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.
Look in the mirror, RACE HUSTLER.
That's La Raza and MEChA over your shoulder beside you, cheering you on
Whatever Travis, I'm not the one who went into hyperbolic emotion mode and try to blame a whole group(immigrants) of people for the actions of one.
Whatever. Just recognize your allies in this discussion, for the rest of us surely do.
RINOOBLs. La Raza. MeCha. MALDEF.
Birds of a feather.
RINOOBLs. La Raza. MeCha. MALDEF
They aren't my allies, just pointing out your outrage and your trying to blame a whole group for the actions of one.
You're in jesse jackson and al sharpton territory, IMO.
Look up-thread, and see who injected race into this. You did.
It's about the criminal side effects of uncontrolled ILLEGAL immigration, not RACE.
Lol. I spit my coffee out on that one.
Amen. What you said.
It's about the criminal side effects of uncontrolled ILLEGAL immigration, not RACE.
Oh come on, everyone knows that race had something to do with the initial posting of this thread, since the vast majority of illegal immigrants are hispanic.
Have you seen me say let this guy off the hook, no I say throw the book at him, but I don't try knee jerkingly to lump every immigrant in the same class as this guy.
What you are trying to do would be like saying that every person named Johnson(the name of the guy in the link on reply #76 who killed a cop) is a cop killer.
I agree, but a mass deportation is never going to happen. This problem has been festering for 40 years(especially after LBJ dismatled the guest worker program) and it won't be solved overnight also.
Must be great, looking at this through Alice's looking glass.
You are the one who contorts oppostion to uncontrolled ILLEGAL immigration into racism. Not us.
Let me repeat for you what was just said above, because you seem to have missed it.
Hispanics are fine. Mexicans are fine. Legal immigrants are fine. ILLEGAL immigrants from ANYWHERE are a huge problem for our society.
They bring with them a disregard and a disrespect for the rule of law, from day one.
But I don't expect a RINOOBL to acknowledge this. It might lead to a disruption of the dirt-cheap labor pipeline.
And for RINOOBLs, cutting wages by employing ILLEGALS is ALL that matters.
The destruction of the American middle class in one generation? Who cares? RINOOBLs live in gated communities. Their children go to private schools.
Actually, home grown Americans also shoot cops, see the link in reply #76.
But what the hey, if you feel to make a joke out of situations of where cops get shot or killed, by Americans or illegal immigrants, that's your right and no one is stopping you.
I missed your 90 while writing 91. Great to see you coming around, it's all been worth it on this thread.
Good night. Hasta manana.
Yeah the vast majority of whom clean toilets or pick vegetables. All of them are akin to murderers to you, IMO, correct.
But I don't expect a RINOOBL to acknowledge this. It might lead to a disruption of the dirt-cheap labor pipeline.
Oh yeah those nasty greedy farmers who grow food. How dare they try to take a risk and get their part of the American dream.
Excellent post. Thanks to your family for your brothers service to our Country.
We must preserve this country FIRST. But our wonderful politicians cant seem to get the picture...
illegals BAD....this must be a war we win!
It's time.
Why do they race bait? Because they have no valid arguement for this invasion and because for some reason on this forum they are allowed to continue to disrupt every thread about illegal immigration to attempt to make 85% of the American public look stupid. They are arrogant and could care less what happens to our country. MONEY is their diety and what is SO amazing is they claim to be Christian. They care nothing for hispanics, but wish only to exploit them and us. The worst part is they will appear to the DU side of the world as representative of FR and republicans. They are how this forum and the republican party gets a bad name by too many.
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I don't frequent these threads. What is a RINOOBL?
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