Posted on 04/13/2006 10:19:22 PM PDT by SandRat
A Nogales, Sonora, police commander is in the Santa Cruz County jail after immigration authorities matched his fingerprints to a warrant out of California.
On April 4 at about 10:30 p.m., U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detained Jesus Rolando Villanueva Ramos, 45, as he attempted to pass through the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Ariz., said Roger Maier, Customs and Border Protection spokesman.
Officers pulled Villanueva Ramos over for a secondary check and discovered a California warrant for his arrest after running his fingerprints through the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), Maier said.
He was detained and handed over to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, Maier said.
Sheriff Tony Estrada said the warrant was issued in 2004 out of Sacramento for violating parole on robbery charges stemming from Chula Vista, Calif. Plans have been made to extradite him later this week or next week to Sacramento, Estrada said.
The case has caused a stir in Mexico, where officials questioned if Villanueva Ramos was wrongfully detained. Villanueva Ramos has been with the Nogales, Sonora, Police Department since 1998 and a zone commander since September, according to his attorney, Fernando Gaxiola. But Customs and Border Protection officials say they double-checked that his fingerprints matched the warrant. On Wednesday, Santa Cruz County officials triple-checked by sending fingerprints taken from jail to Sacramento and received confirmation that they matched those of the man California authorities were looking for, Estrada said.
Estrada believes the confusion was caused by the use of more than 30 aliases by Villanueva Ramos during what he called an extensive record of deportations in the 1980s. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Brian Levin confirmed that Villanueva Ramos has been deported out of California but didn't know how many times.
Gaxiola criticized the handling of the case and said he will see his client exonerated.
This is the way Gaxiola tells it: Villanueva Ramos was released from a state prison in April 1989 and then deported to Mexico by Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
In June of 1989, state officials issued a warrant for his failure to report for parole. Since he was deported, Gaxiola said his client shouldn't face charges for violating parole. He said officials reissued the warrant in 2004. Sheriff Estrada said that would explain why so much time passed between the incident and the appearance of the warrant.
"All it means is that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing," said Gaxiola. "If Immigration removes you from the United States, you didn't break parole, it's as simple as that."
Levin said Villanueva Ramos could face charges of re-entry after deportation but they are concentrating on the warrant first.
Damn. hatewhenthathappens...
NOT
Yeah!!!! This is a great post.....Thanks!!! This is too hilarious!
I too am ROFLOL!! Be sure your sins will find you out, huh? : ))
I certainly hope this IDIOT gets his come-upins'!!
This shows you how arrogant they have become when they think they can cross the border with impunity when they have warrants out on them. Our politicians and MSM make them think they are welcomed with open arms no matter how many of our laws they break!
Poor Senor Ramos has a terminal case of revolving door syndrome...
"All it means is that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing," said Gaxiola.
Now they do, both are CUFFED!
What does it say about Mexico that not only would they make a convicted felon a cop but promote him to the commander?
Sweet.
Life was so smooth and then came the bump at the border.
Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.
The United States of America
will henceforth be known as ...
BUSHMART
... where the doors are never closed and the shoppers are never hosed.
"Welcome to Bushmart, senor. Would you like a cart?"
Well, OK, once in a while one gets hosed. Y'all come back now, ye hear?
Sounds like the kind of guy the Democrats would nominate for President.
Temporary Guest Workers.
Coming soon: California announces any Mexicans caught by CA. cops are exempt from arrest for any reason.
It says Buisness as Usuall.
In the early 90's, I was stationed at Laughlin, in Del Rio Tx. The border / sister city is ciudad Acuna. When you went across the border Almost all the city officials had cars with Tx plates. New shinny fully loaded cars with current plates.
Almost everyone of them was stolen, normally from San Antoio. The place is full of thieves, especially the gov't
Say it aint so. They got Jesus in custody? Man, does that ever bum me out.
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