James “Jimmy” Hughes
The suspect the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has identified in the 1981 unsolved murders of three Coachella Valley residents told a judge Tuesday he plans to fight extradition to California, court officials said.
James “Jimmy” Hughes, 52, was arrested at the Miami International Airport on Saturday on a fugitive warrant related to three California murders, Miami-Dade law enforcement officials said Monday.
A self-described ex-mafia hit man, evangelist and president of Jimmy Hughes Ministries