A man who allegedly stuffed his wife into a car trunk leaving her for dead has been arrested at the U.S.-Mexican border in El Paso, Tex., the Denver Police Department said today.
Arturo Talamantes was arrested on Wednesday following an extensive search by Denver police and Texas and federal authorities, according to Lt. Matt Murray of the Denver Police Department.
According to Murray, investigators went to 810 S. Tejon St. on Oct. 31, 2009, on a report that Talamantes had attacked his wife.
Investigators said that the woman told them that her husband had beaten her, put her in the trunk of his car and left her for dead near First Avenue and Clay Street.
The Denver district attorney’s office charged Talamantes with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree kidnapping.
Talamantes was listed on the Denver Police Department’s 2010 50 Most Wanted List earlier this year.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
