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Published on Friday, October 03, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
PANORAMA CITY - After 17 years on the run, an ex-gang member suspected of gunning down a Burbank high school student was finally jailed Friday in Mexico - where he was teaching English at a respected university.
Rodolfo Gallegos, 33, was arrested Thursday morning at his residence in the city of Celaya, where he was teaching at the Universidad de Guanajuato, Celaya. U.S. and Mexican authorities are negotiating his extradition, a process that could take months or years, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Officials from the university could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.
Gallegos was 16 and a member of the Blythe Street gang when he killed 16-year-old Anthony Caldera after mistaking Caldera and his friends for rival gang members, according to a statement from the District Attorney's Office
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