Fugitive went to extremes to hide out in Mexico

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By M. Alex Johnson, NBC NewsFBIThe FBI's listing for Jose Luis Saenz after his capture last week in Mexico.An alleged drug cartel hit man on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list was living a relatively normal life when he was arrested last week in Mexico, the FBI said Monday.  Toni Guinyard, Jonathan Lloyd and Janet Kwak of NBC 4 of Los Angeles and R. Stickney of NBC 7 of San Diego contributed to this report. Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook.  The man, Jose Luis Saenz, who is 36 or 37 (the FBI listed four possible birthdates), went to great lengths to build that life, agents said Monday after his arraignment in Los Angeles in connection with four brutal murders in California from 1998 to 2008.

When he was taken into custody Thursday at his apartment in Guadalajara — partly as a result of a $100,000 reward, the FBI said — Saenz identified himself as "Giovanni Torres," just one of 21 aliases the FBI said he was known to have used.




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