Francisco Alberto Cedeño Amparo, 46, is a convicted murderer who escaped custody from Puerto Rico, United States. He will be extradited from the Dominican Republic, the U.S. Marshals Service announced on September 24, 2025.
Francisco Cedeño Amparo
On November 29, 2008, Cedeño Amparo burglarized a residence on Cárdenas Street in Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He entered entered through the air conditioning unit of the residence.
Once inside, Cedeño Amparo tried to strangle a woman then repeatedly stabbed Marcos R. Cantres Ruiz. The woman’s name was not released.
Ruiz suffered from multiple stab wounds. He did not survive.
After killing Ruiz, Cedeño Amparo fled Puerto Rico and hid in the Dominican Republic. On December 12, 2008, Cedeño Amparo was charged with the murder of Ruiz.
In January 2013, agents of the Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control arrested Cedeño Amparo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In February 2013, he was extradited to Puerto Rico and booked into the 705 Prison in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
On June 14, 2014, Cedeño Amparo and his fellow inmate Carlos “Pancho” Torres Cortés, then 22, were alone with custody officer Víctor Vázquez Rodríguez, in a Ford Econoline 350 van. The officer was driving the vehicle and transporting the inmates from the 705 Prison in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to the medical area.
The two inmates broke the grille separating them from Rodriguez, attacked the officer and escaped. The inmates abandoned the van in Jardines de Caparra, Bayamón and left their inmate clothing there.
On July 3, 2014, Superior Court Judge Harry Massanet Pastrana of the San Juan District Court sentenced Cedeño Amparo in absentia to 114 years in prison on charges of escape, first-degree murder, attempted murder and a weapons law violation. A warrant was issued for Cedeño Amparo’s arrest.
While on the run, Cedeño Amparo was found guilty of the charges filed against him and was sentenced to 114 years in prison. In 2016, the Violent Offenders Task Force of the U.S. Marshals in Puerto Rico assumed responsibility for the case.
In collaboration with the U.S. Marshals, authorities in the Dominican Republic located and apprehended Cedeño Amparo. On September 5, 2025, Judges Francisco Antonio Jerez Mena, Fran Euclides Soto Sánchez and María Garabito Ramírez of the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court of Justice authorized the extradition of Cedeño Amparo.
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