Fugitives featured on TV shows America’s Most Wanted Twenty years after his involvement in the Ohio shooting, he was arrested while working as a police officer in Mexico.
Antonio Liano, who was on the Butler County Sheriff’s Office’s “Most Wanted” list, was “charged in Butler County District Court” for the December 2004 murder of 25-year-old Benjamin Becarra. according to Press release from the U.S. Marshals Service.
According to a press release, Liano, who was arrested by U.S. Marshals deputies on Thursday in Zapotitlan Palmas, Oaxaca, Mexico, worked as a police officer.
“This arrest would not have been possible without the cooperation and due diligence of investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Justice,” Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser said in a statement.
According to court records, Liano, 72, known as “El Diablo,” has reportedly “faced a murder charge since 2005” in the death of Becarra, which occurred outside the Roundhouse Bar in Hamilton, Ohio. report.
Lead investigator for the prosecution, Paul Newton, said Becarra had been in a fight at the bar a few weeks earlier and was asked to leave when he returned. According to reports, Liano tried to help the bartender, but the two got into an argument and Liano allegedly shot Becarra “in the face.”
Riano is said to have fled the country after the shooting.
The media outlet reported that law enforcement authorities identified Riano on surveillance camera footage and found the “murder weapon” several days after he left the United States.
“Through our Violent Fugitive Task Force, the U.S. Marshals Service supports our state and local law enforcement partners in apprehending some of the region’s most dangerous fugitives,” U.S. Marshal Michael D. Black, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, said in a statement. “This arrest is the result of continued intelligence sharing between agencies and the determination of our investigators who never gave up on this case.”
After deputies arrested Liano, he was transported to Cincinnati and booked into the Butler County Jail, according to the press release.
Riano was being held without bail pending a hearing on Monday, the outlet reported.
