Murder Suspect Extradited from Arizona to El Salvador

PHOENIX (AP) - A man suspected of aggravated homicide in his home country of El Salvador has been extradited by U.S. immigration authorities.

Federal immigration agents accompanied 33-year-old Jose Dolores Sanchez-Rivera on Wednesday's flight to El Salvador and handed him over to that country's law enforcement officials.

Sanchez-Rivera was arrested at a Phoenix home last May after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operations Team received a tip from the Salvadoran Consul in Nogales, Mexico.

ICE officials say Sanchez-Rivera entered the U.S. illegally in 2005 and was arrested twice in 2006 on charges relating to driving under the influence and driving without a license. However, he was not deported because ICE didn't exist until 2007.