Phoenix-area busts yield 48 illegal immigrants [AZ State Police not Sheriff Joe]

PHOENIX — On Thursday and Friday, officers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety arrested two suspected human smugglers and turned 48 illegal immigrants over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The first incident occurred on Thursday just before 6 a.m. when a motorcycle officer came upon a disabled pickup blocking the westbound off-ramp of 83rd Avenue along Interstate 10. The officer discovered several people under a large piece of plywood in the bed of the truck. A total of 13 suspected illegal immigrants were turned over to ICE. Two men, who were outside of the truck, fled on foot.

At about 11:25 a.m. that day, a Department of Public Safety officer stopped a Chevrolet Suburban traveling west on Interstate 10 in west Buckeye. The officer discovered the driver had a suspended driver’s license and, as a result, the officer began conducting a 30-day impound on the vehicle. As he was taking inventory of the vehicle, he saw a person’s foot under a blanket. This led him to the discovery of several people. Four men and one female were turned over to ICE.

Just after 5:30 a.m. Friday, a department officer stopped a Chevrolet pickup traveling west on Interstate 10 approaching the U.S. 60 interchange. The driver failed to yield and finally pulled over, where all of the vehicle’s occupants fled on foot. The occupants in the bed of the truck had been hiding under a large piece of plywood. The driver and the other 13 occupants were apprehended. One occupant was pregnant woman and hadn’t had food or water in four days.

About 6:30 a.m., a motorcycle officer tried to stop a pickup traveling west on I-10 at Ray Road when the driver exited at Ray Road, moved to turn right, then suddenly made a U-turn. The truck stopped and four occupants from the front seat fled and were soon captured at a restaurant. The remaining occupants, four in the back seat and nine under large piece of plywood, did not flee. Of the 17 in total, three were female and two were juvenile.

• Agents arrested a member of the Sureño 13 gang on Thursday who was in the country illegally. He was held for processing.

• Agents apprehended an illegal immigrant Tuesday, and fingerprint records revealed an arrest and charge of criminal solicitation and harassment. He was held for further processing.

• Agents on Monday checked fingerprint records of on an illegal immigrant in custody and discovered he had been convicted of second-degree felony indecency with a child/sexual contact and class A misdemeanor assault causing bodily injury. He was held for further processing.

• Agents from the Casa Grande Station were processing an illegal immigrant in custody Tuesday when fingerprint records revealed a conviction for DUI vehicular manslaughter. The man was held for further processing.

• Agents assisted the Tohono O’odham Police Department with the discovery of more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana with an estimated value exceeding $1.6 million.

More illegal alien news today.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/girl-241833-amormino-dominguez.html

MISSION VIEJO A man in the country illegally has been stalking a middle school girl since January and was arrested by Sheriff’s Department investigators after trying to set up a meeting with the young girl, authorities said.

Jose Manuel Dominguez, a 38-year-old construction worker, was arrested at the Emerald Pointe apartments just after 8 p.m. Monday when he showed up to rendezvous with the girl, said Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino. An immigration hold was put on Dominguez when he was booked into Orange County jail, Amormino said.

According to the girl, Dominguez came up to her Monday morning at Carl Hankey K-8 School and said he had seen her in a grocery store Jan. 1, Amormino said. The girl had been in that grocery store that same day, Amormino said.

He continued to engage the girl in “inappropriate conversation” and asked her about her schedule and when she liked to take walks, Amormino said.

Dominguez then, according to the girl, asked her for her phone number and said he wanted to meet her that night at 8 pm. at the Emerald Pointe apartments, Amormino said. After Dominguez left, the girl told school officials, who then called the Sheriff’s Department.

Sex crimes investigators went to the meeting place and arrested Dominguez, Amormino said.

“The scary thing is he knew where she went to school and what neighborhood she was in,” Amormino said.[snip]

Border Patrol caught one.

(Murder suspect in custody)…28 year old Rene Aguilar Orzuna was caught at the Tecate Port of Entry Friday.
Customs and Border Protection say the Mexican citizen was wanted for a murder seven years ago in New York City. CBP says Aguilar Orzuna, a resident of Puebla, Mexico, entered the Port on foot at around 5:30 Friday morning. He presented officers with a valid Mexican passport. The inspecting officer suspected the document had been altered and determined the passport did not belong to Aguilar Orzuna. Photos on the document had been switched. During the inspection it was determined Aguilar Orzuna had an active no-bail homicide warrant for his arrest. The warrant was issued in New York City in connection with a murder in June 2003. The suspect was arrested and booked into San Diego County Jail.

http://kxoradio.com/content/view/6896/2/

Check out this Mexican citizen...this is his 3rd deportation...from Canada! He could have gotten ‘refugee’ status, but couldn’t be bothered with the ‘process’...

Mexican deported for a third time

By Daryl Slade, Calgary HeraldApril 2, 2010

Three strikes and Leopoldo Rojo Beltran will soon be on his way out of Canada a third time for entering the country illegally.

The Mexican national was sentenced to five months in jail on Thursday after pleading guilty to returning to Canada without authorization, after twice previously being deported.

No record could be found of anybody ever having been deported from Canada for a third time, although the charge of illegally returning to Canada has only been prosecuted for a couple of years. One offender in Calgary last month was ordered deported a second time and sentenced to three months in jail. Another case is pending for next Tuesday.

Canada Border Services Agency could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

Beltran’s lawyer Harry Van Harten, who argued for a conditional discharge so he could avoid a criminal record, told court his client, 35, who married a Canadian citizen and fathered two children after his second deportation in 2003, will voluntarily return to his homeland after he serves his time.

His wife will then apply for entry to Canada legally, Van Harten added, in a bid to reunite the family on compassionate grounds.

Provincial court Judge Catherine Skene rejected Beltran’s pitch for a discharge, instead going with Crown prosecutor Scott Couper’s argument for five months jail time.

Skene, calling Beltran’s actions “planned, deliberate and ongoing,” said it is his own undoing that he is in such a predicament.

“One of the facts that cause the court concern is that the offender, after entering his guilty plea, now asks the court to put him in the position he would have been in had he lawfully applied to enter Canada after his second deportation,” Skene said.

“The offence is a problematic one in that it is difficult to detect and quantify the cost to the taxpayers. I was advised by counsel that it is prevalent. The offender entered Canada unauthorized for his own personal gain and to avoid the proper and lawful mechanisms in place for application.”

Court heard that Beltran was one of several people arrested in Calgary on Dec. 3, 2008, as part of a sweep of arrests resulting from a year-long Calgary Police Service drug investigation dubbed High Noon.

Beltran’s arrest was then reported to Canada Border Services Agency and he was charged with possession of the proceeds of crime. The Crown, however, stayed the proceedings related to the charge on June 9, 2009.

When arrested, he had initially given a false birth date, later proven to be wrong.

The illegal entry ordeal began on Aug. 12, 1999, when the man was first arrested illegally at the U.S. border near Port Douglas, B.C.

He then entered a claim for refugee protection four days later, but failed to show up for his hearing on Nov. 23, 1999.

He was finally arrested and deported on Sept. 4, 2000.

Beltran was again intercepted by border officers in Vancouver on Feb. 21, 2001, and he was finally tossed out of the country on Nov. 6, 2003. But he returned again.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Mexican+deported+third+time/2755386/story.html

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.