Overview
- Rosales Castillo was detained on January 16 in Pachuca, Hidalgo, and moved to Mexico City custody to await extradition, according to Mexican authorities and the FBI.
- He is wanted in North Carolina in the 2016 killing of Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le and faces charges including first-degree murder, armed robbery, vehicle theft and first-degree kidnapping.
- Mexican agencies SSPC and FGR worked with AIC-INTERPOL and the FBI’s Legal Attaché in Mexico to locate and arrest the fugitive.
- Investigators say he fled to Mexico on August 16, 2016 through Nogales; the victim’s car was later found in Phoenix and her body in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
- U.S. officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel and the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, credited cross-border cooperation for the arrest, while reports differ on the FBI reward amount, citing either $100,000 or $250,000.