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108 International Criminals Captured by Baja's PEP

Translated from an article in La Voz

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Terrorists, pedophiles, rapists and even murderers, are the types of fugitives wanted in the United States who come to hide in Baja California, but who are targeted by agents of the International Liaison Unit of the State Preventive Police, which has so far this year made 108 arrests.

Daniel de la Rosa Anaya, Secretary of State Public Security, reported that since the program began capturing international criminals, PEP has arrested hundreds of fugitives wanted for offenses such as murder, kidnapping, child abuse, rape, drug trafficking, fraud and extortion.

Three of the most dangerous international criminals were captured in the summer of 2013. Tobias, who was on the most-wanted list of the United States, kidnapped and raped a child under 10 years of age in Los Angeles, California. He was located and arrested in Playas de Rosarito this past April.

Another was Arnold Sherbow, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, who was wanted for making death threats by phone and email to Tulsi Gabbard, a Congressman from Hawaii. Sherbow fled to the Baja and was arrested in Tijuana in August.

The third most searched-for and found by PEP was Eduardo Q. Zepeda, a pederast and rapist from California. Zepeda used the social network of Facebook to find his victims. He was captured in Ensenada in June.

Since the founding of the UEI in 2002, 653 criminals have been captured, all of them hiding in Baja California, most of them wanted in California.