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The U.S. Marshals Service received a tip that Jose Guadalupe Cruz-Garfias was in the Bay Area and a warrant was issued for his arrest March 2, according to Deputy U.S. Marshal Darrell Clark.
On Wednesday, Cruz-Garfias was arrested at 1726 Kentfield St. in Redwood City, Clark said. He was booked into Santa Clara County jail while awaiting extradition back to Mexico.
Cruz-Garfias is suspected of fatally shooting Bulmaro Cervantes Cruz in November 1998 while Cruz was shopping with his wife in a store in Paramuen, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacan, according to Clark.
Cruz-Garfias allegedly entered the store and shot Cruz several times, Clark said.
Several days later, he is also believed to have taken part in a double murder, according to Clark.
Mexican authorities contacted the U.S. Marshals Service several years after the murders when it was determined Cruz-Garfias had entered the United States.
Clark said he did not know what connection Cruz-Garfias has to Redwood City.
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