Posted on 10/28/2014 9:02:45 AM PDT by Pelham
A man accused of killing two sheriff's deputies and wounding two other people in a bloody chase through Northern California was arrested nearly a decade ago in Utah, but authorities didn't connect him with his criminal past or previous deportations.
The man known as Marcelo Marquez and his wife were scheduled to make their first court appearances on Tuesday in a Sacramento County courtroom. Prosecutors in that county and neighboring Placer County were trying to sort out what charges to file after Friday's rampage and said they would announce the counts.
No attorneys were listed for either suspect in jail records.
Immigration authorities say the fingerprints have been matched to biometric records showing the suspect's real name is Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte, and he had been living in the U.S. illegally after being convicted in Arizona for selling drugs in 1997 and deported to Mexico twice — the last time in 2001.
He appeared to be living quietly with his wife in a suburb of Salt Lake City until his arrest in California. Investigators were trying to determine how he avoided scrutiny.
Police in West Valley City, Utah, said they took a fingerprint from a man using the name Marcelo Marquez during a misdemeanor hit-and-run arrest in 2003. Court records show that he pleaded guilty, received a year of probation and was fined about $500.
However, Utah authorities never connected him to his real name or his previous criminal record.
In Utah, fingerprint data is entered into a biometric database for all people booked into jail. But for those who are cited and released, police take a print from a single finger that's kept in state criminal records.
Unless there's a request from an investigator, the print is not run against the biometric database to determine whether the person has a
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Utah (the Mormon religion) is also an enabler state for illegal aliens..
Jerry Brown is going to give driver’s licenses to 1.5 million illegal aliens in California with no requirement for proof of true identity.
California has been ground zero for the illegal alien experiment.
We have had a defacto amnesty going on in this state. The population of foreigners living here illegally is massive.
The Republicans have been as complicit in this as the Democrats. Since this has resulted in a one party Democrat state you have to wonder what is in it for the GOP.
GW Bush had a Republican Congress and could have enforced our laws and deported these foreign national lawbreakers. Instead he attempted to give them all amnesty. His brother Jeb is cut from the very same cloth and he’s the choice of the GOP establishment.
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