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Drug Smuggler Shot by Agents Indicted[Osvaldo Aldrete Davila]
AP ^
| 11-15-07
Posted on 11/15/2007 4:09:56 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Mexican man shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents who were later convicted in the shooting has been indicted on federal drug smuggling charges, authorities said Thursday.
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso, according to U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton.
A sealed indictment was issued in October charging him with smuggling marijuana in September and October of 2005, several months after he was shot in the buttocks while fleeing from a pair of Border Patrol agents.
The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were convicted last year of shooting Aldrete and lying about it.
Aldrete is scheduled to appear in federal court in El Paso on Friday.
Sutton noted that critics of the prosecution of the agents have complained that Aldrete, "the fleeing, unarmed drug smuggler they shot," should have been prosecuted.
"I have repeatedly said that if we obtained sufficient competent and admissible evidence against Aldrete, we would prosecute him," Sutton said in a statement.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aldretedavila; aliens; borderagents; compean; corruption; davila; immigrantlist; immigration; johnnysutton; ramos; wod
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PTL and pass the ammuntion!
To: SwinneySwitch
I predict this thread will be hijacked within 10 minutes.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:12:40 PM PST
by
WakeUpAndVote
(I smell turkey and stuffing!)
To: FryingPan101; AnimalLover; backtothestreets; Olephart; pulaskibush; call meVeronica; rineaux; ...
Texas 2 ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:12:58 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
To: SwinneySwitch
What Sutton isn’t saying is that these charges stem from the drug bust that was not told to the defense at the BP trial, he is now prosecuting two years later.
“On or about sept 2005”
Sutton is merely trying to cover his assets....
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:13:38 PM PST
by
padre35
(Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:14:30 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: SwinneySwitch
should check shot on the botox
To: SwinneySwitch
..and to relieve the remainder of his guilty conscience—Sutton can ask his friend GWB to pardon C&R
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:23:33 PM PST
by
WalterSkinner
( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
To: cripplecreek
So why are Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos still in jail?
They shot an illegal who, in all probability, will wind up in prison himself. What’s the real problem here?
TC
To: Ajnin; Arizona Carolyn; Calpernia; CAluvdubya; christynsoldier; Cyropaedia; dennisw; Digger; ...
RAMOS/COMPEAN Ping
Please freepmail me if you want on or off this list.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:35:10 PM PST
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: WakeUpAndVote
Has it been hijacked yet?
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:35:16 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
To: padre35
Correct. This is the crime that scumbag Sutton kept out of court so he could throw Ramos & Compean into prison
Johnny Sutton is lower than whaleshit
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:39:48 PM PST
by
dennisw
(Islam - "a transnational association of dangerous lunatics")
To: dennisw
If he had an ounce of integrity at the least the defense team would have been informed so that this guy could be impeached on the stand.
A bit late now Mr. Sutton
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:43:39 PM PST
by
padre35
(Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
To: padre35
Sutton is merely trying to cover his assets....True the stink weed, knows he will be out of a job in about 14 months.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:52:31 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: WakeUpAndVote
I predict this thread will be hijacked within 10 minutes. Can you please describe what the hijackers look like so I can watch out for them?
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:54:47 PM PST
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: SwinneySwitch
he got hisself shot in the butt-hocks.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:54:51 PM PST
by
ichabod1
("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
To: dennisw
Correct. This is the crime that scumbag Sutton kept out of court so he could throw Ramos & Compean into prison Johnny Sutton is lower than whaleshit
Well, I think you're being just a little bit charitable there...
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:57:16 PM PST
by
Cyropaedia
("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
To: Pentagon Leatherneck
Good question - it’s one of the reason I’m not willing to support the RNC. Much as I admire Pres Bush, it is
absolutely absurd that Ramos and Compean are still in prison.
To: GOPPachyderm
To: calcowgirl
To: incindiary
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