Best friends killed in crash in Va. Beach
11:18 PM EDT on Monday, April 2, 2007
A man charged with killing two best friends in a Friday night crash admitted in a Va. Beach court Monday he's in the country illegally. Alfredo Ramos, 22, is charged with two counts of aggravated involuntary manslaughter. 13News was in court where we learned Ramos doesn't speak English and so used an interpreter.
Police said Ramos was speeding westbound on Virginia Beach Boulevard when he slammed into the rear of a car stopped at the red light at Kings Grant Road.
Allison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16, were pinned in Kunhardt's Plymouth Duster in the 10:35 p.m. collision. Emergency personnel pulled them out of the car and rushed them to the hospital, where they later died.
Police told 13News Kunhardt was a student First Colonial High School and Tranchant was a student at Kellam High School.
"I just separated from the military. I’ve just been home two weeks. I just wanted to spend time with my family," said Dylan Tranchant, Tessa Trenchant’s brother. Dylan Tranchant just got home from the war in Iraq, and had to identify his sister’s body over the weekend.
Dozens of relatives and friends gathered Sunday to console each other and to remember the girls who were inseparably close friends. The girls became close friends when Tessa's mother started dating Allison's father. "They were definitely inseparable," said Allison's father, David Kunhardt. "I've never seen a closer friendship. They would finish each other's sentences."
Police said they believe Ramos had been drinking before the crash. (Ramos had already been convicted of DUI, plus 3 other public intoxication arrests, but identity theft, driving without a license, etc.)
Police also said additional charges may be filed against Ramos, who lives in the 100 block of Trace Court. Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey Bryant says it's not unusual for police to know someone's in the country illegally and not send them back. He says it requires three DUI's before immigration officials are notified.
Allison Kunhardt's father thinks that needs to change. "Illegal means illegal. It makes no sense, you get three DUI's before you're deported. It's not baseball, three strikes you're out. You're dealing with people's lives," said David Kunhardt. Arrest made in woman's dragging death in Colorado
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP-Sep 2006) A man was arrested in the gruesome dragging death of a woman after a stained and tattered photograph of him was found at the crime scene, police said Wednesday. Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, 36, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of murder and jailed without bail. Investigators said they were still trying to identify the victim, who was dragged behind a vehicle with a rope, leaving a trail of blood more than a mile long.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said agents believe Rubi-Nava is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. At a court appearance Wednesday afternoon, Rubi-Nava listened through a translator as District Judge Paul A. King formally told him the charge he faces.
Neighbors discovered the woman's body before dawn. Her face was unrecognizable and an orange tow rope was around her neck, said Nancy Foley, who lives nearby. An autopsy indicated the woman died of asphyxiation and head injuries from being dragged. The trail of blood led from Interstate 25 to the woman's body, which was found on a street lined with large ranch-style homes on spacious lots. On Wednesday, highway crews were spreading fresh tar over the roads to cover the traces of blood.
Teenage Victim Of Brutal Assault Remains In Serious Condition
(June 30, 2006)—The 18-year-old Limestone County (Texas) girl who was subjected to what county Sheriff Dennis Wilson described as “two-hours of hell” as two men raped and stabbed her repeatedly as they drove down rural roads remained in serious condition Friday at Scott & White Hospital in Temple. Meanwhile the second of the two illegal immigrants arrested in connection with the attack was transferred to the Limestone County Jail. U.S. Marshals arrested Noel Darwin Hernandez of Honduras at a Waco bus station as he tried to leave the country, authorities said. The second man, Javier Guzman Martinez, 17, of Mexico was arrested in Limestone County.Both men had Mexia addresses, authorities said. They’re charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping. The attack happened late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning on a rural road near Coolidge. Two men used their vehicle to run the teenager’s SUV off the road and then abducted her. They drove down rural roads for several hours, stabbing and raping the girl repeatedly, authorities said, and then left her in a ditch to die. But bleeding profusely, the girl somehow made her way to a house a half-mile away where she awakened residents with a faint knock on the front door. The residents of the home are both volunteer firefighters. They treated the girl for shock and called 911.
Ax Murder Of A 9-Year-Old Boy By Illegal Alien Prompted by Innocent Comment about Wobbly Tire
June, 2006. Fulton County Police hope to have more details about the vicious ax murder of a 9-year-old boy Monday night after questioning two juveniles. Police arrested the pair late Tuesday after spotting them in a stolen car that may be connected to the crime.
