Acension "Chon" Gonzales-Pena (hereafter referred to as Gonzales) is currently in custody in the Limon Correctional Facility in Limon Colorado, on Colorado drug charges.

Gonzales, 44, is charged with two counts of first degree murder in Park County after he allegedly shot adn killed his wife, Yensena Gonzales Mancha Fierro and Yensena's brother, Manuel Alonzo Mancha Fierro, on July 23, 1996.  The murders occurred outside of Powell, Wyoming.

Immediately following the murders, Gonzales fled the area and his whereabouts remained unknown until his identity was confirmed by the Park County Sheriff's Office  on March 14, 2001.  In recent days, a Colorado Deputy Sheriff received a tip that Gonzales may be in custody in the Denver area on an unrelated drug charge and that Gonzales may be using a false identity after having altered his appearance, including his fingertips.

Adams County Deputy Sheriff Michelle Wiggins obtained from the Park county Sheriff's Office, identifying information on Gonzales, in an effort to determine whether Gonzales was in fact in custody in the Denver Area.  Deputy Wiggins contacted several law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities in the Denver area and provided each with information about Gonzales.

On March 9, 2001, after Deputy Wiggins conducted an exhaustive search for Gonzales, she learned that Gonzales was beleived to be in the Limon Correctional Facility.  Deputy Wiggins learned that Gonzales's fingertips had been altered and that he was using the name Benjamin Galvez Rendon.

On March 14, 2001, Undersheriff Dave Doyle and Investigator Tom Thompson traveled to Limon Colorado and confirmed the identity of Gonzales.  Gonzales was in the Limon Correctional Facility after being sentenced in 1998 to ten years in prison for drug trafficking.

The Park County Attorney's Office is working to extradite Gonzales to Park County on the two counts of first degree murder.  It is not known when Gonzales will be brought back to Park County.  The process could take several weeks.

Sheriff Bill Brewer said, "after working nearly five years to apprehend Gonzales, I am very pleased that we have finally located him and that he will soon be brought back to Park County to face these charges."