Tucson – On Tuesday, Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, who is charged with first-degree murder of United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was arraigned in federal district court in Tucson. According to U.S. Attorney Robert S Brewer, Mexican authorities arrested Favela-Astorga in October 2017.
Mexico extradited Favela-Astorga to the U.S. on January 31, 2020.
Favela-Astorga is one of seven defendants charged in the murder of Agent Terry.
In 2010, two of the weapons linked to the Obama administration’s failed “Fast and Furious” operation turned up near the scene of Agent Terry’s murder in the Arizona desert.
Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza were arrested in Mexico and subsequently extradited to the U.S. in 2014 the jury convicted them a first-degree murder in October 2015. The court sentenced both men to life in prison.
Mexican authorities arrested Horacio Osorio-Arellanes and extradited him to the U.S. in 2018. A jury convicted him first-degree in February 2019. The court sentenced him to life in prison.
Manuel Osorio-Arellanes and Rosario Rafael Burboa-Alvarez pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. The court sentenced Osorio-Arellanes and Burboa-Alvarez to 324 months in prison.