Posted on 01/16/2017 8:06:30 PM PST by CedarDave
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - The Department of Public Safety on Monday identified the man who shot and wounded a trooper near Tonopah last week and confirmed that he was in the country illegally.
Leonard Penuelas-Escobar, 37, “is a known drug user but has no criminal history that we can find,” Col. Frank Milstead, the director of DPS, said during a news conference.
“We showed that he attempted to cross the border on one occasion and was turned back,” Milstead said. “We also have information that leads us to believe that in 2007 he was actually a federal police officer for the Mexican Police.”
(Excerpt) Read more at azfamily.com ...
The “illegal alien” part cancels out a lot of “criminal history”
Who’d a thunk it - an illegal alien...?
Psalm 144: Blessed be the LORD my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.
CC
Amen.
That’s what struck me as odd, known illegal known drug abuser... that doesn’t meet the requirement for criminal history????
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