Enjoy your stay in the United States, sir.
Gregory Allen Despres, 23, has been charged with the murder of 74-year-old Fred Fulton and 70-year-old Veronica Decaire, who were killed April 23 at their home in Minto, 50 kilometres east of Fredericton. Gregory Despres (CP photo / WHDH-TV)
Despres was brought to Canada on a RCMP plane from a prison in Plymouth, Mass., accompanied by several police officers in plain clothes.
He has been in jail since he was arrested in Massachusetts on April 27 in connection with the murders.
After a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in Boston a few months ago, the U.S. State Department signed an extradition order to have Despres turned over to Canadian officials.
A prosecutor told the extradition hearing that police matched blood on Despres's clothes to Fulton.
Depres did not fight extradition at the hearing.
According to documents filed in the U.S. Federal Court, which include a report from the RCMP on the homicides, an attacker gained entry to Fulton's home by cutting a screen door and kicking in a second door.
The investigators believe the person then went to a bedroom, where Decarie was stabbed several times.
The document suggests that Fulton got as far as his porch before the attacker dragged him back into the kitchen and cut off his head.
The RCMP report says Fulton's daughter made the horrific discovery three days later.
On April 25, a day before the bodies were discovered, Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chainsaw stained with what appeared to be blood.
Although U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres, the border guards decided that he should be allowed to enter the country.
Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Despres, who was born in Canada, could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and he was not wanted on any criminal charges as far as customs officials could tell.
"Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up," said Anthony, adding Despres had not violated any regulations.
Anthony admitted it "sounds stupid" that a man wielding what appeared to be a bloody chainsaw could not be detained. But he said, "Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a chainsaw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint."
On the same day Despres crossed the border, he was due in court in Fredericton to be sentenced on charges he assaulted and threatened to kill Fulton's son-in-law last August.
After clearing the border, Despres hitchhiked to southern Massachusetts, where a state trooper saw him wandering along the side of a highway. He was arrested after a routine check for outstanding warrants revealed that he hadn't shown up for the sentencing hearing.
"Although U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres, the border guards decided that he should be allowed to enter the country."
*SIGH*
Too bad Canada doesn't execute criminal scum like this!
Yeah? I think your regulations (and regulators) need some revision.
Enjoy your stay in the United States, sir.
The ears fit the profile.
He looks like the poster boy for 'social debris' week.
He looks like he is related to the runaway bride.
OK, I can buy this.
How about making a phone call? Taking a digital picture of the guy and his weapons? Faxing it to Interpol? No crimelab, maybe. You guys got phones? How about ingenuity-- you guys supplied with any of that?
That is one scary-looking dude! Looks like a spawn of Charlie Manson!
I've looked into the eyes of the truly psychopathic and have had to deal with them. And I've had to deal with wannabes that try to use being psycho to fear and intimidate as a substitute for earning respect.
I could be wrong (it's only a mug shot) but this one looks like a punk wannabe that took it too far.
We should do our friends to the north a favor and send him back in a rubber jump suit with a zipper down the front.
But you have to wonder -- did he walk through customs or did he drive and then ditch the car along the way before hitchhiking? And can you imagine anyone picking him up?? The thought boggles the mind. This border crossing is on a river. If he didn't have a car, he could have left the weapons behind and merely tried to swim across. It's not a very wide river.
But no, I have never seen this man, nor have my parents. And believe me, that face is definitely something I'd remember!
EEKKK!!
The picture alone is enough to say "Arrest me! I've for SURE done something wrong!"
Looks like someone has a case of " The Misfits" envy!
Yes, that is Jerry Only and Glenn Danzig
"Wait a minute, just let me fix my hair
before you snap that picture."
I'm almost certain that the mug shot is bullshit. I've seen that picture before.
Although U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres, the border guards decided that he should be allowed to enter the country.
And we're all worried about the Mexican border?
Dude, he is sooo METHED up.