Authorities nab Pasadena kidnapping suspect in Mexico: 'We worked tirelessly through the night to negotiate directly with him for a safe surrender'

Authorities arrested a Houston-area man suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend on Wednesday, Houston-based media outlets reported.

Daniel Chacon has been implicated in the death of Maira Gutierrez after her body was found in an abandoned vehicle in southeast Houston. 

Houston CBS affiliate KHOU reported that Chacon was located at the border in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Per KHOU, authorities returned the suspect to the U.S., and he was in Harris County by Thursday evening.

"Our officers and the federal agencies worked tirelessly through the night to negotiate directly with him for a safe surrender at the Laredo Port of Entry," officials with the Pasadena Police Department (PPD) said, the station reported.

Houston ABC affiliate KTRK reported that the 30-year-old Chacon faces a kidnapping charge, with authorities alleging he threatened the 38-year-old Gutierrez with a firearm and forced her to leave with him from the Red Pines apartment complex in Pasadena on Monday.

KTRK reported that Gutierrez, a mother of four, was found dead inside her silver SUV that same evening.

Per the station, she and Chacon shared an infant daughter.

Authorities asserted that Chacon visited an uncle in Pasadena and confided in the elder that he thought he was “going to have to kill this girl” a day before the Gutierrez’s lifeless body was discovered, KTRK reported.

The suspect purportedly has a criminal history that goes back a decade.

KHOU reported that Gutierrez’s surviving family hopes a Harris County court denies Chacon bail.