Criminal Alien of the Week Report: October 27th, 2025 – KXL

By David Olen Cross

The “Lars Larson Show: Criminal Alien of the Week Report” in the last week of October 2025 has for northwest regional and national radio listeners and website followers a report on a federal law enforcement identified foreign national illegal alien whose criminal case for murder and drug trafficking conspiracy is being adjudicated in a U.S. District Court in the state of California.

Some background information, on Monday, September 22, 2025 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California (USAOSDC) issued a press release titled “Mexican National Admits Murdering Couple and their Unborn Child During Drug Trafficking Conspiracy” who the subject of interest was identified as Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California; Case Number: 23CR1684-RBM):

Here are extended excerpts from USAOSDC’s September 22, 2025 press release on Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta:

“SAN DIEGO – Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta, an undocumented Mexican national living in Yakima, Washington, admitted in federal court today that he murdered a man and his six-months-pregnant wife while they were engaged in a drug trafficking conspiracy.

According to his plea agreement, Madrigal-Birrueta and coconspirators fatally shot 44-year-old Cesar Murillo multiple times in the back of the head and the torso on August 28, 2022, during an argument. The shooting took place at a remote ranch outside of Yakima. Madrigal-Birrueta’s co-conspirators then buried the victim’s body near the ranch at Madrigal’s direction.

On September 2, 2022, Madrigal-Birrueta persuaded Murillo’s wife, Maira Hernandez, 33, who was unaware of her husband’s death, to come to the ranch by claiming her husband was waiting for her there. She agreed, and the defendant picked up Hernandez in Yakima and drove her to the ranch.

According to admissions in his plea agreement, when the visibly-pregnant Hernandez arrived at the ranch, the defendant’s coconspirators shot her multiple times in the head. Madrigal-Birrueta and his coconspirators then buried Hernandez near the ranch. The child died in utero when Hernandez was shot, killed and buried.

Madrigal-Birrueta admitted the murders were committed while he was engaged in a drug trafficking conspiracy. The plea agreement said Madrigal-Birrueta’s coconspirators owed money to the couple for an unpaid drug debt.

Madrigal-Birrueta is scheduled to be sentenced on March 27, 2026.

The superseding indictment also charges Ricardo Orizaba-Zendejas with being an accessory after the fact to murder and a co-conspirator in Madrigal’s drug trafficking organization. Orizaba-Zendejas is set for trial beginning October 27, 2025

According to court filings, the investigation originated with the seizure of drugs from vehicles entering the United States through San Diego area ports of entry between August and October of 2021. By August of 2022, the investigation led agents to a group of individuals operating out of Yakima. Special Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) interviewed Murillo and Hernandez. Within days of those interviews, Murillo and Hernandez were murdered and their bodies buried at the Yakima ranch in the high desert. Court filings describe how these charges followed an exhaustive, years’ long investigation that employed geophysicists, ground penetrating radar, aircraft, laser imaging, chemical testing of the soil, numerous cadaver dogs, and other law enforcement techniques to search for the victims’ remains. HSI Special Agents successfully recovered the remains on September 13, 2023, aided by a Washington State Police Crime Scene Investigations team.

During the investigation agents seized methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, multiple firearms — including a machine gun — and body armor from Madrigal-Birrueta’s drug trafficking organization, to include the Yakima ranch.” – U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.

As courtesy and for informational purposes the “Criminal Alien of the Week Report” sent via e-mail on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 a copy of the USAOSDC press release on Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Public Affairs for the Northwest Region which encompasses the states of Alaska, Oregon and Washington, furthermore, ICE Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.

On the same day, September 23, 2025 ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Public Affairs issued a press release titled “ICE San Diego investigation leads to guilty plea in murders of Washington couple, unborn child” who the subject of interest was confessed murderer and drug trafficker conspirator Mexican national Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta.

Presentencing, on Monday, October 27, 2025 Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta (BOP Register Number: 52480-510), age 24, was in the custody of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at San Diego MCC located in San Diego, California.

Adding up some numbers, Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta is now one more than 25-thousand criminal aliens incarcerated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Lars, the last week of October 2025 and another “Criminal Alien of the Week Report” for Lars Larson Show KXL FM 101.1 northwest regional and national radio show listeners and website followers.

David Olen Cross (docfnc) is a reporter on foreign national crime. He is a more than decade long contributor to the “Lars Larson Show: Criminal Alien of the Week Report.” His past crime reporting can be found at http://docfnc.wordpress.com/.

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