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.
Talk about hitting close to home - No pun intended. Perhaps this incident will provide further exposure to the proposition that we are playing with fire re: Unlimited/Illegal Immigration
A VERY good suggestion - One of the more practical and commonsense approaches I have yet heard!
While we're at it we should apply the SAME import duty structure on all products from Mexico and elsewhere that these users apply to our exports to their countries. I assure you that would also level the trade playing field as your suggestion would level it for immigration.
BTTT
I heard about that today! These people are serious and our Politico's are Horseing around and playing Grabass. The Republicans best get some serious Americans running for office. These Spineless Twits , just walk around with their Network Hairdo's and cheap cheesy smiles and have more BS than a busted sewer line!
Little Twits like Orin Hatch, and Frist have got to get a spine and take off their beanie's with the Propeller on! It's time to get serious, we are getting killed on our own borders!
RNC, DNC.
Same team.
Welcome to the realities of our southern border.
Do you EVER miss a chance to support the destruction of America?
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
"Illegals have more of a reason to fear the law than your average Joe Citizen."
Isn't it a shame that the law breakers fear the law more than the average Joe Citizen. Too bad more CRIMINALS do not fear the law enough to quit breaking our laws.
According to police records, Johnson has a criminal history. In 1997, he was charged with malicious wounding in Bristol, Virginia and sentenced to six years in prison.
I doubt it, the above scum doesn't have a hispanic name.
Has that incident been posted on this forum?
Let us know where that thread is.
Why do you RINOOBLs always race-bait? Who is injecting race and ethnicity into this discussion? You are.
We are taling about ILLEGAL criminal invader aliens. YOU are forgetting the ILLEGAL alien part, and attempting to portray our side of the border issue as racists, a typical tactic of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, La Raza, MALDEF, MEChA, and other race-hustlers.
But we ain't buying it any more. We've got your game plan down cold.
Actually it has and none of the names spewing the vitriol on this thread against a whole group of people, are on that one. On the thread below people are actually blaming the piece of scum who shot the cop.
Uh Travis, I am not the one, who is trying to make a political point.
Sure this a tragedy and this piece of scum needs to be deported, but take a look at the link in reply #76, not one of you who has shown outrage on this thread, is on that one.
You and nanak are the ones playing the race card by whipping up political emotions from this tragedy, just like jesse jackson and al sharpton.
You are the one constantly injecting RACE into a discussion of the effects of uncontrolled ILLEGAL immigration.
Look in the mirror, RACE HUSTLER.
That's La Raza and MEChA over your shoulder beside you, cheering you on.
Sounds to me like he is saying, "I say shut the borders and deport all illegals."
Why do you seek to put words in his mouth?
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