Suspect arrested in case of American killed on border lake while riding Jet Ski in 2010
The Mexican Navy announced Monday that it detained an alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel who is suspected in the 2010 killing of American David Hartley on a lake near the U.S.-Mexico border, KDVR.com reported.
"If this gentleman, this suspect does have involvement, we want to know where David is at. Let's get some evidence of his remains and let us as a family two years later be able to have some closure," Tiffany Hartley, the victim's widow, said from her Colorado home. "I pray that the Mexico authorities and officials keep him there and that they question him and ask him how he's linked to David."
"We want to know where David is. . ."
- Tiffany Hartley
Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo was detained last week and presented to the media Monday.
Tiffany Hartley said she was with her husband riding Jet Skis on Falcon Lake in south Texas when they were ambushed. David Hartley was shot dead and killed and his wife was unable to haul his body onto her watercraft before being forced to flee.
Martinez, known as "The Squirrel," also is suspected of being behind of the 2010 massacre of 72 migrants in Tamaulipas, Mexico’s Navy said in a statement.
The statement also said Martinez was suspected to be responsible for graves found with more than 200 bodies in that state, "and the execution of more than 50 people by his own hands in different parts of the countr
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/09/wife-murdered-colorado-man-hopeful-mexico-will-try-cartel-leader/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews#ixzz28pe0fLUsI vaguely remember when this happened. I think they gave the wife grief for some time accusing her of killing him.
