Posted on 10/05/2009 10:16:05 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Landscape business owner Robert Lane Camp pleaded guilty this morning to harboring an illegal immigrant who murdered a Houston police officer.
“It was very difficult to just see his face,” said Houston police Sgt. Joslyn Johnson, the widow of Officer Rodney Johnson. “I felt somewhat vindicated and somewhat disappointed as well.”
Camp, 48, pleaded guilty to employing and harboring Leonardo Quintero, the Mexican national convicted of shooting Johnson four times in the head after a traffic stop in 2006.
Quintero is now serving a life sentence for Johnson’s killing.
Camp faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine but prosecutors Jay Hileman and Ryan D. McConnell have suggested in a plea bargain that he be sentenced to three months in prison, three months home confinement and five years probation.
U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore does not have to follow the prosecution’s recommendation. She is scheduled to sentence Camp in November.
Camps’ lawyer Dan Cogdell said Camp had no comment this morning.
On Sept. 21, 2006, officer Johnson stopped a truck owned by Camp’s company for a traffic violation and arrested Quintero after the landscape worker could not provide a driver’s license. As the officer wrote up his report in the front seat of his police car, Quintero pulled a pistol overlooked in a body search and shot Johnson four times in the head. Quintero was sentenced in May.
Joslyn Johnson, who has sued Camp in civil court, was in federal court Monday with her lawyer and two of her husband’s HPD co-workers.
She said she is happy to see him admit guilt but would like to see a harsh punishment.
She stressed that Camp harbored her husband’s killer, knew he carried a gun, lent him his car and had it not been for Camp,...
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And none of us voters got the chance to say NO to that, so please don’t start indicting Houstonians.
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Camp needs a lot more than 5 years let alone a few month slap on the wrist.
“And none of us voters got the chance to say NO to that, so please don’t start indicting Houstonians.”
Nah, we luv ya!
Camp should get the same sentence as the illegal.
He needs to be in an orange suit picking up litter off Texas highways for the next several decades. In the interim, ALL of his assets should be surrended to a trust fund for the patrol officers widow and children. On a broader not, there is not reason to hire illegals for landscape work, if only because the landscaping does not need to be done. If you can’t do the work yourself or afford to hire American labor to do it, let the grass grow. There will be no effect on productivity.
1 Wast this the first person that was murdered by an illegal alien in sanctuary Houston?
2 If not, were those illegals harbored?
3 Were those harboring prosecuted?
4 Why THIS time?
5 Why is political imposition of sanctuary requirements not considered harboring?
Of course not. Lots of illegals murdering, getting in wrecks and absconding, burglarizing, etc.
2 If not, were those illegals harbored?
Fedgov provides them with Section 8 housing, etc. I'd call that harboring.
3 Were those harboring prosecuted?
Not that I know of.
4 Why THIS time?
Ya gotta start someplace. Seriously, it's most likely because the illegal shot a policeman.
5 Why is political imposition of sanctuary requirements not considered harboring?
It should be.
You obviously get the point.
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