RENO, Nev.: Federal agents have arrested a northern Nevada homicide suspect in south-central Mexico.
Washoe County sheriffs deputies identified 19-year-old Giovanni Gonzales-Mariscal as the prime suspect in the killing of 20-year-old Robert Decoite Jr. of Sparks about two months after Decoite was fatally shot at a popular, suburban park in Spanish Springs on Dec. 2, 2019.
Sheriff Darin Balaam announced Tuesday that cooperation between local, federal and international authorities resulted in the recent arrest of Gonzales-Mariscal in Jalisco, Mexico.
He was returned to California last week and remains in federal custody awaiting extradition to Reno to face a charge of open murder in the case.
Balaam says he requested the assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service in locating the suspect in January when the victims family…