LAPD fugitive arrested in Mexico

Alvaro Luna-Jara, a member of the Dogtown street gang, is suspected of shooting and killing 12-year-old Steven Morales on Avenue 58 in 1998. Luna-Jara fled to Mexico and was nabbed on a remote ranch near La Yesca in Nayarit by agents of the Agencia Federal de Investigacions and officers from the Nayarit State Judicial Police, acting on information provided by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the LAPD, the Los Angeles Regional Fugitive Task Force, and the Mexico City Field Office of the United States Marshals Service. “The arrest of Alvaro Luna-Jara was a textbook example of the benefits of the international law enforcement community, the judicial system and governments working together," said John Clark, commander of the Los Angeles Regional Fugitive Task Force, in a release.