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BORN: Aug. 21, 1957, San Francisco EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, B.A. 1979; UCLA, J.D., 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Christina Apffel; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; municipal-court judge, deputy D.A. POLITICAL CAREER: Glendale Municipal Court judge, 1990-94; California Assembly, 1994- ADDRESS: 3525 N. Verdugo Road, Glendale...
...discovery of the recordings. But after a personal appeal by U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, his Mexican counterpart Sergio Garcia Ramirez handed over copies of some tapes to DEA investigators, who have sought to identify the recorded voices. One of them, they say, matches that of Rene Martin Verdugo Urquidez, a Caro Quintero crony who is currently awaiting trial on drug charges in San Diego. He was among the nine indicted last week...
Besides accused Trafficker Verdugo Urquidez, two more of those indicted last week are already in U.S. custody for other offenses, and so will stand trial in American courts for their alleged roles in Camarena's murder. Of the remaining six, two are at large, probably in Mexico, and four are in Mexican custody. But under the extradition treaty between Mexico and the U.S., neither side is required to surrender its nationals to the other, and few observers expect Mexico to do so voluntarily. Most U.S. officials would be satisfied if Camarena's death were avenged by displays of rigorous prosecution...
Frustrated U.S. drug busters may have decided to go outside diplomatic channels to apprehend one reputed marijuana smuggler, Rene Martin Verdugo, who is suspected of being involved in the DEA agent's killing. Verdugo, widely known as La Rana (the Frog), was walking the streets of tiny San Felipe, Mexico, on Jan. 24 when six masked men pounced on him and whisked him into an unmarked car. They drove their blindfolded captive north to an obscure stretch of the Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., where they handed him through a hole in the fence to U.S. marshals...
...Emilio Madero, candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), came in second with 14% of the vote, a result that had also been expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party. The one real...