Posted on 06/23/2006 7:36:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Wouldn't surprise me at all if another wife killer wanted to contact Greta.
I expect more events like this in the future. We do indeed live in interesting times.
My tagline says it all.
Added tidbits in AP update:
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" ... Darren Mack, 45, surrendered at a hotel in the Pacific coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Thursday night, authorities said.
"Mack is now in custody of FBI agents and Mexican immigration authorities," FBI spokesman David Staretz in Las Vegas said. "He will be escorted back to Nevada later today."
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Mack's Reno attorney, Scott Freeman, issued a brief statement Friday, saying he and co-counsel David Chesnoff of Las Vegas are "eager" to begin a defense.
"Mr. Mack had options available to him to fight extradition through a lawful court process in Mexico which would have been a benefit to him," Freeman told The Associated Press. "Instead he chose to voluntarily surrender.
"He did so to be with his family, his children and to defend himself."
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Charla Mack's mother, Soorya Townley, and brother, Christopher Broughton, planned a Friday afternoon press conference in Reno. ..."
My tagline should read:
There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous people and the most dangerous person is the one who has nothing left to lose.
The system cuts it off. Sorry.
Uh-oh - just noticed he surrendered "at a hotel" in PV. That means not on US soil, as in the US consulate. That means DP is off the table. Grrrr.
News said he is being flown from PV to Dallas and will be taken into custody there at DFW.
FOX adds new info:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200717,00.html
"... Friday, June 23, 2006
RENO, Nev. — An international manhunt ended peacefully Friday when a Nevada man suspected of murdering his wife and shooting a judge turned himself into authorities in Mexico, FBI officials told FOX News.
Darren Mack, a former Reno pawnshop dealer, surrendered to Mexican immigration officials in Puerto Vallarta just after midnight Friday morning.
Mack is not fighting extradition, and will be returned to the United States on an American Airlines flight to Dallas, from where he will be flown to Reno to face charges, authorities said.
Mack, 45, is charged with murder in the death of his estranged wife, Charla Mack, 39, whose body was found in a pool of blood in his town house garage on June 12. The same day, Family Court Judge Chuck Weller was shot in the chest as he stood near his courthouse office window.
Weller, who survived the shooting, had been handling the couple's divorce case. No charge have yet been filed in the attack on Weller.
Mack chose not to fight extradition so that he could be with his family, his attorney, Scott Freemand, told FOX News. Freeman expected Mack to return to Reno by the end of the day.
Mack's surrender comes a day after he was expected to turn himself in the U.S. Consulate in Puerto Vallarta. Calls had been going back and forth between Mack and a U.S. district attorney, who Mack has known for 20 years, as officials tried to negotiate the suspect's surrender. Mack was trying to strike a deal so he could avoid the death penalty, but no such deal was reached.
Officials were please with the arrest.
"The arrest of accused killer Darren Roy Mack proves that criminals cannot find a safe haven on either side of the border," said Antonio Garza, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Police have known since Monday that he has been in Mexico. There had been several sightings of Mack in Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, Mazatlan and around Puerto Vallarta before he was taken into custody. ..."
Mack says he wants "to be close to his family." Ha! He either ignored them, refused to pay for their upkeep, or killed them - and now wants to be "close to them"?
OH! He must mean his *mother.*
another ap article update
Nevada fugitive caught in Mexico
By SANDRA CHEREB, | Friday, Jun 23 2006 9:15 AM
http://www.bakersfield.com/119/story/58518.html
A former pawn shop owner wanted in the slaying of his estranged wife and the shooting of the judge handling their divorce was arrested in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
Darren Mack, 45, surrendered at a hotel in the Pacific coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Thursday night, authorities said.
"Mack is now in custody of FBI agents and Mexican immigration authorities," FBI spokesman David Staretz in Las Vegas said. "He will be escorted back to Nevada later today."
Mack is charged with the murder of his estranged wife, Charla Mack, whose body was found in a pool of blood in his town house garage June 12, hours after Judge Chuck Weller was shot in the chest while standing by the window of his courthouse office. No charge has been filed yet in the attack on Weller, who survived.
Mack's Reno attorney, Scott Freeman, issued a brief statement Friday, saying he and co-counsel David Chesnoff of Las Vegas are "eager" to begin a defense.
"Mr. Mack had options available to him to fight extradition through a lawful court process in Mexico which would have been a benefit to him," Freeman told The Associated Press. "Instead he chose to voluntarily surrender.
