Fugitive on U.S. Marshals' most-wanted list captured in Mexico

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A fugitive on the U.S. Marshals Service's most-wanted list was captured in Cancun after nearly 24 years on the run.

Vincent Legrend Walters, 45, was wanted for the 1988 kidnapping and murder of a woman named Christina Reyes in San Diego. The killing allegedly stemmed from a drug deal gone bad..............

The U.S. Marshals said Walters had "boasted to people that he was a fugitive from San Diego and wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service."

Mexican authorities worked with the U.S. Marshals Service to locate and arrest Walters, who was taken into custody Friday morning.

He will be transported to Mexico City to face extradition to San Diego, where he will face murder and drug charges. A federal grand jury indicted Walters in 1989 on charges of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, carrying firearms during drug trafficking and possession of unregistered firearms and explosives.