Maribel Martinez Garcia, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was at arrested Thursday at a home in North Houston, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston. She pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of murder in Birmingham in 2008.
Maribel Martinez Garcia was arrested Aug. 29, 2024, in Texas for illegal reentry into the U.S. She pleaded guilty to a Birmingham murder in 2008.Federal authorities in Texas have arrested a former Bessemer woman who was convicted of murder in Birmingham and has previously been deported from the U.S. four different times.
Authorities said it isn’t known when Martinez first illegally entered the U.S., but she was arrested on April 13, 2000, by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Houston. Martinez was arrested by Birmingham police on New Year’s Day 2007 on a charge of capital murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Francisco Ostiquin Cervantes, 32, of Pelham.Pelham police were led to the scene where Cervantes’ body was discovered and then notified Birmingham police.
The 7-year-old heard sounds that investigators believed were gunshots and then a male suspect came back to the car alone.
@River-State Birmingham Police
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