1:15pm UPDATE: The tip that led to this morning's capture of 17-year-old Oden Gutierrez, who is wanted for the murder of an 83-year-old San Juan County man, did not come through a segment on "America's Most Wanted" Saturday night, according to KRQE News 13.

A few leads came in on Gutierrez, program producer Jenna Naranjo told News 13.

A segment on the same show, which airs locally at 8 p.m. Saturdays on KASA Fox 2, dealt with the case of Kurt Sohrbeck, who is wanted in connection with the shooting of a Lincoln County sheriff's sergeant during a traffic stop in Ruidoso Downs, Naranjo said.

Many of those leads came from Florida, Texas and California, KRQE reported.

So many leads came in, Naranjo told News 13, that Sohrbeck's case will be shown again on "America's Most Wanted" next Saturday.

Oden Gutierrez, the 17-year-old who escaped the San Juan County Juvenile Detention Center on March 11, was captured about 1:30 this morning in the 10800 block of Fairbanks Road NE in Albuquerque, KOB-TV is reporting.

Gutierrez was accused of fatally shooting 83-year-old Thomas Powell in San Juan County last November and stealing his car, KOB-TV reported.

About four weeks before Powell's death, Gutierrez had escaped from the Albuquerque Boys' Reintegration Center, according to Eyewitness News 4.

He was captured in December in Las Vegas, Nev., by San Juan County deputies and U.S. marshals, and was being held at the juvenile jail when he scaled a fence earlier this month after guards were distracted by a fight, KOB-TV said.

Although Gutierrez's profile has been on the Web site of "America's Most Wanted" for several days, the popular Fox show highlighted the escaped teen in a segment titled "15 Seconds of Shame" on Saturday night, the Farmington Daily Times reported this weekend.

"We're going to flash his face on TV for 15 seconds. A lot of times, that's all it takes," associate producer Jenna Naranjo, told the Daily Times befor the show aired. "I can't tell you how many people we've caught just from that segment alone."

It is unknown whether the "America's Most Wanted" segment directly led to Gutierrez's arrest this morning.

The show, which is seen by an estimated 6 million viewers each week, also aired a segment Saturday night on a second New Mexico fugitive, 53-year-old Kurt Sohrbeck, who remains at large after allegedly shooting and seriously wounding a Lincoln County sheriff's sergeant on March 13. 

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