MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – The man charged in connection with the disappearance of a Mobile County mother and her two children was not using his real name when he was arrested, authorities said Tuesday.
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said the suspect’s name is Hector Gamaliel Argueta-Guerra — not Juan Carlos Argueta Guerra, the name he provided at the time of his arrest. Argueta-Guerra faces three counts of kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of Aurelia Choc-Cac and her two children, Niurika Zuleta Choc and Anthony Garcia, who were last seen near their home in Theodore.
“He’s clearly a much more dangerous individual than what we originally thought,” Burch said.
Criminal background revealed
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, authorities outlined what they described as Argueta-Guerra’s violent criminal history in El Salvador. Newly uncovered court documents show he was a suspect in an aggravated homicide in 2015. That same year, U.S. records show he was detained in Texas for being in the country illegally but was released approximately one month later…