Nevada fugitive caught in Mexico 27 ​​years after escaping

By Tim Fitzsimons - NBC

He escaped from a Nevada prison 27 years ago and this week was extradited back to that state after being captured by authorities in Nayarit, Mexico, according to the US Marshals Service.

The federal agency announced Thursday that Samuel Gallardo, who was found guilty of driving under the influence (DUI) on the wrong side of a highway in 1992 and sentenced to 40 years in prison, for causing the death of the driver of the vehicle that struck. head on.

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Gallardo, 52,

had been a fugitive since escaping from the Nevada Department of Corrections in 1994, after serving less than a year of his sentence,

authorities said.

Samuel Gallardo was arrested in Mexico at age 52.

via Nevada Department of Corrections

In 1992, when the event occurred, Gallardo was 24 years old.

He was intoxicated and entered an interstate highway in the opposite direction and collided head-on with another car, records show.

It was found in Nayarit, Mexico, on the Pacific coast.

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Taking into account that decades had passed since his escape,

"he was comfortable and made some mistakes that allowed us to locate him,"

Michael Desh, an employee of the Marshals Service in Nevada, told the AP.

Gallardo will finish the remainder of his sentence at the Nevada Department of Corrections. 

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