Darren Mack is shown in this undated file photo released by the Reno Police Department. (AP Photo/Reno Police Department)
Darren Mack is shown in this undated file photo released by the Reno Police Department. (AP Photo/Reno Police Department)
Nice eyebrows, dude.
a pawn broker:
A man who goes through life with 3 Balls.
Just found out and put it on our big Darren Mack thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1647993/posts?page=538
Yea!!
Soms of the stories are saying he was arrested in Mexico, but I haven't seen any confirmation of it.
Let's hope he's not in Mexican custody, but at a US consulate, so the DP is still on the table. Bet it's not, though. The guy's slime.
Funny how the Mexicans will cooperate to detain an American on attempted murder charges, but will not assist in arresting Mexicans who have committed murders here. What hypocrisy. No justice.
ap Update - Caught in Puerto Vallarta
Suspect in Nev. shooting caught in Mexico
RENO, Nev. - A wealthy former pawn shop owner wanted in the death of his estranged wife and the sniper shooting of a judge was arrested in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
Darren Mack was arrested late Thursday in the Pacific coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta, U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said in a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
"The arrest of accused killer Darren Roy Mack proves that criminals cannot find a safe haven on either side of the border," Garza said. He said Mack was expected to back in Reno later Friday.
Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick confirmed Mack, 45, was in custody but would not elaborate on the arrest Friday morning.
On Thursday, Gammick said Mack had arranged to turn himself in at the U.S. consulate in Puerto Vallarta but had failed to show up.
Mack was charged with murder in the death of his estranged wife, 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 and has been recovering under guard at an undisclosed location, had been handling the couple's divorce case. No charges have yet been filed in his shooting.
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.
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. He had a net worth of $9.4 million as recently as 2004, according to court documents.
Weller released a statement Thursday, saying: "It is our greatest hope that no further bloodshed occur in this matter."
"We sincerely hope that law enforcement is successful in bringing this matter to a peaceful conclusion," the judge said.
If he thinks his wife was trying to clean his clock, wait 'til the Mexicans in uniforms are through with him.
When will rich criminals learn?
Thanks!
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. ..."
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. ..."
Musta won the trip on the Price is Right. That's where they always sent people.