A man wanted for murder was taken into custody in La Porte County.
In the afternoon Wednesday, December 20, members of the Fugitive Apprehension Street Team (FAST) and the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force received information that Alberto Valle-Carranza, 54, wanted in connection with an Washington, D.C homicide December 19 had boarded a bus in Chicago and was traveling to Michigan City. With little time to spare, deputies quickly responded to intercept the bus.
Police located the bus and held it until additional units with further information arrived on scene. FAST sergeants boarded the bus, and positively identified and detained Valle-Carranza. He was transported to the La Porte County Jail where was held without bond for the offense of Second-Degree Murder while Armed.
Homicide detectives from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department followed up with their investigation last week at the La Porte County Sheriff’s Department.
Valle-Carranza will go through an extradition process and will eventually be returned to Washington D.C.
Suspects are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
