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A fugitive needed in Massachusetts for a 1991 homicide has been captured at a Guatemala shrimp farm, in keeping with a information launch from the Massachusetts State Police.

A multiagency workforce spent greater than 30 years trying to find Mario R. Garcia, 50, earlier than creating a lead within the case earlier this yr indicating he was in Iztapa, Guatemala, a coastal city about 70 miles from Guatemala Metropolis.

After months of investigation, a terror workforce coordinated by a number of home and worldwide legislation enforcement companies deployed to a shrimp farm that Garcia had been working underneath an alias, Massachusetts police mentioned on Wednesday.

“Garcia tried to evade seize by leaping right into a physique of water on the shrimp farm however was apprehended and positioned into custody,” the discharge states.

“The truth that we had been capable of attain into Guatemala to carry accountable somebody who dedicated a murder in Massachusetts is a results of each tenacious police work and the worth of {our relationships} with native, federal and worldwide companions,” Massachusetts State Police Colonel Christopher S. Mason mentioned.

Garcia had been on the run since he was 19 years outdated, accused of stabbing Ismael Recinos-Garcia to loss of life throughout a battle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, in November 1991, in keeping with the discharge. He disappeared after an arrest warrant was issued.

Massachusetts police mentioned certainly one of their items discovered in 2014 Garcia had “probably fled to a distant space of his native Guatemala.”

“We’re glad that the sufferer, Ismael Recinos-Garcia, will lastly have justice be introduced forth for this mindless homicide,” Attleboro Police Chief Kyle P. Heagney mentioned.

District Lawyer Thomas M. Quinn confirmed Garcia will likely be extradited from Guatemala and prosecuted for Recinos-Garcia’s homicide in Bristol County, Massachusetts.

It’s unknown whether or not Garcia has acquired an lawyer.