Jalisco arrest of fugitive Jorge Abel Hurtado, Digi Mart USA News (Tlajomulco, Jalisco, Mexico): A fugitive sought by U.S. authorities for nearly three decades was detained by Jalisco state police in Tlajomulco.
According to the report, the 50-year-old man escaped a prison in California and had been hiding in Jalisco for approximately 10 years.
Authorities identified the suspect as Jorge Abel Hurtado, known as “George Hurtado.” According to officials, he was serving a sentence for methamphetamine trafficking in Taft, California, from which he escaped in June 2000.
According to the information provided, after his escape he crossed into Mexico and hid in Tijuana and Mexicali, Baja California, before settling in Jalisco.
He was captured during an operation carried out by the Intelligence Command of the Jalisco State Police in coordination with the Cyber Police, the Drone Unit and the Strategic Operations Force for Citizen Protection (FOEP). State authorities said he was located through investigative work, technological monitoring and information exchange with U.S.
agencies, which helped identify his possible movement points and narrow the search in Tlajomulco.
He was finally located near López Mateos Avenue, close to its intersection with Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana, in the Provenza subdivision, where the operation to apprehend him was launched. After confirming his identity and verifying an active arrest warrant and an active immigration control request issued by the U.S.
Marshals Service, he was turned over to the National Migration Institute to handle the procedures for his transfer back to the United States.
