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Rape suspect flagged as illegal immigrant was released weeks before Dallas murder
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog) ^ | Nov. 5, 2011 | Avi Selk/Night Reporter

Posted on 11/06/2011 10:19:03 AM PST by moonshinner_09

A couple weeks ago, TDMN reporter Wendy Hundley wrote a brief blog item on what initially sounded like one of many arguments-turned-fatal in Oak Cliff.

On Monday, victim Jesse Benavides' brother contacted us, asking us to look closer into the history of the accused killer, Santana Gaona.

He was right. There was much more to the story. Here's the top of our article in Saturday's paper (sub required).

Seven weeks before he allegedly shot a man to death at a family birthday party, Santana Gaona was in a Dallas County jail cell -- accused of raping his wife and red-flagged as an illegal immigrant

(Excerpt) Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: alien; borderwars; immigration; rape; tx
Highlighted areas of story...Seven weeks before he allegedly shot a man to death at a family birthday party, Santana Gaona was in a Dallas County jail cell -- accused of raping his wife and red-flagged as an illegal immigrant Ineligible for bail and facing deportation hearings, at the least, the 31-year-old floor layer seemed unlikely to be let back on the street any time soon. Then, for unknown reasons, the rape charge collapsed and federal officials halted the deportation process. Gaona was set free.

This almost reads like at what point does it take to arrest an illegal, clearly rape isn't enough to detain him and now a person lay dead... catch and release..

1 posted on 11/06/2011 10:19:09 AM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

His wife dropped charges?


2 posted on 11/06/2011 10:20:38 AM PST by heartwood
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To: heartwood

I am unsure, here it says,Then, for unknown reasons, the rape charge collapsed and federal officials halted the deportation process. Gaona was set free.


3 posted on 11/06/2011 10:27:58 AM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

Get a rope.


4 posted on 11/06/2011 10:35:27 AM PST by EEGator
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To: moonshinner_09

He was set free so that he could apply for that in-state tuition without consequence


5 posted on 11/06/2011 10:41:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: moonshinner_09

This seems to me to be a clear case of law enforcement protecting an informer. The article all but makes that explicit. Whomever he was informing on will figure it out and likely put his lights out.


6 posted on 11/06/2011 10:41:41 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must...)
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To: moonshinner_09

Perry let him go.


7 posted on 11/06/2011 10:46:50 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: moonshinner_09

“rape, illegal alien, jailed, released, shot a man to death”

“It would be heartless not to recognize that we all have bad stretches. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who ... “
The GOP, US Chamber of Commerce, Mutt Romney, Ricardo Perry, Wall Street Journal, et al.


8 posted on 11/06/2011 11:01:25 AM PST by tumblindice (The 2nd should be 1st)
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To: moonshinner_09

Open them borders wide and this is what we get. I am sure La Raza Rick will say this guy only needed more benefits to be kept from crime.


9 posted on 11/06/2011 11:07:27 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL

The DMN put this on a paywalled blog but not in the paper, right?


10 posted on 11/06/2011 11:10:31 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: moonshinner_09

maybe he pulled an Uncle Omar, I wish to make my one phone call to the white house ??


11 posted on 11/06/2011 11:14:07 AM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: afnamvet; TheOldLady; BuckeyeTexan; Glenn; Cheerio; fuzzthatwuz; Cap Huff; aragorn; HOYA97; ...
Can't make this stuff up!


12 posted on 11/06/2011 2:16:33 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MestaMachine

Saw it & was about to ping you after I replied to this other outrage.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2803330/posts?page=231#231


13 posted on 11/06/2011 2:28:21 PM PST by thouworm (.)
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