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Show 4 toraemaey The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD A20 Long Arm ofthe Law Awaits U.S. Fugitives Fleeing to Mexico for Safe Haven THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “The majority of the fugitives, the Anglos, they're just not going erations of fugitives before them, to fit in rural Mexico,” Carney they came to Mexico running from number of Americans looking for freedom south of the border, they quickly got caught. said. “Some discomfort themselves to avoid getting caught. Some of them don’t use any subterfuge; they just sit down there waiting.” Many get caught because they Donald Rainey and Paul Parker can’t leave their pasts behind. piled into a battered Mustang with Rainey and Parker, who had con- forcementauthorities say at least two suspects have been located thanks to Mexicans whoidentified fugitives from pictures on the FBI's Internet page or TV shows like “America’s Most Wanted.” In February, Texas became the first state to post an Internetsite seeking information onlocal fugi- behind thestring of robberies and parole violations in Missouri that police say would havesent them to prison. They headed south, in a dream mentand assaultinga police offic- tives believed to have fled to Mexico. The marshals’office in Mexico er, respectively, didn’t eventry. City, opened in February 1999, imbued in Americanculture: “I’m nal of pistols and rifles from a going way down south, down Mexico way, where I can be free,” as Jimi Hendrix sang in “Hey Joe.” Rainey and Parker, who nowsit friend’s home. They were headed in a northern Mexican prison on the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” finds a new life under blue Mexican skies. Rainey standsat the bars of a prisonin this old cattle town on the U.S. border and talks about his crimes without passion or re- their girlfriends, aiming to leave trial for robbery and murder, didn’t find that dream. They felt » Mexico is also helping. Law en- whospeak Spanish. NOGALES, Mexico — Like genthe law. And like an increasing * Sunday, May28, 2000 only heat, thanks to more aggres- sive and effective Mexican police, whoalso are working in closer cooperation with their American counterparts. Quietly and without any attention in the news media, U.S. marshals began working out ofthe U.S. Embassyin MexicoCitylast year, with the blessing of the Mexican government, to track Americans tryingto escape the law. “They solved more cases in their first eight months than we had in the previous eight years,” James Carney, head of the marshals’ international division, said ofthe new office. That office is bolstered by increased cooperation with Mexican police, who are much more willing to share information than ever be- victions in the States for embezzleHeading south through New Mexico in December, they stole a Winnebago and grabbed an arse- for a resort on Mexico's western Pacific coast, much like the one wherethejailbreaker portrayed in morse. Asked why he came to Mexico, he says: “I don’t really knowthe answerto that. It wasn’t nial town of San Miguel Allende. Sometry to blend in, but that doesn’t often work, even for those robbery. ple wanted for murder, kidnapping, rape orbig-time drug dealing — and only recent crimes, ones police in the United States haven't givenup onyet. “Tf you don’t catch somebodyin the first year, you're not likely to out at a taco stand near theairport, and heis now awaiting extradition get them,” said one U.S. Justice Departmentofficial, who agreed to talk aboutthe situation onlyif not quoted by name. “They get more to Texas. timeto go underground.” have evidence ortips that a suspect has fled to Mexico. Addto that people who commit- ted lesser crimes, or who slipped unnoticed across the border, and the total could be in the thousands, among them spouses who take their kids to Mexico to avoid losing custody, tax evaders and’ fraud operators. 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Fugitives go just about everywhere, from small Mexican villages to well-known resorts like Ensenada, Mazatlan and the colo- to from thestart.” Their crime spree hit its peak girlfriends andstayed ina string of prosecutor in Sonoyta, acress the border from Arizona’s Organ Pipe fugitives says. “They were problem kids Yet Americans continue to here,” said Ricardo Montes, a about andstill callsit “a vacation.” Chief Deputy Sheriff Rick Fejan of the men’s hometown in Benton County, Mo., calls it something else. “They were on the run,” he steal their motor home.After that, authorities say, they beat up their They think the law is lax down formation my idea.” He says hestarted off on the wild ride at Parker’s suggestion fore, law enforcementofficials say. cal belief that making it over the borderwill set them free. “Americans come down hereall the timeto do their dirty business. passeson tips and surveillance in- Mexican police, who make any arrests. 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