The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that a Mexican citizen, who is a wanted criminal in connection with a kidnapping in Sinaloa, Mexico, was deported on Thursday after completing a 17-year sentence in Arizona for aggravated assault.
Sebastian Medina-Cuabras, who is also known as Carlos Lopez-Barraza, 39-year-old was turned over to ICE after serving a 17-year sentence with the Arizona Department of Corrections, officials said.
Cuabras was convicted of aggravated assault against a child, a Class 2 felony.
ICE officials, in a prepared statement, said, according to court records from the year 2000 February show that Medina-Cuabras opened fire during a road-rage incident, in which a 7-year-old was shot in the leg. The vehicle was carrying seven passengers, six of whom were minors.
ICE said that Cuabras tried to flee from the scene, but the driver chased him. A Police officer noticed the driver chase Cuabras vehicle and tracked down his vehicle.
When police checked the vehicle they found a semi-automatic gun and a handgun in his car and then took him into custody.
In a warrant issued by the Mexican authorities, Medina-Cuabras and three other people were involved in an organized crime and execution of a ransom plot in August 1999, ICE officials said.
The warrant stated that Cuabras and his accomplices were accused of abducting a man and held in a home tied up and blindfolded, ICE said.
Police authorities eventually found the home and rescued the victim, but Cuabras had already fled to the United States, ICE said.
On 15 November 2012, a federal judge ordered Mediana-Cuabras to be removed from the United States, an order that paved the road for his deportation after completing his sentence for the Arizona crime, ICE said.
The United States authorities transferred him to the Mexican authorities at Nogales along the Arizona-Mexico border.
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