Posted on 10/24/2007 10:33:18 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
NORFOLK
Rolando Mota-Campos, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has racked up convictions for drunken driving, domestic assault and threatening to cut someone's head off with a machete.
Yet the 42-year-old scallop boat worker has slipped easily into the country after being deported three times.
He'll be deported again after serving a 14 1/2-year federal prison term imposed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, but he has already vowed to sneak back in.
"United States is stupid," Mota-Campos reportedly told an immigration agent after his latest arrest, court records say. "I come back every time."
Mota-Campos has skirted the law - and harsh jail terms - until now by using 16 different names and fake identification papers in the 19 years he has lived here on and off.
He claims to have killed someone in a drunken-driving accident in Mexico City and has a tattoo - a teardrop on his left cheek - that indicates ties to the Mexican mafia, according to the court records.
U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr., citing Mota-Campos' "brazen lack of respect for the law and the citizens of the United States," more than doubled Mota-Campos' prison term. With a clean record, Mota-Campos would have faced a minimum of six years and two months in prison.
Court records filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office and defense lawyers detail a chronology of Mota-Campos' criminal past and border-hopping:
Mota-Campos first crossed the border illegally in Arizona in 1988. He made his way to Brooklyn, where arrests began piling up. He was arrested twice in 1993 on assault charges, and in 1995 he was charged with drunken driving and vehicular assault. Warrants for his arrest remain on all those charges.
The records don't indicate what brought him to Hampton Roads, but he was arrested in Hampton in 1992 on an abduction charge and in 1993 on a drunken-driving charge. After the 1993 arrest, he told an immigration agent about his DUI fatality conviction in Mexico City. His deportation case that year was dropped, according to an immigration spokeswoman in Washington. The court records do not explain why. After being convicted on the Peninsula of maiming and drunk in public in 1997, he was deported on Jan. 22, 1998. Six days later, he walked across the border in Texas and then returned to Newport News. That same year, he was charged with attempted robbery, but the case was dropped and immigration was never notified.
He was deported again in April 2003, but sneaked back into the country a short time later. He was arrested twice in Newport News that November for driving without a license and drunken driving, respectively.
In September 2004, he was charged again with drunken driving. In each of the three DUI convictions, Mota-Campos never received more than a 30-day jail term. Authorities said that was because he always used a different name.
The day after the September arrest, Mota-Campos was charged with beating his wife and son. His wife became so fearful of him that she moved her and her children into hiding. Then the following February, he was charged with threatening a social worker assigned to his case who refused to tell him where his wife was living.
He told the social worker that he carried a machete and that the social worker's " sweet little head can come right off. "
After his domestic violence conviction, Mota-Campos was again deported in May 2005. Less than a month later, he used a phony passport to return to the United States through Tijuana.
In August 2005, Mota-Campos was arrested in Newport News on a warrant for threatening the social worker. He was convicted and served a short jail term before being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
That led to the current federal indictment.
In court papers, Morgan cited his fear that Mota-Campos will again return.
"The defendant has expressly stated that he has no respect for the United States and that once deported he will re-enter again and come back to Newport News, where his history of alcohol abuse will further endanger the residents of this district," the judge wrote.
In court Wednesday, Morgan asked Mota-Campos if he wished to speak before sentencing.
"I have nothing to say," Mota-Campos responded, through an interpreter.
Tim McGlone, (757) 446-2343, tim.mcglone@pilotonline.com
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What does he have to worry about? That NWO destroyer Bush?
What does he have to worry about?
nothing...
Pot-Kettle-Black.
“threatening to cut someone’s head off with a machete.”
Introduce him to Durbin, Reid and Kennedy...
They can cry over a big photo of this poster boy next time they try to push their AMNESTY Bill...
He’s the ideal candidate for whatever.....
“He was arrested twice in Newport News that November for driving without a license and drunken driving, respectively.”
How does this happen TWICE in the same month if this illegal alien was suppose to be deported?
Yes it is.
"I have nothing to say," Mota-Campos responded, through an interpreter.
I bet he didn't have a problem threatening the social worker in English though. Funny how they all of a sudden need interpreters when these illegal criminals get into trouble.
When he gets out he can still go to NY and get a new drivers license.
Mota-Campos has skirted the law - and harsh jail terms - until now by using 16 different names and fake identification papers in the 19 years he has lived here on and off.
I can say this with a straight face: I agree with him.
I'm just not sure how that helps me identify a way to change it...
It's also remarkable that in the first decade of the 21st Century some states appear not to have heard of fingerprints yet.
Wait.
Never mind.
For the AFIRE ping list, as long as everyone has taken their blood pressure medication.
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I Bump your “Un-freakin’-believable.” and raise you an “Incredibly Outrageous”. There must be a site that takes posts of all the outrages? - Not just DUIs? A non-political objective look at the damages to our country caused by the illegal immigration problems. This article belongs there. ;-(
Perhaps Mr. Mota-Campos is itching for an introduction to Ol' Sparky and a deportation to the world beyond.
bttt
GRACIAS JORGE BUSH!!!
Lots of Mexicans hate us Gringos and this POS is living proof. As a criminal he knows being a low life POS is much more rewarding in America
This kind of guy needs hard prison labor to deter him from coming back. Better yet we should lease out space in a Honduran prison and throw him in there for 30 years. That’s a lot cheaper than the luxurious prisons here. Let this POS do his gang banger thing in a cheap foreign prison
Actually an African prison would be even better. I can dream can’t I?
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