Ramon Alire Hurtado
Federal agents escort Ramon Alire Hurtado to the El Paso County Jail on Tuesday. (Ruben R. Ramirez / El Paso Times)
A man who had previously been extradited to Mexico and accused in a woman's murder in Juárez 20 years ago was arrested Tuesday in El Paso.
U.S. Marshals Service deputies arrested Ramon Alire Hurtado, 43, in the Lower Valley on a warrant that remains sealed, an official said. He was taken to the El Paso County Jail.
According to news reports in 2009 from Mexico, Hurtado had been accused in the beating death of Yolanda Alvarez Equihua whose body was found along a path in the colonia Satelite area of Juárez in 1993. Alvarez was pregnant at the time.
In September 2008, Hurtado was arrested in El Paso, reports stated. He was then taken to San Antonio before being extradited to Mexico City on March 25, 2009.
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disposition of the homicide charge that Hurtado faced in Mexico is unknown.
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