WANTED FUGITIVE RAFAEL VEGA SURRENDERS TO AUTHORITIES EARLY SATURDAY MORNING
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Direct: (915) 538-2119
Pager: (915) 533-0733 (#5370)
EMAIL: jtovar@epcounty.com
Website: EPCSO.ORG
Release Date / Time: Saturday, February 20, 2010 2:30 PM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office
EVENT: Fugitive Vega Captured (MANHUNT CAPTURE No. 43)
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: 911 N. Raynor El Paso, TX 79903
DATE / TIME: Saturday, February 20, 2010
RESULT: Sought Fugitive Arrested
EL PASO COUNTY, TX- Early this morning 02/20, Wanted Fugitive RAFAEL 
VEGA surrendered to EPPD Officers at Central Regional Command. VEGA was taken into custody without incident & was turned over to Sheriff’s Officials a short time later. VEGA was booked at the El Paso County Detention Facility for the offense of AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING under a $250,000 BOND.
VEGA was wanted for his part in an Aggravated Kidnapping which occurred in Horizon City, TX in September 2009.
BACKGROUND:
On September 3, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Detectives from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Crimes Against Person Section were summoned by the Horizon Police Department to 14327 Desert Sunset, Horizon City, in El Paso County, Texas, regarding an Aggravated Kidnapping. The victim, identified as Sergio Saucedo DOB/02-28-1979, was forcibly taken from his residence at gun point. Mr. Saucedo was later found murdered in Juarez, Mexico.
On November 6 2009 a warrant was obtained for Ricardo Morales for Aggravated Kidnapping with a 1.5 million dollar bond. He is still outstanding and investigator’s continue to look for him. It is believed Morales orchestrated the Kidnapping.
On Tuesday February 16th a warrant for Aggravated Kidnapping was obtained for Cesar
Obregon. Yesterday Omar Obregon was spotted by a Border Patrol Agent with his brother Cesar Obregon attempting to enter a home illegally. Both brothers were detained by Border Patrol it was then discovered that our office had an outstanding warrant for Cesar Obregon for the Aggravated Kidnapping of Sergio Saucedo, and that we believed Cesar’s Brother Omar was also involved.
Border Patrol subsequently brought both brothers to the Sheriff Department HQs where further investigation led to the arrests of Omar Obregon and Cesar Obregon. Both Obregon brothers were booked into the El Paso County Jail last night on Aggravated Kidnapping charges. The Sheriff’s Office has also obtained an arrest warrant for a 4th man involved in the Aggravated Kidnapping who was identified as Rafael Vega. Sheriff’s Detectives are hot on his trail actively looking for him. It is believed the Obregon brothers along with Rafael Vega were the persons who committed the kidnapping.
RICARDO PUENTES MORALES (25)
AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING- $1,500,000 BOND |
OMAR OBREGON (21)
| AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING- $250,000 BOND |
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CESAR OBREGON (21)
| AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING- $250,000 BOND |
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RAFAEL VEGA(26)
AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING: $250,000 Bond
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The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001 was the first Sheriff’s Office in the State of Texas to be Internationally Accredited from CALEA and is now the recipient of the First CALEA Tri-Arc award in Texas (4th in the Nation) to have accreditations in: Law Enforcement, Communications, Training Academy.