"He did so to be with his family, his children and to defend himself."
On Thursday, authorities said Mack was believed to be on Mexico's west coast and had been spotted previously in Baja California. He had arranged to surrender Thursday morning at the U.S. consulate in Puerto Vallarta, but never showed up.
Reno police, who planned a 10:15 a.m. news conference on the case, said the arrest came after cooperation between the FBI and Mexican authorities.
"The arrest of accused killer Darren Roy Mack proves that criminals cannot find a safe haven on either side of the border," Tony Garza, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said in a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
Mack contacted Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick earlier this week and "expressed a desire to surrender," Police Chief Michael Poehlman said at a news conference Thursday.
Gammick said that Mack sounded "concerned" and that he thought Mack was being "pretty straight up" when arranging the plan.
In addition to charging Mack with the murder of his estranged wife, Poehlman said police have probable cause to charge him with attempted murder in the sniper attack on Weller.
Gammick said he's talked with Mack, who he has known for 20 years, by phone about a dozen times over the past four days. They've also communicated by e-mail.
"He did express to me that he called me because I'm the only one he trusts in the system," Gammick said.
Gammick on Thursday also said that Mack has contacted his Reno lawyer, Scott Freeman, but he wouldn't provide details. Freeman was unavailable for comment, his secretary said.
Gammick said there's no evidence anyone else was involved in the stabbing of Charla Mack or the shooting of Weller, but authorities don't know if he had help fleeing the country.
Charla Mack's mother, Soorya Townley, and brother, Christopher Broughton, planned a Friday afternoon press conference in Reno.
Poehlman said police had a "credible" sighting of Mack at a resort swimming pool in Cabo San Lucas on June 15. He's believed to have been in La Paz on the Baja Peninsula two days later and on Mexico's west coast around Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta earlier this week.
"Our belief is he has a large sum of cash with him," Poehlman said.
Mack was a co-owner of Palace Jewelry & Loan Co. Inc., a pawn shop, until he turned over control in 2005 to his mother, a lawyer for the business said. Mack earned more than $500,000 a year and had a net worth of $9.4 million as recently as 2004, according to court documents.
The FBI added Mack to its list of "Most Wanted" fugitives Tuesday, the same day Charla Mack, 39, was buried. He was considered armed and dangerous, "with access to all types of weapons," FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said.
A search warrant affidavit said officers found several boxes of ammunition and an empty gun case with a receipt for a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle equipped with a laser sighting device at Mack's town house, where Charla Mack's body was found in the garage in a pool of blood in the hours after Weller was shot.
Weller was hit in the chest from three football fields away while standing next to the window in his third-floor office at the Washoe County courthouse complex. He was released from the hospital last week and is recovering at an undisclosed location under guard.
Oh yeah - now the attorney adds the "children" into the "close to family" statement, though Mack never asked about nor mentioned the children when talking with the DA two days ago. He only mentioned his mother and brother.
Press conference coming up in a few minutes ...
They are holding him in jail in Dallas; he will be transferred by NV state airplane to Reno, to be formally arrested and charged for the attempted murder of Judge Weller.
(Rented Ford Explorer still not found. There is a charge of grand theft auto on that one, filed on a complaint by Budget Rent-A-Car that it's been missing past the contracted return date of 6-13-06. Imagine that stands in line behind murder and attempted murder.)
Gun used in Weller shooting not yet found.
Musta won the trip on the Price is Right. That's where they always sent people.
Good news - DP has *not* been taken off the table ...
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http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/3217951.html
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Latest on Mack Capture
Manhunt is Over
STAFF
Friday morning Reno Police announced that Darren Mack has turned himself in to FBI agents and Mexican authorities, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Authorities took custody of Mack around 10:30PM Thursday night, at a hotel.
Mack was flown back to the United States, to Dallas, early Friday. He will then need to be extradited from Texas, to Nevada. Reno Police tell Newschannel 8 that there are no immediate plans to return Mack to Reno on Friday, but that he could be brought back as early as late Friday. Reno Police detectives flew to Dallas on Friday to interview Mack, and take him into custody.
Washoe Count District Attorney Dick Gammick told Newschannel 8 that the death penalty has not been ruled out, and that no agreement is in place with Mack's lawyers to set that sentence aside.
Gammick also stated that his twenty year relationship with Mack would be no factor in his office prosecuting the case, but that another attorney had been assigned to actually taking Mack to court. ..."
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