Officers from the Agency of Criminal Investigation launched a large scale search in four different states, finally arresting her in a house in Torreon, Coahuila, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
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USA authorities accuse her of being the intellectual author of the homicide on September 2, 2015, of Kendra Hatcher, a dentist who apparently had a love affair with Delgado’s previous partner, “which makes this murder a crime of passion”, the PGR said.
Thomas Class Sr. of the FBI’s Dallas precinct said, “Although she didn’t pull the trigger herself, she is still responsible for the murder”, CNN reports.
Delgado will be detained in Mexico City, pending proceedings for extradition to Dallas, Texas. She paid two accomplices in cash and drugs to shoot and kill Hatcher in a parking garage after she found out that Hatcher and her ex were planning to take a vacation together.
Hatcher’s family has been pushing for justice, and they were on hand Wednesday to listen to the FBI’s announcement about the ten most-wanted list.
She is only the ninth woman to every appear on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List since it was created in 1950. A reward of £70,000 was offered for information leading to her capture.Delgado was located at a private home on a narrow residential street of blocky, one- and two-story homes that invariably have bars on windows and gates.
Mexican Consul General Sergio Hayakawa has said in keeping with the country’s stance on the death penalty, Delgado will not be granted back to the United States unless prosecutors don’t seek a death sentence.
“We’re trying to get her extradited back here”, she said.
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk told Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT that an extradition agreement between Mexico and the US requires that the death penalty not be allowed.
Delgado is charged with capital murder and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. “When you look on that fugitives list, you see so many people that are on it for years and years and years, and I just didn’t want Brenda [Delgado] to be one of those people”.
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Dallas litigators are seeking life prison. Of the 506 fugitives to have ever made it on the list, 474 have been captured.
