Mexico City ? An alleged kidnapper featured on “America’s Most Wanted” turned himself in to U.S. authorities in Mexico and was deported to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Friday.

Ivan Villa, who is wanted on a felony kidnapping warrant for allegedly abducting his 16-month-old stepson, Justin, in New Mexico last year, went to U.S. officials in the city of Guadalajara Thursday, Ambassador Tony Garza said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s office said she did not yet have any information on the case.

U.S. authorities also want to question Villa, a U.S. citizen, about the death of his wife, Kristi Black. But they have not called him a suspect.

In May 2005, the 19-year-old Black was found strangled in the apartment shared by the couple in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Villa, who was 22 at the time, disappeared with his stepson leading to a frantic search for the toddler.