Suspect in the 2014 abduction case of 43 Mexican college students is deported

A prime suspect in the disappearance of 43 college students has been deported to Mexico by U.S. authorities. Federal authorities said the man was caught trying to cross the border on Dec. 20 without proper documents. 

U.S. federal agents confirmed to the Associated Press Thursday that the man is Alejandro Tenescalco. Tenescalco was a police supervisor in the city of Iguala, where municipal police abducted the students from a rural teachers' college. 

Alejandro Encinas, Mexico's Interior Undersecretary and the government official leading the truth commission, has called Tenescalco "one of the main perpetrators" of the crime.