRATE WITH 33-HOUR INTERROGATION: ‘A HUNGER TO KILL’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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