Fugitive who fled child sex charges found in Mexico, extradited to Sacramento, FBI says
A fugitive wanted for more than a decade, arrested and charged in 2006 for sex crimes involving a minor before fleeing the country, was recently found in Mexico, extradited and booked back into the Sacramento County jail last week, FBI officials announced Monday.
The FBI’s Sacramento field office said in a news release that Jose Cruz Naranjo Silva, 77, was located and detained on Aug. 19, 2019 by the Mexican government in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
FBI agents transported Silva to Sacramento on Friday and remanded him to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, which booked him into jail.
The Sheriff’s Office arrested Silva on suspicion of committing a lewd or lascivious act with a child under age 14, and he was charged by the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office in July 2006, according to the FBI news release. Silva then fled while out on bail.
The FBI in May 2008 obtained a federal warrant for Silva’s arrest at the request of the Sheriff’s Office, for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Silva remains in custody at the Sacramento County jail and is due to appear in court Tuesday afternoon. He is ineligible for bail.
This story was originally published January 6, 2020 at 9:05 AM.
