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248:. He was 18 years old when he allegedly killed and wounded multiple people on different occasions in Washington in 2010. He is a member of the Eastside Lokotes Sureños (ELS) gang, a violent gang based in Washington. Mederos is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 10 and 140 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He has a tattoo of the letter “S” on his left shoulder and a tattoo of the letter “E” on his right shoulder. He speaks fluent English and Spanish.
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Mederos's accomplices who were also fugitives were captured not long after his arrest. Fugitive Andres Maurice Mendez was captured on September 3, 2020. Mendez was wanted in connection with the murder of Lucas-Alfonso. Fugitive Richard Charles Sanchez was captured on February 10, 2021. Sanchez
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On March 25, 2010, Mederos and another gang member ransacked a car in an apparent robbery in a South Tacoma alley. They suspected the owner of the car owed the gang money. The duo then got into a fight with three other men who confronted them. Mederos shot at the group of people as he fled on foot
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against the ELS. Unhappy with Zuniga's leadership and the unwanted attention from Love's murder, four members of the gang who were in prison at the time ordered the murder of Zuniga-Gonzalez. On May 12, 2010, Zuniga-Gonzalez was murdered at his home in Tacoma. 15-year-old
Naitaalii Toleafoa and
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Mederos, the older brother of Santiago Mederos, was arrested in May 2017 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Jesus was responsible for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Robert Tapia at a Tacoma intersection in October 2006. After the murder he fled to Mexico and spent 12 years on the run before being
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Mederos fled to Mexico after the murders. He had family in the Las Grutas,
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60:Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution
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360:"Interpol's most wanted Americans"
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865:Rose, David (February 11, 2021).
647:. The Olympian. December 14, 2010
210:Santiago "Pucho" Villalba Mederos
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382:"New Top Ten Fugitive"
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346:References
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127:American
978:Sureños
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310:Capture
252:Murders
79:"Pucho"
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320:Mexico
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