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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2005 
Ríos Goes To Maximum Security Prison
 El Universal
| | A federal police helicopter transfers notorious fugitive Alfredo Ríos Galeana to the maximum security penitentiary La Palma, west of Mexico City. (Photo: Jorge Alvarado/El Universal) |
Police transferred crime boss Alfredo Ríos Galeana to a maximum security prison just west of Mexico City on Wednesday, moving him out of the city prison from which he escaped 20 years ago.
Taking no chances with the legendary bank robber who blasted his way out of a courtroom at Mexico City's Southern Penitentiary in 1986 police used a helicopter to fly Ríos Galeana from the city to Almoloya de Juárez, a few miles to the west.
Ríos Galeana was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the home he shared with his wife and children in the city of South Gate, just south of Los Angeles, California, on Monday and handed over to Mexican authorities. He was taken Tuesday to the Southern Penitentiary.
He is believed to have masterminded as many as two dozen bank robberies in the 1970s and 80s, and is charged with assault and homicide in killings and attacks against police officers.
He spent nearly 19 years as a fugitive, and said he had fled to the United States to leave his bloody past behind. He lived for 15 years under an alias as a quiet, church-going family man in a largely Mexican neighborhood of South Gate. |
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