Published on Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By JULISSA McKINNON
Crispin Solorio Garcia, a longtime fugitive suspected of stabbing a 13-year-old girl in 1996, was escorted Wednesday by FBI agents from Mexico City to the Murrieta Police Department.
The extradition and arrest of Garcia officially closes a 12-year investigation that culminated last summer when FBI agents found Garcia, under a different name, serving jail time in Michoacan, Mexico.
Garcia is charged with murder in the death of his estranged girlfriend, Sophia Briseno, whom he is accused of stabbing multiple times with screwdrivers, authorities said.
Briseno, 13, was found dead Feb. 18, 1996, in a field near a cemetery off Ivy Street in Murrieta, according to Riverside County Superior Court records. Briseno suffered about 30 puncture wounds, court records say.
Lt. Dennis Vrooman said the Murrieta Police Department sought the FBI's help as soon as it determined Garcia, who is a Mexican citizen, had likely fled to Mexico shortly after Briseno's death
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