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[South Texas:]Illegal immigrant couple accused of trying to kidnap children
The Monitor ^ | April 25, 2008 | Sean Gaffney

Posted on 04/26/2008 4:57:27 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

PEÑITAS | ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING

An illegal immigrant couple who allegedly attempted to kidnap three children appeared in court Friday.

Honduran national Martha Amalia Gomez, 36, and Mexican national Jose Valera, 41, told police they stopped the children as they got off the school bus Thursday afternoon on Tom Gill Road to simply ask for directions.

Police, however, said the couple motioned for the children to get in their car before the children's mother came out of the house. The couple then fled about 4:15 p.m., said Peñitas police Officer Emily Melendez.

Later that day, someone saw a report about the incident on the TV news, called police and led them to the corner of Farm-to-Market Road 1427 and Maribel Road where the couple was found. Police brought them in for questioning and then officially arrested them that night.

They were charged with criminal intent kidnapping and each received a bond of $40,000, Melendez said. ____

Monitor reporter Sean Gaffney compiled this report.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; corruption; crimaliens; honduras; immigration; kidnappings; mexico
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To: doc

“Just wait until the police, judges, and politicians are either bought off or threatened with violence.”

I think we’re already there. Not that it won’t get worse.


21 posted on 04/27/2008 7:06:19 AM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Johnny Sutton’s kind of people.


22 posted on 04/27/2008 7:36:27 AM PDT by Dante3
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