Reports: 20-Year-Old Female Police Chief In Mexico Flees To US

Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old who was named police chief of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in Mexico in October, has sought asylum in the U.S. after reportedly receiving death threats, according to Mexican media reports.

The reports state she may have crossed near or around Fort Hancock in Hudspeth County, Texas.

The criminology student was named police chief “since she was the only person to accept the position”, the mayor’s office of the town of some 10,000 people near the US border told local media in Mexico.

Valles is studying criminology in Mexico’s most violent city of Ciudad Juarez, some 60km west of Guadalupe.