Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted List Caught in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Agents of Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Agency have arrested Brenda Berenice Delgado Reynaga, wanted in the United States for homicide and recently included on the 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office, or PGR, said.

The PGR said in a bulletin that a provisional arrest warrant for international extradition was issued for Delgado last April 1 by the 6th District Federal Court for Criminal Cases.

The woman, 33, is wanted for homicide by the Dallas County District Court in Texas.

U.S. authorities accuse her of being the intellectual author of the homicide on Sept. 2, 2015, of Kendra Hatcher, a dentist who apparently had a love affair with Delgado’s previous partner, “which makes this murder a crime of passion,” the PGR said.

“According to the investigation, the suspect employed a 31-year-old man as a hired gun to commit the homicide, with the collaboration of a female friend,” it said.

The PGR said the FBI recently decided to classify the accused, a Mexican citizen, as one of the 10 Most Wanted Fugitives in the United States, offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to her capture.

According to the PGR, “upon receiving the request for a detention for the purpose of extradition, members of its Criminal Investigation Agency deployed search cells in places where the fugitive’s family members and friend could help find her, in the states of San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Leon, Mexico state and Mexico City.

Thanks to this collaboration with U.S. authorities, Delgado was nabbed at a home in the city of Torreon, Coahuila state, the agency said.

Agents of the Criminal Investigation Agency of the PGR, affiliated with Interpol Mexico, took her to Mexico City, where she will be held at Santa Marta Acatitla Prison while awaiting completion of the legal procedures for her extradition to the United States.