`America's Most Wanted' Leads To Arrests

SEATTLE - Two Seattle-area fugitives were arrested in California last week after their pictures were broadcast on the television program, "America's Most Wanted."

Aaron Borrero, 22, who has been charged in King County Superior Court with kidnapping and assault, was arrested Friday in Visalia, Calif., along with a woman, Elizabeth Hernandez, who is wanted by local authorities in a separate case.

Hernandez, 18, has been charged with shooting her former boyfriend, Christopher Garza, four times in the head March 6 in Seattle. Garza survived, but was blinded in one eye.

Kent Police said Borrero and an accomplice hogtied Leslie Lemieux in Kent March 19, drove him to Eastern Washington and threw him into the Yakima River. Lemieux drifted downstream into shallow water where he latched onto a branch and managed to free himself.

Lemieux was kidnapped during a "dope rip-off," police said. Two other suspects already are in custody in connection with the case, Kent Police said.

The pictures of Hernandez and Borrero were broadcast on the TV program April 26. Someone who knew them in California saw the program and called police after realizing how dangerous they were, according to Kent Police.

Producers of "America's Most Wanted" say the program now has led to the arrest of 464 fugitives.