A King City woman was deported from Mexico back to California on Thursday after Mexican police found and captured her in Tijuana. Angela Zuniga, 22, had been on the run since May 2013 and wanted on homicide charges for her role in the brutal killing of a teenager in Salinas.The victim, 14-year-old Ricardo Ruiz, was walking home with friends from Salinas High School when he was approached by two young women. The women asked Ruiz if he was in a gang, and when Ruiz claimed a gang, the women stabbed him in the neck. Ruiz was removed from life support at Natividad Medical Center five days later, and Salinas High provided grief counselors for the many students who knew Ruiz. Zuniga fled to Mexico immediately after the stabbing because she believed that by fleeing to Mexico she would be "untouchable," the US. Marshals' Office said.Zuniga was placed on Northern California's Most Wanted list. On July 30, Mexican authorities apprehended Zuniga in Tijuana, Mexico. She was deported from Mexico and turned over to U.S. Marshals custody at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and booked into Las Colinas Detention Center, where she awaits extradition back to Monterey County to stand trial."This is example of how close cooperation between local, state, federal and foreign Law Enforcement are apprehending fugitive gang members who think they can operate with impunity in the Salinas community," U.S. Marshal Donald O’Keefe said.

A King City woman was deported from Mexico back to California on Thursday after Mexican police found and captured her in Tijuana.

Angela Zuniga, 22, had been on the run since May 2013 and wanted on homicide charges for her role in the brutal killing of a teenager in Salinas.

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The victim, 14-year-old Ricardo Ruiz, was walking home with friends from Salinas High School when he was approached by two young women. The women asked Ruiz if he was in a gang, and when Ruiz claimed a gang, the women stabbed him in the neck.

Ruiz was removed from life support at Natividad Medical Center five days later, and Salinas High provided grief counselors for the many students who knew Ruiz.

Zuniga fled to Mexico immediately after the stabbing because she believed that by fleeing to Mexico she would be "untouchable," the US. Marshals' Office said.



Zuniga was placed on Northern California's Most Wanted list.

On July 30, Mexican authorities apprehended Zuniga in Tijuana, Mexico. She was deported from Mexico and turned over to U.S. Marshals custody at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and booked into Las Colinas Detention Center, where she awaits extradition back to Monterey County to stand trial.



"This is example of how close cooperation between local, state, federal and foreign Law Enforcement are apprehending fugitive gang members who think they can operate with impunity in the Salinas community," U.S. Marshal Donald O’Keefe said.