SAN BERNARDINO -(INT) - County sheriff’s investigators Monday announced an arrest in a 1992 murder.

Detectives travelled to the Mexico border and arrested Alfonso Rodriguez Juarez for murder.

Juarez, 45, of Mexico, had previously been identified as a suspect in the murder of Fidelmar Meza Garcia.

Detectives received information from Juarez’s attorney that he would surrender to them at the Mexico border. Juarez was taken into custody, transported and booked into the West Valley Detention Center.

On January 12, 1992, a man was found shot to death on the side of Newberry Springs Road, two and a half miles east of Old National Trails Highway in Newberry Springs, California.

Detectives positively identified the victim as 25 year old, Fidel Meza Garcia from Arvin, California.

For several years, Garcia lived in the United States for 9 months and Mexico for three. Garcia worked in the fruit fields in Arvin, California to support his wife and child in Mexico.

On January 11, 1992, witnesses observed two armed men kidnap Garcia from his residence in Arvin, California. The following morning, Garcia was found shot to death in San Bernardino County, 170 miles south of his residence.

Story Date: April 1, 2015