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, I'm sure murderers, rapists, and child molesters feel the same way.
I posted this in 137 and I stand by it.
My view is that in a perfect world, we and all countries should have open borders like the border between Ohio and Indiana. The reality is that we can not currently. We could probably have open borders with Japan, Ireland, etc., but not with everyone.
Border control, like most govt., is a necessary evil. But this gloating over a shooting hurts the argument of the poster.
Most laws make more sense than the immigration laws. Murder, stealing, etc. are in fact murder, stealing, etc. all the time for all people. Immigration is more like a roulette wheel, sometime you are legal and sometimes you are not depending on where the ball bounces.
The very fact that we have "illegal" and "legal" immigration as opposed to "illegal" and "legal" armed robbery says a lot about the laws.
Like I said, it is an imperfect world and our laws are crazy but the best we can do.
That's where you and I disagree. This current illegal alien mess proves beyond doubt that strong borders and immigration law enforcement is badly needed. We can't continue to finance every border hopper that strolls into America.
Black immigrants speak english better than most inner city blacks. They are also better educated and very conservative. The US inner city black culture needs to be destroyed.
Rep Pierce was attending a meeting about illegal immigration, he was called during the meeting to be informed that his son and another had just been shot by Illegals.
It's on American Patrol's front page.
http://www.americanpatrol.com/
I didn't misunderstand anything.
Period.
Are your mindreading skills for hire?
Please cut and paste any racist remarks I've made on this thread or any other, so we can put your assertion to the test.
Why is it that you RINOOBLs always scream "RACIST!!!" as your only argument against securing our borders from ILLEGAL immigration?
RINOOBLs, MALDEF, La Raza, MeCha---Birds of a feather, flocking together, screaming "RACISM!!!" to keep the borders wide open. Only the motives are different, but the methods and the results are identical.
Thanks.
Huh then why did Ford resist unionization till the last end.
Not that I am being, a Reuther protagonist on this thread, just pointing out history to your side on FR, which conviently forgets to mention, and takes quotes and history out of context to make cynical political points, kinda of like your alls new heroine, hillary, who has publicly stated that Mary and Joeseph were homeless people.
Because if a illegal Russian, Pole, etc. shot someone, it would not get posted in the same manner that a "less desireable" ethnicity does.
Bull crap. You are a mind reader now? You are qualified to infer these things? The racism exists in your fevered race-baiting mind.
RINOOBLs = MALDEF = La Raza = MeCha. They all see racism lurking under every bed, they all want wide open borders. Only the motives are different: RINOOBLs want to keep the open pipeline to dirt-cheap ILLEGAL alien labor.
Uh maybe your hillary like cynical and poltical upset and anger, over a cop being shot by a person with a hispanic name and your total silence when a cop is killed by a person named Johnson, less than a month ago, which is linked on reply #76 of this thread.
Gee, we could just solve the murder and rape problem by making them legal, according to some on this thread.
"Problem solved! No more rape and murder crimes!"
Uh Travis your hero, Henry Ford, wanted cheap labor also, as seen by his actions not in 1914, but in the mid 30's.
"Problem solved! No more rape and murder crimes!"
Uh no Travis, they could be charged with rape and murder crimes, the exception would be you wouldn't have cover to do a jesse jackson and blame a whole ethnicty for the actions of one.
Ford paid double or triple the prevailing wages for his work force, to drive wages UP, because he wanted to build a thriving middle class which could eventually afford to buy millions of his Model T's.
He was not interested in building a few "Stutz Bearcats" for other millionaires.
He "got it."
The RINOOBLs don't "get it." They are content to destroy the American middle class, our national economic treasure, in order to drive wages down.
The end point of this philosophy looks like Brazil, with vast slums, and executives flying above them in private helicopters, between their office buildings and ranches.
We have plenty of home-grown cop killers, without laying out the welcome mat for all of the killers of Mexico, thank you.
You didn't get that from anything I said.
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