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 homicides 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.
Tell your brother he is a Great American, and the rest of us thank him for serving this great country of natural-born citizens and LEGAL newcomers to our shores.
I am proud to have made your acquaintance.
Once-Ler's comments sure made me wonder if he/she is another one of them thar Aztlanders.
You'd think it might give the RINOOBL pause to consider that they're on the same side of the issue as the 'rats but I guess the fact that it doesn't is why they're RINOs, isn't it?
I hope this doesnt hurt his chances of being given amnesty and a drivers license.
I'm thinking he's in love with one or two (lucky guy!) of them beautiful babes.
I don't see any glee here. I see someone who is tired of the cost in money and danger that we are paying to have these people here. While not every illegal alien is going to be violent towards Americans or law enforcement, their presence does harm and not good. We need to stop providing them with any benefits that come from tax dollars. We need to punish employers who knowingly employ them.
Bill
A "RINOOBL" is a member of the "Republican In Name Only, Open Borders Lobby."
A couple RINOOBLs infest all border threads, accusing anyone who wants to defend American sovereign borders of being neo-Nazi "Stormfront" racists and David KKK Duke fans.
It's the only argument they have left (the race card) even when race is not brought up. In this respect, RINOOBLs have much in common with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
But all they really care about is paying dirt-cheap wages to their illegal alien nannies, factory workers, and landscapers, and letting the taxpayers foot the bill for their medical expenses and education.
Exactly. From the left and the right, the OBL despises the American tax-paying middle class.
RatOBLs and RINOOBLs.
One solution would be to simply translate Mexican immigration law into English, adopt it as U.S. law, and apply it to illegal aliens in America.
Mexican immigration law: Instant deportation. NO driver's licenses. NO free education. NO free medical. NO welfare. NO food stamps. JAIL for any infraction.
Yep. It's obvious when they talk about the "jobs Americans don't want do to".
They should be a little more specific: "jobs Americans (like the ones they know) don't want to do".
They've no idea what sort of jobs Joe Sixpack living out in "flyover country" would do or does do.
I doubt they even know any Joe Sixpacks.
staytrue - I think you turned into the wrong driveway on the Web.
NANAK - Glad you're an American who sees the problem. Thank
you and keep praying for our troops.
bump.
"Jobs Americans don't want to do for half of current prevailing wages, and no benefits."
But the RINOOBLs could care less. They don't care if there are American citizens, Pakistani illegals, Chinese illegals or Mexican illegals working in their factories. All they care about is paying substandard wages, and no benefits. (The taxpayers will pick up the benefit costs.) They don't care if they destroy the American middle class in one generation.
RINOOBLs would chain their own mothers to the loom or machine press, if it would cut their bottom line hourly wage payouts and result in higher quarterly profits.
I hope they were not driving without a license.
Yep -- border jumpers think one's a sick bird.
Ill Eagle..
I can alreay see the usual suspect BOTS here on the thread attacking you. I knew it wouldn't take long. The RepublicRats and their "immigration is good for business and islam is a religion of peace president" can all take a flying leap.
No.
How many times does it have to be explained to you that there is illegal immigration and illegal immigration?
that would be illegal immigration and legal immigration.
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