A woman wanted by officials in Mexico on charges related to a 2009 daycare fire in Sonora in which 51 children were killed has been deported, authorities say.
Sandra Lucia Tellez-Nieves, 51, who had been living in Tucson, was deported last week at the Nogales border crossing, the U.S. Marshals Service in Tucson said in a news release.
In June 2009, Tellez-Nieves was co-owner of the ABC Daycare located in Hermosillo, Sonora, when a fire swept across the building, trapping 150 children inside, ultimately killing 51 of them.
An indictment by federal authorities in Mexico was dismissed. But it was reissued in March 2022, the release said.
She was arrested without incident in January in a traffic stop on West Miracle Mile. She was deported to Mexico from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Eloy.
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Marshals also arrested co-defendant Robert Copado-Gutierrez in March on charges related to the blaze.
