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Fugitive LAPD officer wanted in homicide arrested in Mexico

By Amy R. Connolly
Henry Solis, 27, is a former LAPD officer. He was caught in Mexico and deported back to the U.S. on Tuesday May 26, 2012015 after a two-month man hunt. Photo courtesy Chihuahua Attorney General's office.
Henry Solis, 27, is a former LAPD officer. He was caught in Mexico and deported back to the U.S. on Tuesday May 26, 2012015 after a two-month man hunt. Photo courtesy Chihuahua Attorney General's office.

LOS ANGELES, May 27 (UPI) -- A former Los Angeles Police officer, wanted in connection to a California homicide, was nabbed in Mexico after an exhaustive two-month search, the Chihuahua attorney general said.

Henry Solis, an LAPD officer for less than a year, had been wanted since March in the shooting death of Salome Rodriguez, 23, after an alleged bar fight. Chihuahua state authorities said Solis, 27, resisted arrest but no shots were fired when he was taken into custody in Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. He was deported to the United States on Tuesday and is being held in federal custody.

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"He was waiting for his capture. He knew that sooner or later he was going to be caught," Pablo Ernesto Rocha, director of the Chihuahua State Police, told the El Paso Times.

State law enforcement, with the help of the FBI, had been searching for Solis after an arrest warrant was issued alleging he shot and killed Rodriguez in downtown Pomona, a city in Los Angeles county, while off-duty early March 13. In the days that followed, Solis was fired from his job.

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Solis, a highly decorated Marine, had been on the job for nine months before he got into some kind of dispute with Rodriguez, authorities said. Solis allegedly chased Rodriguez and shot him four times. Solis' father Victor Solis was also charged with lying to federal investigators in an attempt to conceal his son's whereabouts.

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