A fugitive who was featured on the television show America’s Most Wanted was captured in Mexico working as a police officer 20 years after his involvement in a shooting in Ohio.
Antonio Riano, who was on the Butler County Sheriff’s Office “Most Wanted” list, was “charged in the Butler County Court of Common Pleas” for the death of 25-year-old Benjamin Becarra in December 2004, according to a press release from the United States Marshals Service.
Riano — whom Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested on Thursday in Zapotitlan Palmas, Oaxaca, Mexico — had been working as a police officer, according to the press release.
“This type of apprehension would not be possible without the cooperation and due diligence of both the Prosecutor’s Office investigators, the United States Marshal Service, and the United States Department of Justice,” Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser said in a statement.
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