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May 23, 2007

http://losangeles.fbi.gov/pressrel/2007/la052307.htm

FUGITIVE WANTED FOR COLD DOUBLE HOMICIDE
CASE ARRESTED IN MEXICO, RETURNED TO THE U.S. TODAY

A man arrested in Mexico last month for his role in a seventeen-year old double homicide in Los Angeles was turned over to members of the FBI’s Fugitive Task Force this afternoon, announced J. Stephen Tidwell, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. Reginald Milon Fields, 47, originally from Los Angeles, was flown to LAX from Mexico City, under the escort of FBI agents assigned to the FBI’s Legal Attache stationed in Mexico.

On 9/24/1990, Fields and an unknown accomplice allegedly entered a Los Angeles residence and confronted two individuals, Jason Combs and Leon Jefferson. Fields allegedly executed Combs, who was 29 at the time, with eight close range shots, and shot Jefferson in the shoulder. Jefferson, who was 64 at the time, bled to death. Fields was on parole for a narcotics violation at the time of the murders.

Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department believe that Fields fled to the Guadalajara, Mexico, region immediately after the alleged crimes. Fields was charged with homicide but had remained a fugitive for many years. In recent years, detectives developed information indicating that Fields was still residing in Mexico.

On October 27, 2004, the FBI obtained a federal warrant after Fields was charged with Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. In recent months, Fields was located in Bella Vista, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, where he was residing with his wife and multiple children and using the name Phillip Tatum. The United States requested assistance from officers with the Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI, Mexican Federal Police) who took Fields into custody on 4/5/07. Fields, a United States citizen, was formally extradited in Mexico City federal court prior to his return to the United States today.

The FBI’s Fugitive Task Force in Los Angeles consists of agents and officers with the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department and the California State Department of Parole, Division of Adult Parole Operations.

It is anticipated that the government will dismiss the federal UFAP charge and that Fields will remain in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department to face prosecution.