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After weeks of crushing uncertainty, the Danielle van Dam case lurched forward last week with the discovery of her corpse, following the arrest of a neighbor, David Westerfield, 50. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, kidnapping and possession of child pornography; the authorities say they have no other suspects. The investigation leading to his arrest involved the usual combination of legwork and luck. A police source told TIME that the San Diego cops had to learn a couple of major details--including the fact that volunteers had found Danielle's body 25 miles east of downtown...
...This is an arrest that no one had thought was possible," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration czar Asa Hutchinson exulted when he got word of the capture of Tijuana Cartel kingpin Benjamin Arellano-Felix. "No one has come close to the power, violence and dominance that family has had in the last decade and a half...
...arrest was made by a military unit vetted for honesty and supplied with training and intelligence by the U.S. The CIA has been supplying the Mexican special operations forces with intercepted communications of the drug traffickers and other timely data, but it was not immediately clear whether the intelligence that led to the house in Puebla came from the U.S. or had been developed by the Mexican authorities themselves...
...Hutchinson would say only that the lead was a product of good law enforcement by the Mexicans, and that "it was the government of Mexico that followed up on the lead and made the arrest." The arrest comes at the best possible moment for the often rocky relations between the neighboring nations. President Bush is due to visit his Mexican counterpart on March 20. Laying groundwork for that visit, Hutchinson went to Mexico two weeks ago to meet with Attorney General Macedo and other top officials. There, he says, he reemphasize that the Bush administration placed top priority...
STEVENS: Yes indeed. The Cambridge Police have said they’re happy to arrest us any time, provided my agent books it with them at least 24 hours in advance...