Fugitives

A man jumped to his death from the 14th floor of a Disneyland Hotel tower Friday while talking to a business associate, according to Anaheim Police Sgt. Rick Martinez. Police did not release the man's name but described him as a California resident in his 40s. The man was in town on business and was sharing the room with another man, Martinez said. About 11 a.m., he made a statement that led his associate to believe he was going to take his life, Martinez said. The man jumped from the hotel's south tower, on the side facing Katella Avenue, Martinez said.

A fugitive accused of shooting a man to death outside a Stanton bar in 2005 and televised on "America's Most Wanted" was arrested in Phoenix and returned to Orange County, where he was charged with murder Thursday, authorities said. Cuong Viet Nguyen, 27, formerly of Garden Grove, faces one felony county of murder and one felony count of attempted murder in addition to enhancements related to the discharge of a firearm causing death and great bodily injury.

Authorities searched Friday for a hospital technician who fled an Orange County courthouse just as he was about to be found guilty of sexually assaulting six women in a maternity ward, at least the second time this year someone about to be convicted or freshly convicted has bolted from a county court. Dante Arnaud, 41, of Santa Ana, who was free on $250,000 bail, had been ordered to stay in the courthouse Thursday as the three-day trial ended and jurors began their deliberations. The jury convicted him of conducting an illegal medical exam and assaulting the women, said district attorney's spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder.

A California mother arrested 32 years after she fled a Detroit-area prison was charged with escape. Susan LeFevre, 53, is serving at least 5 1/2 years of her remaining sentence for selling heroin. If convicted of escape, she could face up to five more years in prison. She was arrested outside her San Diego home in April.

He grew a bushy white beard and called himself Doctor David. He peddled meditation and alternative healing, sold amulets on a website and made the rounds on the lecture circuit. Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader regarded as one of the world's most notorious fugitive war-crimes suspects, built a life on the lam that was public, if disguised, and seemingly unfettered by fears of detection.

Alleged drug kingpin Ever Villafane Martinez, a Colombian believed to be the main cocaine supplier to an offshoot of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in Mexico City, federal police said Friday. One of the hemisphere's most wanted fugitives, Villafane Martinez has been on the lam since 2001, when he escaped from a maximum-security lockup in Colombia while awaiting extradition to the United States on narcotics charges.

A former Colombian drug kingpin who had plastic surgery to conceal his identity and lived luxuriously in Brazil before being arrested here last year was extradited Friday to the United States, Brazilian and U.S. authorities said. Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who had been imprisoned for money laundering in Brazil, was handed over to U.S. agents in the Amazonian city of Manaus and flown to New York, the Brazilian Justice Ministry said.

The last time Eddie Perez Romero was seen in public, Aug. 7, he vandalized two upscale hotel rooms in Beijing as part of what the longtime pastor of a La Puente church described as a protest against China's human rights abuses. Then Romero is believed to have gone into hiding in a rural area outside Beijing -- a self-imposed exile that the decorated Vietnam War veteran plans to end Sunday by turning himself in to Chinese authorities after the Olympic flame is extinguished.

A man who gunned down two people including a U.S. Forest Service officer was wanted for failing to show up for an August meeting with his probation officer. The gunman, Shawn M. Roe, 36, was killed in a shootout with authorities. The probation officer had requested an arrest warrant for Roe, but Mason County Superior Court had not issued one, the Seattle Times reported. Authorities are investigating the shooting of Officer Kristine Fairbanks, 51, and Richard Ziegler, 59, a retired California corrections employee.

Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents who fled the country while under investigation for alleged immigrant smuggling have been arrested in Tijuana after a two-year manhunt, federal authorities announced Monday. The suspects, brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal, were being investigated on suspicion of smuggling illegal immigrants in their government vehicles when they abruptly resigned and disappeared in June 2006.