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From Breitbart: HOUSTON, Texas — A Honduran migrant who entered the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor now faces a murder charge in Harris County, Texas. The man was ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge in 2010 after failing to show up for scheduled hearings, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force arrested 33-year-old Alex Mejia-Pineda in Huntsville, Texas, last week on a charge that he participated in the murder of Erik Eduardo Zavala-Flores, 28, according to Fox 26 Houston.
Prosecutors say Mejia-Pineda and co-defendant Alex Herrera Calderon, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, shot Zavala-Flores in the parking lot of a bar in northeast Houston. Police found the victim’s body in a burned truck in San Jacinto County.
A spokesman for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston told Breitbart Texas that Mejia-Pineda entered the U.S. illegally as an unaccompanied minor. In 2010, an immigration judge under the Obama-Biden administration ordered the then 19-year-old Honduran man deported. Mejia-Pineda had no further contact with law enforcement until his arrest last week.
According to Fox26 Houston, an autopsy revealed Zavala-Flores was shot to death before his body was left in the truck and then burned:
The investigation and witness statements revealed Zavala-Flores was shot in the parking lot of the bar, loaded into his pickup and driven away by a suspect. A second suspect followed in his own vehicle. They took Zavala-Flores to a remote area and set fire to his truck with him inside.
Mejia-Pineda and Calderon have both been charged with the murder of Zavala-Flores.
Mejia-Pineda is being held on a bond of $500,000, and ERO officers placed an immigration detainer on him. His next court appearance is scheduled for February 13, 2025.
Calderon is being held on a $100,000 bond, and his next court date is set for January 16, 2025.
2 arrested after body found in burning vehicle in San Jacinto County | FOX 26 Houston https://t.co/Nu5RGPdWdk
— Scott Lease (@ScottLeaseTX) December 23, 2024
Alex Mejía Pineda, de 33 años, está acusado de asesinato en el Tribunal Estatal de Distrito 262. Alex Herrera Calderón, de 24 años, está acusado de manipulación de un cadáver humano en el mismo tribunal. ➡️ https://t.co/VC59Lvz08b pic.twitter.com/Eky8ti8j1U
— Noticias45Houston (@noticiashouston) December 18, 2024
The “Newcomer” Nuisance. https://t.co/rd58YzpTz5
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 23, 2024
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