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.
You and Ted Kennedy have something in common, you both want a guest worker pogram that legalizes illegal aliens.
Guilt by association: live by it, die by it. LOL!
Travis, these OBL cherry-pickers admit openly they condone allowing illegal aliens and criminal employers of illegals to break federal and state laws.
Since they openly confess they are not concerned with felon lawbreakers looting our social system and ripping off the honest American taxpayers and employers I figure they will not mind us taking their SUVs, cars, PUs, home furnishings, office furnishings, bank accounts, credit card #s, etc.
It's really no big thing they say and it appears they are being unfair and selfish and hoarding material goods and property.
- OBL troll thread -
uh no, it was the lovely and gracious Nanak, who started the thread, with the cop being shot by (an illegal alien!!!)
When it was pointed out that another cop in another part of the country was killed by a person by the name of Johnson, you all went into a defensive mode.
Your cover was blown, and all you had in your pitiful defense were ad hominems.
I received an email from Rep. Russell Pearce confirming what the newspaper did not report - that the suspects were, in fact, border intruders.
But they're just here to shoot the S.W.A.T. team members that nobody else wants to...
Guilt by association: live by it, die by it. LOL
Uh get back to me Fatlais, when ted kennedy, endorses Bush's guest worker plan, ok.
You (and your half dozen propagandist friends)are intitled to your opinion, you are correct. That's what the liberals screech and you like them rarely base your opinion on fact. You condone lawbreaking and make excuses by screaming RACIST!!!! YOU are what is wrong with this country.
The repubs finally have the power.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I'm ashamed I ever was in a group that embraces people like you. You are destroying what could have been a great party.
We on these illegal migration threads have our very existence threatened with this invasion. Yet you call us liars. When the day comes, and it will, and you have no one to protect you from the onslaught of this wave of criminality, do you think you'll be able to count on your buddies? No, they'll be stashing the cash from their ill gotten gains and running for cover.
I am content with opinions that reflect mine as has been posted on these threads: RUSH LIMBAUGH, TERRY JEFFRIES; WM F. BUCKLEY, MICHELLE MALKIN, JAMES INHOFE.
Whatever, Berlin wall redux, khruschev thought it could work, it didn't. Yada, yada, yada, I know already the Berlin wall was meant to keep people in.
An honest question, why the inferiority complex about American ideals.
bump!
Methinks her grasp of reality is not quite up to par, given the nature and quality of her posts on this topic.
Spare her, since her grasp of reality is not quite up to par, given the nature and quality of her posts on this topic.
I'm neither a RINOOBL or against securing our borders.
Thanks, but I think you're addressing part of the uber alles pubbie crowd. The Stepfords of the party. They honestly see these concerns as attacks on the President.
Note that we are informed in the snootiest of tones that culture is different than race (like we aren't the ones that realize that).
But note then that we are treated to a learned comment about "two languages" and I guess we all know what two languages THAT would be.
You are way out of bounds in the rude way you are addressing me. I don't need your instruction on how posting and reading of threads is done and furthermore I have no respect for you and don't care two figs for what you might think on any subject.
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