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   A fugitive connected to four killings and considered one of the   
   Los Angeles Police Department’s most wanted criminals has been   
   caught, federal authorities announced.   
      
   Eduardo Rodriguez, 35, was captured by U.S. marshals on Thursday   
   in the 3500 block of Farnham Place in Riverside, where he had   
   been living under an assumed identity for five years. He has   
   been wanted by the LAPD since 2003.   
      
   Rodriguez was second in command of the Toonerville street gang   
   when he was indicted in 2003 on four counts of murder and two   
   counts of attempted murder. He worked under Timothy McGhee, who   
   has since been convicted of three murders but is believed to   
   have killed at least a dozen people.   
      
   Rodriguez was wanted in connection with the 2001 shooting death   
   of Margie Mendoza, 26, a mother of three who was gunned down in   
   Atwater Village while sitting in her boyfriend’s car.   
      
   Information on the deaths tied to the other three murder   
   indictments was not immediately released.   
      
   During his time on the lam, authorities say, Rodriguez had been   
   living under an assumed identity working as a carpenter in   
   Riverside. He had a fiancee, visited Las Vegas and ventured to   
   Griffith Observatory, all the while going unnoticed, said U.S.   
   Marshal's Service Deputy Laura Vega.   
      
   Rodriguez had twice been questioned by police in connection with   
   homicides but was released for insufficient evidence.   
      
   When he was finally indicted, he fled.   
      
   Los Angeles police lost Rodriguez’s trail when he was believed   
   to have fled to Mexico.   
      
   The case was reignited last year, when, according to Vega,   
   Glendale police asked Los Angeles detectives if they could try   
   and find Rodriguez because of their familiarity with Toonerville   
   gang members and their associates. The Toonerville gang claims   
   Glendale, northeast Los Angeles and Tujunga as it territory.   
      
   One of Glendale’s detectives, who was on light duty because of   
   an injury, found Rodriguez’s picture through his associates’   
   Facebook accounts, Vega said. When Rodriguez’s images showed up   
   on his fiancee’s Facebook account, they tracked him down to the   
   Riverside address and began monitoring the house.   
      
   On Thursday night, when Rodriguez left for work, authorities   
   closed in.   
      
   “You could see that moment when he knew what it was about and he   
   just gave up,” Vega said. “He saw the cars, he gets his hands   
   up…he still had his tattoos.”   
      
   Neither Rodriguez’s fiancee nor her family had any idea he was a   
   wanted man, Vega said.   
      
   “She seemed genuinely pretty shocked."   
      
   Follow the reporter on Twitter: @JosephSerna   
      
   Comments   
   Even if he doesn't get the needle, they should at least give him   
   an honorary Darwin.   
   DOWNINCULVER   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-most-wanted-   
   20141114-story.html   
      
          
      
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