Police believe young Jordin Paulder was brutally murdered because of a harmless comment he made while playing in the parking lot of his father's apartment complex in Sandy Springs on Monday night. As a car drove by with four or five men inside, police say Jordin called out to the driver that something was wrong with a wheel. According to police, one of the men in the car then became enraged and made an obscene gesture at Jordin. "The child apologized to the individual," said Corporal Gary Syblis. "The individual came out and ended up axing the child to death." Although they don't know for sure who committed the gruesome crime, police say right now all signs point to 21-year-old Santos Cabrera. Cabrera was shot and killed by police after he ran from the crime scene and assaulted an officer. Investigators said two young boys who were playing with Jordin witnessed the attack --including Jordin's 7-year-old brother.
Adrian Zuniga: Brutal Illegal Alien Rapist at large in North Carolina
LOCUST, N.C. -- (June 2006) A 16-year-girl is out of the hospital and receiving counseling after she was brutally attacked and raped just feet from her home in the Stanly County town of Locust. Police said the man suspected of committing the assault has several aliases, but Adrian Zuniga is the name he's used most recently. According to officers, Zuniga grabbed the teen, who was a neighbor, then strangled her as he dragged her by the neck into some woods on Wednesday. He then raped the young woman, police said. Marsha Drye lives in the neighborhood near Lakeside Drive. "It's horrible, to be in your own area where you live and play, and then to be dragged into some woods," she said. Immigration officials confirmed through police Thursday that the suspect in the attack is an illegal alien. His papers used fictitious numbers. "It's horrible enough if he wasn’t an illegal immigrant, but to be illegally here in this country and commit these crimes just goes back to one of the basic problems we have here," Drye said. Locust Police Chief Mike Haigler said the suspect could still be in the Charlotte area staying with friends, and he fears the man won't stop with this assault. "He's out there somewhere. The probability is that he's going to commit these crimes again," he said.
"Railway Killer" Angel Maturino Resendiz Executed (He killed at least 15 Americans.)
(June 2006, Texas) The Mexican drifter known as the “Railroad Killer” was executed for the slaying of physician Claudia Benton 7½ years ago. She was killed during a deadly spree in 1998 and 1999 that earned Resendiz a spot on the FBI's Most Wanted list as authorities searched for a murderer who slipped across the U.S. border and roamed the country by freight train. Benton was stabbed with a kitchen knife, bludgeoned with a 2-foot bronze statue and raped in 1998 in her Houston home, just down the street from a railroad track. Authorities realized they were pursuing a serial killer when DNA evidence tied Resendiz to Benton's murder and the killings of a church pastor and his wife who were beaten with a sledgehammer as they slept in their house near tracks outside Houston.
The court rejected an appeal by the Houston-based consul general of Mexico questioning the Mexican national's competency and challenging the constitutionality of the lethal injection process as cruel and unusual punishment. Capital punishment is not allowed in Mexico. “We do look after the rights of Mexican nationals,” Consul General Carlos Gonzalez said. “We watch to make sure the law is applied fairly to a Mexican national.” Mexico's Foreign Relations Department protested the execution.
FBI special agent Don K. Clark says that the manhunt was complicated by the fact that Resendez had "no permanent address" while continuing to travel unchecked "throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada."
Dallas Police Officer Brian Jackson became another open borders statistic on Nov. 13 when he was shot and killed by illegal alien Juan Lizcano. Lizcano had become drunk and went to the home of his ex-girfriend to threaten her. As the police pursued Lizcano after he fled the woman's home, he shot Officer Jackson, who died later in the hospital.
Officer Jackson was remembered by his fellow police as someone who loved his job and always went the extra mile. "From Day One, he just enjoyed police work and took pride in it. And he always wanted to learn everything he could. He was very dedicated," Officer Carcone said. "He went above and beyond. He'd stay late. He'd cover anybody. He was always looking to help everybody he could."
Jackson was 28 and had gotten married just two months ago.
Jose Ramirez is every American father's nightmare. The illegal alien from El Salvador beat up a 15-year-old girl after whistling at her. He broke her nose, fractured a bone in her face and produced cuts requring 30 stitches. The man worked in construction in Spotsylvania, Virginia, where the attack occurred, and resisted arrest to the point where police had to taser him. The 28-year-old Ramirez of Prince William County was charged with aggravated malicious wounding and abduction with the intent to defile. Both charges carry potential life sentences. He is being held with no bond.
Jose Raul Pena is shown here with his daughter Suzie. An illegal alien from El Salvador earlier deported for cocaine possession, he was the doting father who used the little girl as a human shield in an hours-long Los Angeles shootout with police on July 10. Pena and Suzie were both killed.
