Authorities: Agency didn't want slaying suspect detained [OHIO SANCTUARY CITY MURDER & RAPE]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents told Ohio sheriff's deputies weeks ago not to detain a man who is in the U.S. illegally and now suspected of killing a woman and wounding another during a crime spree, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Lake County sheriff's deputies questioned 35-year-old Juan Emmanuel Razo on July 7 after finding him alone in a car in Painesville, about 30 miles east of Cleveland. Unsure of Razo's status, the deputies contacted Border Protection officials and were told he is from Mexico and in the U.S. illegally but they didn't want him detained.

Lake County Sheriff Dan Dunlap said at a news conference Tuesday that deputies released Razo because he hadn't committed a crime at that point.

A Border Protection spokesman did not return telephone messages seeking comment. A spokesman for U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement said in an email that ICE was closely monitoring the case. The email identified Razo as Juan Emmanuel Razo-Ramirez.

Razo was arrested Monday after a shootout with police. A detective said during a court hearing Tuesday that Razo has confessed. A judge set his bond at $10 million.

Razo has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 40-year-old woman Monday afternoon as she walked with her two children along a bike path in Concord Township. She was shot in the arm. Just over an hour later, a man told park rangers he'd found his wife, 60-year-old Margaret Kostelnik, shot to death in their home near the bike path.

The manhunt for Razo began late Monday morning after a 14-year-old girl told police he had tried to rape her in another section of the park. The Lake County prosecutor said evidence in the slaying of Kostelnik and the attempted rape will be presented to a grand jury.

If it were up to Kasich, OH would be a Sanctuary State

With everyone on Medicare. And all state revenue going to stupid construction and other crony projects.

That's why I suggest making it an issue with him. Kasich should either come out and say he'll protect OH citizens or maybe we can be rid of his campaign.

He's a scrappy campaigner, so it's better to corner him sooner rather than later. JMHO

Obama's policies kill another American woman. But she's white, so who cares?

DHS/ICE and CBP are under orders by the Obama administration to do nothing unless an arrested illegal alien has already been CONVICTED of one of the following crimes:

A felony
DUI
Non-felony sexual assualt
Domestic Violence
Misdemeanor with at least 90 days served
Firearms violation
Narcotics sale/trafficking

Four shoplifting convictions? No problemo. Reckless driving without a license? A-OK. Drunk and disorderly convictions? Carry on. Arrested twice for rape, but not convicted? Good to go.

In other words: Come to America, Your first felony is free!

And even when DHS does lift a finger, it often plays out with the criminal illegal alien being released to the streets with a Notice to Appear for an immigration hearing...one to four years down the road.

And of course, if all the stars align, and years and million taxpayer dollars later, the alien is actually deported to Mexico or Central America*, the criminal alien, if he feels like it, can just walk back into the USA again, since we have no real border.

* The very few aliens who get deported, invariably go to Mexico or Central America. Asian countries tell the USA "No, we don't want him back". African countries do the same or are considered "too dangerous" a destination. Somalis, for example (who as a group are one big crime wave) get to stay in our homeland for life, regardless of their crimes.

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