A former Guatemalan police chief living in California was arrested Friday on a charge of visa fraud after authorities said he failed to disclose he had been charged with killing two political activists in his home country. Catalino Esteban Valiente Alonzo, 77, was arrested Friday in Los Angeles after being indicted by a federal grand jury earlier in the week, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Prosecutors said Valiente was charged in 1987 with killing two activists in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second-largest city and where Valiente was chief of the National Police. If convicted of visa fraud, Valiente would face up to 10 years in prison. Valiente's arrest comes as U.S. immigration authorities have been targeting various former members of the Guatemalan army in recent years.

Source: ABC News February 09, 2018 22:58 UTC