Mexican drug kingpin hitman caught at Tocumen airport

Promoting Panama as a tourist or retirement destination sometimes attracts visitors that you might not want sitting at the next table in your favorite restaurant.

Wanted Mexican hitman Fernando Álvarez Sánchez, a high ranking  member of the  drug organization La Familia Michoacana, would have been  a surprise participant  in a “Guess whose coming to dinner” quiz.

He was was arrested at Tocumen International Airport on March 3, traveling not on business, but  for a vacation.

He and his wife were were turned over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

They were caught in the transit zone of the air terminal and authorities initially thought they were headed to another country, but later dsiscoveredmtheir final destination was Panama.. Now not so. They will soon be vacationing in a U.S. prison, 

Sánchez was on the DEA most wanted list and was being hunted for a number of crimes, including the  murder of several police officers and drug trafficking.