AGUSTIN VASQUEZ-MENDOZA

'Augustin Vazquez-Mendoza' was sought for four years in the late 1990s as the 445th FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive for his alleged participation in a drug conspiracy which led to the death of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent. DEA Special Agent Richard Fass was murdered while acting, in an undercover capacity, as a buyer of a significant quantity of methamphetamine from Vasquez-Mendoza. He was arrested by Mexican authorities on July 9, 2000.^[1][2]
According to the DEA, on June 30, 1994, Vasquez-Mendoza and associates, Rafael Rubio-Mendez, Juan Vasquez-Rubio and Eduardo Aceves-Vasquez, shot Special Agent Richard E. Fass in Glendale, Arizona and robbed him of US$160,000 believed to be used for the purchase of methamphetamines. He was indicted in Phoenix, Arizona on July 11, 1994 and was entered into the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives' database on August 3, 1996 at place 445. He remained on the run for four years until his arrest.
On January 29, 2005, the DEA announced Vasquez-Mendoza’s extradition from Mexico to stand trial. He was transported to Phoenix, Arizona to be tried for First Degree Murder, Conspiracy/Armed Robbery, Attempted Murder, Attempted Armed Robbery, Kidnapping and First Degree Burglary.

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FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s

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1. Convict defends relative on trial in fed agent's killing Michael Kiefer The Arizona Republic (June 9, 2006).
2. U.S. Government Reward Notice