Suspect arrested in ’99 Ecuador killing
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From Times Wire Reports
A suspect in the 1999 assassination of a leftist former Ecuadorean presidential candidate was handed over to U.S. immigration officials after being arrested in a routine traffic stop in the hamlet of Palenville.
Christian Steven Ponce, 36, of Ecuador was pulled over for not wearing his seat belt, police said, but a check showed he was wanted in Ecuador in connection with the killing of Jaime Hurtado and his two assistants outside Ecuador’s Congress.
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