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! Earlier you said --
Uh get back to me Fatlais, when ted kennedy, endorses Bush's guest worker plan, ok.
Now an endorsement won't be enough, you need "wholehearted support?" Why do you want to move the goalposts?
Huh, Mr. Johnson was sentenced to 6 years(per link in reply #76 of this thread) for a previous violent crime, and none of the usual noe pro-Berlin wall posters are on that thread basically spinning their heads with poltical rhetoric.
Oh that's correct his name is Johnson, nevermind.
Some people who attack the INFORMERS and not the problem.
Different posters are animated by different subjects, even if they're all essentially conservative. Some are more interested in border issues, or the Middle East, or tax policy, or electoral calculations, and can bring more understanding and information to threads on each of those topics than individual websurfers could hope to find out in a rather short lifetime. What's your area of keenest interest?
Seems to me that attacking other posters is the problem, and it's spreading.
1) Our borders are INCREDIBLY and COMPLETELY porous, and our Gub'mint is NOT protecting them.
2) ALL ILLEGALS...from WHEREVER they may be from, should NOT get public assistance, funding, housing, emergency care, driver's licenses,access to AMERICAN schooling, social security, welfare, tax-breaks, in-state tution credits. They should be apprehended, processed, deproted, and PREVENTED from returning, so NO lottery draft or legal process...they skipped it, they lose the priviledge (Note: NOT A RIGHT) to emigrate to America!
3) ALL businesses AND private employers MUST turn in illegals working for them, as they are either a: Feloniously using a fraudulent Social Security #, or b:Working under the tabe.
4) ALL businesses and private employers MUST pay fines equal to 10 times the illegal's salary and taxable income, as well as ALL back social security and medicare costs, as well as a proportional fine for the number of ILLEGAL employees and the extent they knew about the illegality, as well as any legal costs for prosecution and deportation! Also, a second offense is Jail for minimum 5 years, and loss of business license!
5) The US Gub'mint must seal the borders from ANY illegal Infiltration...from ANY source! This means Canada, the Hawaiian docks...the Coastal docks...ALL Illegal Infiltration! (Note which border I did NOT explicity point out...hmm, guess I'm not a "racist")
Failure to agree to ANY of these sensible proposals, means that my statements are correct, and you are more interested in cheap labor than controlling ANY borders (and I would LOVE so see the song and dance as to why these ideas are wrong/bad, ect.).
If you do publicly agree with them then do so, and I will craft a flattering apology!
Balls in your court...
I hope this doesnt hurt his chances of being given amnesty and a drivers license.
Just send him to Illinois. Our socialist governor wants to make sure that all illegals get drivers licenses and instate tuition-along with free healthcare.
"As to intellect, it's plain mine towers over yours by miles."
LOL!
Oh come on!
Why can't we just open the floodgates to say, fifty million Chi-Coms who are not getting their "fair chance" at the American Dream?
It's not like that are sneaking into the USA in sealed containers on freighters!
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