US Customs and Border Protection officers arrest murder suspect trying to flee to El Salvador

An American execution fishy trying to fly to El Salvador has been taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers astatine Washington Dulles International Airport, officials say. 

Christofer Antonio Argueta Ramirez, 19, of Woodbridge, Va., had "purchased a one-way summons connected an El Salvador-bound formation that was departing from Dulles airdrome astir 1:30 a.m." earlier helium was arrested Sunday, according to the agency. 

"Officers encountered Argueta Ramirez at the departure gate, verified Argueta Ramirez’s identity, took him into custody, and escorted him backmost to CBP’s inspection station," it added successful a statement. "CBP officers turned Argueta Ramirez implicit to Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police officers." 

Argueta Ramirez is 1 of 2 suspects in the decease of Jose Guerrero, a 20-year-old who vanished in Virginia successful precocious 2022, Inside NoVa reported. 

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Christofer Antonio Argueta Ramirez was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers connected Sunday, Nov. 3, astatine Washington Dulles International Airport. (CBP)

Two days aft Guerrero’s disappearance, his household recovered his abandoned car successful Woodbridge with humor and signs of a conflict inside, the website cited constabulary arsenic saying astatine the time. 

Police accidental Guerrero and some suspects had arranged a cause woody connected Dec. 21 of that year, but an altercation ensued, and Guerrero was "stabbed aggregate times,’ according to Inside NoVa. 

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Christofer Antonio Argueta Ramirez was arrested astatine Washington Dulles International Airport connected Sunday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

His assemblage was past allegedly dumped successful Prince George’s County, wherever it was recovered successful January 2023, the website besides reported. 

Argueta Ramirez was taken into custody astatine a departure gross astatine Washington Dulles International Airport successful Virginia. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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"Customs and Border Protection officers brushwood each types of travelers arriving to and departing from the United States, including travelers wanted for allegedly committing earnestly heinous offenses," Marc E. Calixte, the CBP’s Area Port Director for the Area Port of Washington, D.C, said successful a connection pursuing Ramirez’s arrest. "CBP continues to enactment with our instrumentality enforcement partners to assistance seizure unsafe fugitives and to instrumentality them to look justice."