Posted on 11/24/2016 3:29:40 PM PST by digger48
YULEE, Fla. - A Guatemalan man was captured in Jacksonville Tuesday night, nearly 12 hours after he fled a Yulee gas station and a Nassau County deputy was killed pursuing him, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said.
Francisco Obbidio Portillo-Fuentes was taken into custody about 7:45 p.m. at Atlantic Self Storage on Powers Avenue following a manhunt involving the U.S. Marshal's Office, Nassau County Sheriff's Office, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and Florida Highway Patrol, according to Leeper.
Portillo-Fuentes, 25, had been deported from the United States on two separate occasions, Leeper said. He is being held by Border Control on felony re-entry into the country. According to a division chief from the U.S. border patrol, Portillo-Fuentes is expected to appear in federal court Wednesday afternoon.
"It's very unfortunate, but certainly we're glad that at least we found the individual," Leeper said.
Nassau County Deputy Eric Oliver died after he was hit by an SUV while chasing the man across State Road 200 about 7:30 a.m.
"The grief and pain that our officers and employees feel from losing someone that they know and that they care about, who has dedicated his young life to his community, that's going to continue," Leeper said.
According to Todd Bryant, division chief for the U.S. Border Patrol's Miami Sector, at least three of six men in a pickup truck located at a Gate gas station in Yulee were foreign nationals not authorized to be in the United States. As agents were placing the men under arrest and putting them in the Border Patrol vehicle, one man ran.
While a federal agent tried to aid Oliver, two of the men being questioned got back into the pickup and they drove off. The vehicle was stopped and the driver and passenger was arrested. None of the men detained by Border Patrol were named, but three are from Mexico, one from Costa Rica and one from Guatemala.
According to Leeper, the men were living in Jacksonville and working as roofers in Nassau County. Federal officials said the five in custody will not face local charges, but will be deported.
Leeper said the search for the Portillo-Fuentes was focused on the North Hampton area, just south of where the deputy was killed. People in the area were urged to call authorities if they saw anything suspicious.
Resident Al Furber is one who called 911.
"A person that I've never seen in my neighborhood before, going on my street, walking fast, looking around," resident Al Furber said of the man he saw. "It looked like he was trying to see if anybody was following him."
His call prompted a search of the immediate area, but the man was not found. That gave people in the neighborhood cause for concern.
"We definitely locked all of our doors and I don't think people should be out ... because you don't know how desperate these folks might be," Furber said.
Later in the day, police surrounded another area where there was a report of a suspicious person, but that did not turn out to be the man they were looking for.
Early Impressions Development Day Care was on lockdown part of the morning as authorities searched the area. .
I'd wager that is a low ball estimate.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/guatemalan-man-captured-after-manhunt
YULEE, Fla. - A federal judge ordered an El Salvadoran man arrested nearly 12 hours after a Nassau County deputy was killed while pursuing him from a Yulee gas station held pending a detention hearing on Monday.
Francisco Portillo-Fuentes had been deported twice before, most recently within the past three months. He now faces felony charges of re-entry into the country, which carries a penalty of up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Portillo-Fuentes, 26, was arrested about 7:45 p.m. at Atlantic Self Storage on Powers Avenue following a manhunt involving the U.S. Marshal’s Service, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Highway Patrol that began when he ran from the Border Patrol about 7:30 a.m. He was caught not far from where he had been living.
News4Jax learned that Portillo-Fuentes had been deported from the United States in 2011 and again sometime after an August 15, 2016, conviction for DUI. He had been arrested in a traffic stop on Philips Highway at 2:15 a.m. on May 15.
After he pleaded guilty to the DUI charge, he was transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to federal court documents, he re-entered the United States a second time by wading across the Rio Grande River from Mexico to Loredo, Texas.
Portillo-Fuentes carries a penalty of up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
At an appearance Wednesday afternoon in Jacksonville federal court, Portillo-Fuentes told the judge, sometimes through an interpreter, that he has a third-grade education and has a wife and three children
His public defender asked for bail, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel B. Toomey ordered Portillo-Fuentes held pending a formal detention hearing at 2 p.m. Friday.
“I don’t think he’s going to be deported again,” immigration attorney Stephen Davis said. “ I think he is going to face some time here.”
Law enforcement, community grieving loss of deputy
Nassau County Deputy Eric Oliver died after he was hit by an SUV while chasing Portillo-Fuentes across State Road 200 about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
“How Guatemalan.”
Very sad.
3rd deportation from 30,000 feet....
Jeb! Dubya and Obama all think that this is a small price to pay for the glory of open borders, amnesty and diversity.
“Francisco Portillo-Fuentes had been deported twice before, most recently within the past three months. He now faces felony charges of re-entry into the country, which carries a penalty of up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.”
One problem is our prisons are probably better than where he was living in Guatemala. And, a $250k fine. Really? Ridiculous. How, exactly, would they collect that? What idiot thought that up? (Comment not directed at you, digger48.)
Because it is so worthwhile to come here the problem will persist until we come up with a real deterrent. Fines and prison only work if your life free is better than your live in prison and you have the money. So, it’s either lashes or death. What else will deter them?
At least 10 years of hard labor breaking boulders into sand, followed by deportation, and a tattoo on his face!
Sounds like a great penalty for a company that hires illegals. I don't think they fine them that much, but it would be a start and this madness would end. Go after the employers, done.
I would wager the same. Having lived and travelled in Florida extensively, that number would not even address the non-English speakers in the Miami area alone.
More likely approaching 2.5 to 3 million based on my own “audit” (which is just as valid as any propaganda the feds claim).
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