CIA/Mafia hitman (now turned pastor) Jimmy Hughes arrested while boarding a flight to Honduras
October 5, 2009 by supermario
Filed under US News
AP
California authorities believe an unsolved 1981 triple murder at the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians was a hit job orchestrated by a tribal casino director, financial adviser and others to cover up illegal activity, and state officials are seeking to have the main suspect extradited to California.
James “Jimmy” Hughes, the founder of a Miami-based Christian ministry, was arrested Saturday at Miami International Airport on a fugitive warrant and was being held in Miami, where he is fighting extradition to California.
Hughes, 52, faces three counts of murder in the execution-style shootings of Cabazon tribal official Alfred Alvarez and his friends Patricia Castro and Ralph Boger and one count of conspiracy to commit a crime, according to a felony complaint for extradition filed Thursday.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Hughes had retained an attorney. His ministry spokeswoman and his wife did not reply to e-mails sent late Thursday.
The complaint alleges that Hughes conspired with non-Indian tribal financial consultant John Philip Nichols, Nichols’ son John Paul Nichols, and others in the days immediately before the murders to “prevent Fred Alvarez from exposing illegal activities of John Philip Nichols, occurring at the Cabazon Indian Reservation.”
The reservation is located near Indio, in a rural area of Riverside County about 130 miles southeast of Los Angeles. A message left at the tribal administration offices was not immediately returned.
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