A Los Angeles federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday regarding a formal extradition request from the Mexican government for a Downey man who is being held in connection with serial murders targeting Tijuana strip-club workers.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen L. Stevenson previously ordered Bryant Rivera jailed without bond while extradition proceedings take place in downtown Los Angeles.
Rivera, 30, was arrested in July at the request of Mexico on a femicide charge, authorities said. Femicide has been used to describe the current spate of violence against women in Mexico.
Rivera is accused of murdering at least one sex worker in Tijuana. Mexico may add additional charges when prosecutors submit further extradition papers, according to a criminal complaint.
Rivera allegedly beat and strangled Ángela Acosta Flores to death on Jan. 24, 2022, in a room at Hotel Cascadas, next to the Hong Kong Gentlemen's Club in Zona Norte, a red light district in Tijuana, the complaint says.
Late last year, Baja California Attorney General Iván Carpio Sánchez described the then-unidentified killer of Flores and at least two other Tijuana sex workers as displaying "violent and psychopathic behavior" comparable to serial murderer Ted Bundy.
