U.S.-Mexico cooperation results in murder suspect’s capture

When 34-year-old Ana Maria Garcia went missing last month, the Ontario woman’s family immediately suspected her boyfriend was somehow involved, authorities said.There was a trail of blood leading from the couple’s bedroom to the living room and, like Garcia, Mario Reyes was nowhere to be found. ‘We knew right away,’ said Garcia’s brother, Lorenzo Garcia. ‘Because he never left her alone for a moment. He was very possessive.’ Investigators began to monitor credit and debit cards belonging to the couple, and pieced together a trail of evidence that seemed to indicate that Reyes, 35, had killed Garcia and fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution, authorities said. In the past, that often would mean months or even years before a suspect was apprehended. But with increasing cooperation between U.S. authorities and their counterparts in Mexico, hiding out south of the border isn’t as easy as it used to be -- as Reyes was about to find out.