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.
By the time the RINOOBLs "get it," it'll be too late to reverse.
What is your point of view? Do you think articles like this should be hidden? Do you think Americans have the right to know about the crimes that illegal aliens commit? I think information like this should be shouted out at America, and especially to the politicians that have encouraged illegal immigration and the mess it brings to our country.
It's the double whammy, we get it from both directions, the RatOBL and the RINOOBL.
No surprise in that statement. You who have said on multiple occasions you'd be happy if the U.S. committed mass genocide throughout the world in order to get rid of all people who you consider to be undesirable. Looks like you've joined old Pat in leaning so far to the right that you fall off the cliff into the realm of a certain political party that we had to destory 60 years ago.
People like you, who have for whatever reason, become convinced that an entire class (or classes) of people are the cause of every problem in this country are just as dangerour or perhaps even more so than the very threats you claim to be against.
Bump
Blessings. You are a great American.
It isn't Your cause is it?
Ergo all illegals shoot cops. They are all guilty and should all be punished. Still not working for me.
Our last and only hope to save OUR great REPUBLIC, The Republic of The United States of America.
Illegals have more of a reason to fear the law than your average Joe Citizen.
Prayers for the deputies. Vargas should get the chair for shooting our cops.
Sounds to me like you're saying "I got mine and the rest of the world can go the hell. Freedom is too precious to give to others. It's worth hoarding for ourselves."
I agree.
I came to UNITED STATES legally, and I don't have anything against people who stand in line, follow the laws and enter my country legally.
Don't you know there is a lot of difference between LEGAL and ILLGEAL?
I don't know what "RINOOBL" means, but I get the gist of it. I wish those kind of non-patriotic Americans would get on the bus to Mexico right along with the illegals. We don't need either kind.
Mr. ILLEGAL ALIEN CHEERLEADER, go and see how our southern neighbors treat the ILLEGAL ALIENS who enter their country from their SOUTHERN BORDER eg. illegal aliens from GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, El SALVADOR etc.
RE: Your post # 38... LOL .. Keep dealing with the OBL crowd and you be talking to yourself all day long. Lord knows you can't make headway with them.
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