DDN – U.S. Marshals have discovered and apprehended the suspect in a fatal Illinois hit-and-run in a Texas town south of Dallas.

Juan Jahaziel Saenz-Suarez, a 27-year-old Mexican national living in Urbana, Illinois, is accused of hitting Chloe Polzin, 21, and Katherine Abraham, 20, in a crash on Jan. 19 just before 2 a.m.

Authorities discovered through investigative leads that Saenz-Suarez owned the red Mitsubishi Outlander that caused the deadly crash, and they acquired a warrant for his arrest on Jan. 20, according to an Urbana police press statement issued Wednesday.

The US Marshals Service (USMS) “located Saenz-Suarez in Milford, Texas, about an hour south of Dallas,” where he “was riding an El Expreso bus destined for Matamoros, Mexico,” according to authorities.

“A subsequent request for assistance was sent to the USMS [Northern District of Texas (N/TX) North Texas Fugitive Task Force],” according to a separate press release.

“Deputy United States Marshals (DUSM) and USMS Task Force Officers (TFO) took Saenz-Suarez safely into custody at approximately 0915 hours CST for further transportation to the Dallas County Jail, Texas, to await extradition.”

According to the USMS, Saenz-Suarez rear-ended the two victims as they were stopped at a red light. The crash damaged several more passengers.

The USMS observed that Saenz-Suarez had previously been deported from the United States once. “This type of partnership is essential to local law enforcement, and I would like to thank the women and men of the Urbana Police Department and the US Marshals Service for their efforts in capturing Saenz-Suarez,” Urbana Police Chief Larry D. Boone said in a statement on Wednesday.