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slaying of a McAllen physician.
Gilberto Salinas, 28, a federal fugitive since 1990, is sought for questioning in the slaying of McAllen physician
Francisco Jusino.
Authorities said Salinas, also known as Gilberto Doria, is believed to be the father of a baby boy Jusino delivered
Sept. 11. The child's mother died three days after the birth.
Police also said they are investigating alleged threats made against Jusino by the woman's family.
Salinas' family declined to comment on the murder investigation, but the family's attorney, Tony Canales of Corpus
Christi, said: "He is not involved in this case."
In Donna, a town of 13,000 people located 12 miles east of McAllen, a street and elementary school carries the family
surname in honor of Salinas' brother, Navy Capt. Daniel Salinas II. His father, Alfonso Salinas, known around town as
"The Lightning Bolt" in Spanish, was a popular elections judge.
"(Gilberto Salinas) was unassuming," said Joe Perez, a local barber who knows the family. "He wasn't like his father.
His father was very charismatic."
Gilberto Salinas started as a police patrolman in Donna in 1979, then moved to the police force in nearby Weslaco the
following hear.
Weslaco police records said he was fired in December 1982 after he was investigated for alleged loan fraud,
questionable firearms sales and an alleged attempt to sell drugs to a Donna police officer.
In 1983, he pleaded guilty in Kleberg County to smuggling marijuana and received three years' probation.
In 1988, Salinas pleaded guilty to another marijuana charge in Corsicana. Initially, Salinas received 10 years in
prison,
but a judge later reduced his sentence to 10 years' probation.
Since October 1990, Salinas has been in violation of his probation, officials said.
"We still have a warrant for his arrest," Patrick Batchelor, Navarro County district attorney in Corsicana, told The
Monitor of McAllen. "We just figured he was in Mexico."
That arrest stemmed from a sting involving a Corsicana family that was hauling marijuana from the Rio Grande Valley
to Michigan. At the time of his arrest, Salinas was delivering 1,500 pounds of marijuana, authorities said.
Behind the facade of a middle-class home, the Corsicana connection of the Valley's intricate drug scheme netted
millions of dollars, according to Navarro County officials. Investigators found $1 million buried under a dog house and
$70,000 in change buried under a flower bed.
"It was just a lot of dope,"Batchelor said.
Gilberto Salinas is believed to still be hiding out in Mexico, although many Donna residents say they see him
occasionally in town. McAllen police recently questioned a family member about the custody of the baby delivered by
Jusino. Police refused to reveal who they questioned.
Police also have questioned Hidalgo County Judge J. Edgar Ruiz about his role in the child's custody. Ruiz told police
a relative of the child contacted him, asking for help in the custody proceedings.
Ruiz, who once served as Donna's city manager, told The Monitor that he had met Gilberto Salinas' father but did not
know the fugitive.
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