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Ramon Antonio Vargas

US fugitive who joined Mexican police is extradited to Ohio over 2004 murder

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The Butler county sheriff's office in Hamilton, Ohio. Photograph: Google Maps

A man whose nickname is the Spanish word for “devil” shot a bar patron to death near Cincinnati, Ohio, nearly two decades ago – then fled to Mexico to become a police officer, investigators recently alleged.

Antonio “El Diablo” Riano, 72, was ultimately captured in the south-western Mexican town of Zapotitlán Palmas and was returned to the US on 1 August to face charges of murder.

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