Esmerelda Nava, aged four, was recently strangled, molested and killed by an illegal alien who had been deported in 2003. The accused killer is Cornelio Rivera Zamites of Vera Cruz, Mexico, who had been residing in Gainsville, Georgia. Esmerelda went with her parents to visit the 24-year-old Zamites. At some point late Saturday night (6/25), the child's mother realized the girl was missing. A police officer found her body early the next morning in nearby woods. An article of Zamites clothing was close by and he was gone. Zamites had been deported for driving under the influence, as well as having no license or insurance. At least his illegal status was duly noted.
Donald R. Young was a Denver police officer working a second job when he was shot three times in the back and killed by an illegal alien from Mexico, Raul Garcia-Gomez. Young was providing security at Solano Ocampo, a hall used for private functions, when he was ambushed at around 1 am on Sunday May 8; another policeman was also shot but not seriously. Both men were off duty but in uniform. Detective Young was the married father of two. He was a a 12-year veteran, who had worked with the vice-narcotics and domestic violence units, and was assigned to the fugitive-bomb squad when he died.
Virginia "Jenny" Garcia was an 18-year-old college freshman when she was murdered with a butcher knife in her own house, in her own room, on her own bed allegedly by an illegal alien. The accused murderer, David Diaz Morales, whom the Austin police had earlier held in custody for child molestation, had been released rather than deported because of the city's sanctuary policy.
Vinessa Hoera was brutally murdered in February 2004 by Faustino Chavez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, when she refused his obnoxious romantic advances. He raped her at knifepoint, strangled her, then slashed her throat five times. It took police two months of searching to find her body where it had been dumped in the woods in Suffolk County, New York. The victim met Chavez in a seafood store in Westhampton Beach where they both worked. Chavez was court Feb 14, 2005, where he accepted a plea bargain in the February 2004 murder. Vinessa's distraught family did not want the additional emotional stress of a full trial. Chavez will get his official sentence of 22 years to life in prison
Melissa Dorner was only 21 when she was murdered in her own apartment in Chicago. Her friends remembered her as a "wonderful, caring human being" and many notes and flowers in remembrance were left in front of the apartment building. She graduated from Evanston High School in 2002 and worked as a hostess in a restaurant. Melissa had fought off an accused serial rapist Mario Villa a year earlier. Her strangled and beaten body was found January 24.The apparent killer is Roberto Ramirez, who is believed by police to have fled to Mexico. He was last seen in Chicago with blood on his clothes and scratches on his face.
What sort of monster could murder three children in the most brutal manner — one child was beheaded and the two others were nearly decapitated. They also suffered a variety of injuries including blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. The victims, residents of Baltimore, (l. to r.) were siblings Alexis Quezada (10) and Lucero Quezada (9) and their cousin Ricardo Espinoza (9). The two men arrested for the crime were also relatives: Policarpio Espinoza, 22, brother of the father of the two siblings, and Espinoza's cousin Adan Espinoza Canela, 17. The accused are illegal aliens as are the parents of the murdered children. Apparently the arrests were based on DNA/blood evidence.
Roberto Martinez Ruiz: Illegal alien hit and run killer.
Three weeks before Kailya Goodman turned 10, her father was killed when an illegal immigrant plowed a sport utility vehicle into his motorcycle on a Thornton street on July 1, 2004. Justin Goodman of Denver bled to death on the side of the road. He was 31. The man convicted of the hit-and-run that killed Kailya's father was Roberto Martinez-Ruiz, who had come to Colorado illegally from Mexico. He had a record of arrests in Colorado on charges of drunken driving, hit-and-run and other misdemeanors that spanned almost a decade, court records show. Not once was his name turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE officials told a TV reporter — not until the accident that killed Goodman. "We have that level of criminal right in our hands, and we're just letting them go," said Carol Vizzi, Justin Goodman's mother.
Illegal-Immigrant Pastor Accused Of Sex Assault, Kidnapping
Ochoa-Gomez Operates Safe Houses For Fellow Illegal Immigrants
LOUCHBUIE, Colo.(June 2006) A pastor in Brighton who operates safe houses in Colorado was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexual assaulting a 20-year-old man, police said Thursday. Jesus Alonso Ochoa-Gomez, a 36-year-old illegal immigrant, operated a safe house for fellow illegal immigrants in Aurora and opened another safe house in Lochbuie earlier this year. The kidnapping and sexual assault allegedly took place in the Lochbuie location, police said. On Monday, acting on an arrest warrent, Lochbuie police officers went to Ochoa-Gomez's home, but the suspect refused to open the door. Police forced themselves into the home, where Ochoa-Gomex was arrested. His pregnant wife was also at home. Ochoa-Gomez was transported to the Weld County Jail and is being held on a $25,000 bond. He is facing charges of second-degree kidnapping and sexual assault.