San Diego
A fugitive who had been hiding out in Mexico since his 1987 indictment for cocaine trafficking by a federal grand jury has been arrested, the FBI announced Friday.
Thomas A. Hughes of the San Diego FBI office said Richard Elliott Huse was arrested Thursday in Cabo San Lucas by the Mexican Federal Judicial Police.
Huse is being held by American agents in Los Angeles, Hughes said.
Hughes said that Huse fled to Mexico after he was charged by a federal grand jury in Jackson, Miss. Huse, a longtime resident of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was indicted again late last year by a federal grand jury in San Diego.
The 1988 indictment also covered 22 other suspects who engaged in what authorities labeled “large-scale” cocaine trafficking.
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