Posted on 06/26/2009 11:42:06 AM PDT by La Lydia
A career criminal was granted a special marriage visa to enter the United States, despite a lengthy list of arrests that span two-decades, only to be charged in this week's murder of a Houston Police officer, according to Houston's mayor and police. Andres Nava-Maldonado is jailed on Capital Murder charges in Tuesday night's death of HPD Senior Officer Henry Canales, 42, during an undercover sting operation in southwest Houston. While he is not the suspected trigger-man, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lycos said he is charged with being involved in the robbery that ended with Canales' death.
Police revealed on Thursday afternoon that Maldonado has at least 8 aliases, and he had been arrested 8 times in California dating back to 1990, including an attempted murder charge that was reduced to a lesser conviction for some reason. Also that year, he was arrested for being under the influence of drugs, and then a robbery charge that was dismissed for unknown reasons.
In February 1991, he was jailed for assault but then given 30-months probation, followed by a grand theft, assault, and displaying a firearm charge. He served 10-days in jail for giving a phony identification to police that year as well. Instead of being thrown out of the country for that lengthy list of crimes, Houston Mayor Bill White revealed in an afternoon briefing that Maldonado was actually granted a K-1 visa from the federal government...
A K-1 visa is valid for only 90-days, usually reserved for someone who is engaged to be married to a US citizen who's serving in the military. Mayor's Chief of Staff Michael Moore said Maldonado apparently applied and promised to marry someone in the United States, but then never married anyone and remained in the country....
The adult female who was also jailed on Capital Murder charges after being caught leaving the scene, Xiomara Mendez-Rosales, had been arrested by HPD in 2006 for family violence assault. HPD Homicide Squad Captain Steve Jett said she had a deportation order in effect at the time of her arrest, but he said HPD had no way of knowing that because only criminal charges would show up when names were checked on crime databases in the past. He said deportation orders are civil matters...
Not just a disgrace, but a serious abdication of the Constitution by our elected rats. I will print a copy of this and send it to anyone’s address I can get. The feds continutally let these animals into our country, and at the same time they are doing their damndest to disarm us or make it real damn difficult even to get ammo. This animal fired off 10 rounds at a cop. Fortunately, another cop dropped/killed the illegal. The reason cop killers are special threats is because if they willingly shoot a cop, then civilians are nothing but target practice. I thank God that I live in a concealed carry border state. Can you imagine if this was Kalifornia? But boy if you don’t answer all the questions in the census, they will come after you. This is just so much BS.
Notice how the mayor was outraged at the Feds when Houston is a sanctuary city? Ice has to be notified to act. If Houston won’t turn them in, what is ICE supposed to do?
When the Houston Chronicle first posted its version of this story, there were nearly a 1,000 comments on their website, none of the appreciative of the mayor and his sanctuary policy. The number of people fed up with this is reaching critical mass; meanwhile, BO is brining up his amnesty bill. Feel safer? Or no?
So, the District Attorney is not suspected as the trigger-man, but he is charged with being involved in the robbery?
Ether we have a bad DA or a reporter who can't write.
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