Tuesday, January 26, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
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tere arrested at the Mexican border
Korbiifi charged with the stabbing death
f |third youth.
■acy Sigler, 17, was killed during
itttheft of his 1988 Suzuki Samu-
uthorities said.
$igler’s body was found Saturday
^southeast Travis County field,
eld in the case are Hector Soliz,
nd Reyes Mendieta, 18, said De-
ve Jerry Wiggins of the Travis
nty sheriffs office. He said they
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were being held in Travis County
Jail Monday without bond on the
capital murder charge.
Homicide detective Gary Cutler
said authorities believe the suspects
headed south toward Mexico and
drove by mistake to a truck im
poundment area at the border.
“There was some luck involved,
no doubt,” Cutler said of the arrests.
“They drove to the wrong spot. It’s a
whole different ballgame if they get
over to Mexico.”
Mendieta and Soliz were picked
up at the International Bridge in La-
Saturday rhorping in Sigl-
heel drive vehicle several
redo on
er’s 4-wheel
hours after Sigler was reported miss
ing, police said.
The teen-agers were returned to
Travis County early , Sunday morn
ing, where they also were charged
with felony theft by appropriation in
connection with the taking of Sigler’s
vehicle, authorities said.
An autopsy indicated Sigler died
of seven stab wounds inflicted with a
knife at least seven inches long, Dr.
Robert Bayardo, Travis County
medical examiner, said.
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