Mexico Trucker Online

MEXICO CITY — Mexico extradited three suspects to the United States on Friday, including a man wanted in the killing of a California Army National Guard soldier on leave from Iraq.

Fabian Urrea, 21, a U.S. citizen, is accused of shooting Jorge Estrada, 24, while Estrada was on leave from Iraq for the birth of his wife’s child in 2005. Prosecutors said Urrea — the former boyfriend of Estrada’s wife and the father of her child — had argued with the Guardsman about visiting the infant.

Urrea was arrested Jan. 30 in the northern city of Culiacan, in Sinaloa state, and held in Mexico City until he was handed over to U.S. authorities on Friday.

“A joint effort involving the U.S. Marshals Service, Sinaloa state police, and police from Murrieta, California, resulted in Urrea’s capture,” the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.

The embassy noted that Mexico has sent 47 suspects to the United States so far in 2007, putting the country on track to surpass last year’s record 63 extraditions.

Also extradited on Friday were two Mexican citizens: Isaias Martinez Reyes, who is wanted in Seattle on charges of raping a 10-year-old at least 15 times between 2001 and 2004; and Ismael Terrazas Torres, who escaped in 1989 from La Tuna federal prison in Anthony, Texas, where he was serving a drug distribution sentence.