On this date, July 9, in 2000, FBI most wanted fugitive Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza was arrested for the murder of an undercover federal agent six years earlier in Arizona.

Vasquez-Mendoza was the head of a gang that owned several Mexican methamphetamine labs and smuggled the drug into the United States. In 1994, he hatched a plan to kill and rob undercover Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Richard E. Fass of $160,000 used to buy methamphetamine.