Posted on 12/18/2004 6:45:29 PM PST by nanak
Two Maricopa County sheriff's deputies were shot Thursday during the serving of a search warrant in east Mesa. A suspect was shot by a third deputy.
Deputy Sean Pearce, who is the son of Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, was shot in the abdomen. He was flown to Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, where he underwent surgery to remove part of his large intestine. Deputy Lew Argetsinger was shot in the hand and taken by ambulance to the medical center. Both were stable.
The suspect, Jorge Luis Guerra Vargas, 22, was flown to Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix with nonlife-threatening facial injuries.
According to authorities, detectives with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office wanted to execute a search warrant at the mobile home of a homicide’s investigative lead, but asked Maricopa County SWAT team members to enter first to ensure their safety.
Lt. Dave Trombi said seven members of the team knocked on the door at 111 S. 91st Way at 6:35 a.m., announced their presence in English and Spanish, then broke through the door. They were a short distance inside when a subject opened fire.
Both deputies shot were wearing ballistic body armor, but Pearce was struck in an unprotected spot, Trombi said.
A third deputy returned fire on GuerraVargas, who was alone in the home, Trombi said.
Pinal County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Minter said detectives had hoped to obtain evidence pertaining to a recent homicide in Hewlitt Station, a community near Queen Valley.
A hunter called deputies Dec. 5 after he found a body with a gunshot wound to the head buried under a pile of scrap lumber, Minter said.
Investigators found fresh tire tracks on the scene, and the clue led authorities to the mobile home.
Esteban Soto, the investigative lead in the case, was found Thursday in New Mexico and is being detained for questioning there.
Deputies are still working to identify the body, which is described as a 20- to 25-year-old Hispanic male.
Pearce has been on the force for 11 years, Deputy Argetsinger for three years.
Rep. Pearce, said he was in Washington, D.C., testifying on an immigration panel when he was told his son had been shot.
"He is feisty. He will do well," he said. "I guarantee that the moment he is allowed back, he will put that uniform on and be out there doing police work."
Russell Pearce also was shot in the chest and hand in the line of duty about 20 years ago while chasing gang members in Guadalupe.
Efforts to contact Argetsinger's family were unsuccessful.
LOL
You have no idea how funny that is.
Politically, there are about 40 US congressmen who are black and for most of them, their views are INSANE. The Hispanics have assimilated better than the Native born blacks. The political destruction of the wacko liberal black viewpoint has been one of the best results of the hispanic rise.
Multiculturalism isn't racial, it's cultural. That's why it's not called multiracialism.
Calling someone a racist because they don't support the multi culty diversity crap is ridiculous anymore. Too many people are awake and can see the net negative effect it's having in this country and on their pocketbooks.
Gee, you say that in an instructional tone as if I needed instruction.
LOL
Did I call anyone a racist?
I think not.
That too, but usually it soesn't involve an illegal alien!!
So what's your point??
Yes and you seem to think that if you earn more and everything costs more, that you are better off. I think some people on your side of the argument also believe in the free lunch.
Facts and personal testimony mean nothing to you. Please stay off juries. I won't waste any more of my time with trying to help you out of your denial.
Actually here in Arizona you wouldn't believe the car accidents involving illegals. Often unreal numbers of people crammed in a vehicle and it rolls over (sometimes but not always involving a chase---you know, law enforcement not enforcing the immigration laws as so many here posit is not being done).
Do you support immigration without limits?
That's one way to deport them!!
Since you misunderstood a comment about multiculturalism as a racial comment, rather than the tone it's the needed clarification of your error that you should find instructive.
No you didn't. Neither did Travis make a racial comment at #9.
That was a different era. It was a time when the US had a monopoly on peace, innovation and capitalism. Every other part of the world was missing one of those 3 things. That monopoly is long gone. Bush has been a president with great forsight. He is telling you now, that you need to own something. Just being a laborer won't cut it anymore. The ownership society is here and becoming more important
In today's era, you either bring cheap labor in to where the factories are, or you move the factories to where the cheap labor is. Or damned if you do or damned if you don't. You better own something.
Sikhs make good Americans. Hard working as hell, and patriotic to boot. Welcome to Free Republic!
Huh?? I have yet to hear blacks speaking Swahili or insisting on bilingual ed --- they all speak English --- even immigrant blacks seem to pretty much all speak English. As far as blacks assimilating --- they pretty much invent much of our cultural fads --- the clothes the hairstyles, the music. Elvis and many others imitated black musicians. You saw white people wearing afros and corn rows --- and the baggy pants --- the rap music --- blacks started all that --- it's more like everyone else assimilates into what they start.
Hmmmm, I suppose you would say the Illegals saved my life.
Since they stole and wrecked my frickin' car and I had to walk more (heart smart).
Dummy!
In Texas at least the blacks have a much higher rate of high school graduation than do the hispanics (Mexicans) -- which is only about 50%. And the hispanics are catching up very fast or already surpassed them with teen illegitimacy rates.
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