Posted on 01/28/2008 5:24:24 PM PST by Sammy67
A felony conviction and subsequent deportation didn’t stop Manuel Enrique Morales from crossing the border to return to Mesa, where police allege he and others terrorized victims with an assault rifle in a series of home invasions.
This time, though, the 19-year-old illegal immigrant is going to stay awhile because police jailed him and five alleged accomplices in the spree of armed robberies that span from Nov. 16-29.
Home invasions were becoming so rampant in Mesa in recent months that police formed a special task force to address the problem, which they believed was the work of as many as four crews.
“This is the major one,” said Detective Chris Arvayo, Mesa police spokesman.
Court records show that even though police worked quickly in developing suspects, the crew pulled the heists off at a clip of nearly one every three days.
Mesa police had other suspects in custody and were on Morales’ trail. Police said he left his fingerprints on duct tape used to bind victims, and they picked him out of a lineup — sometimes as the one wielding an assault rifle.
Then he got deported to Mexico.
One of his partners sold the rifle to help Morales get back across the border, and Mesa police nabbed him at 1 a.m. on Dec. 21, a search warrant
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Too bad Joe Horn wasn’t around when this POS broke in.
Time for Mesa homeowners to start packing Remington 12 guagers.
Or Mossbergs.
Invading the homes Americans won’t invade.
I heard the President on the radio today saying he was about to revisit the important subject of “immigration” and what was urgently need was a “comprehensive approach”
Get ready ...
Regards
McCain would make this guy a U.S. citizen.
“left his fingerprints on duct tape used to bind victims, and they picked him out of a lineup”
Then he got deported to Mexico.
Kidnapping and robbery? Why wasn’t he in prison? Deported?
someone should give him the double ought buck deportation.
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