Posted on 05/25/2010 2:34:30 PM PDT by NEMDF
Omaha police said have arrested three people in connection with the disappearance of an Omaha family.
Vanderlei and Jaqueline Szczepanik, along with their 7-year-old son, Christopher, were last seen on Dec. 17. They were living in and working on a church at 16th and Center streets in south Omaha.
Police said the three people, who did work for the family, have been accused of using the family's accounts. More than $4,000 was used for food and clothing items, police said.
Jose C. Oliveria-Coutinho, 35, Elias Lourenco-Batista, 29, and Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos, 30, have bee charged with unlawful use of a financial transaction device over $1,500.
"We are extremely concerned about the family’s well being due to these circumstances that have evolved during this investigation," said Lt. Darci Tierney in a news release.
Police said the three suspects used the victims' personal and business bank cards to withdraw money from ATMs.
The three suspects are all illegal immigrants from Brazil, police said. They were arrested on Monday.
Tierney said homicide detectives have been following up on the case and working closely with the Douglas County Attorney's office.
Police last week arrested Ricardo Gonzalez-Mendez on a charge of giving a false name when police questioned him on the family's disappearance.
Gonzalez-Mendez is in the country illegally, police said, but had been hired by the family for construction work.
The suspects face an arraignment at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
At least the reporter called them illegal immigrants and not undocumented victims.
This sure doesn't sound good. There's the Chicago way, and now there's the Mexico way.
Dare I ask? Illegals????
One of the articles last week after the first person was arrested, made a reference to the fact that if he posted bail, “there was a hold on him by another agency”. Never did it say he was illegal or ICE had a hold on him.
“The three suspects are all illegal immigrants from Brazil, police said.”
Police last week arrested Ricardo Gonzalez-Mendez on a charge of giving a false name when police questioned him on the family's disappearance.
Gonzalez-Mendez is in the country illegally, police said, but had been hired by the family for construction work.
Read much?
What has happened to this family? Where are they? This is horrible. A whole family dies to finance the illegals. Good grief.
It’s not necessary to be an a-hole to fellow Freepers.
Amish......ops, just finished reading article informing me that they were illegals from Brazil (thank God, not MEXICANS again!)
I can almost verbalize their belief, the Szczepaniks, that all these people needed was a helping hand and the acceptance of the U.S. government. I am sure they also thought it was a great opportunity to show their beliefs in action to their young son. I hope and pray it did not turn out to be a lesson in the fact that illegal means “someone who breaks the law”. Once someone decides one law is worth breaking, it becomes easy to break a few more.
They were from Brazil. If they would have been from Mexico all bets are off.
I mean no disrespect to you, but I think this is bullshit. These people have no sense of law. They have no social conscience. Neanderthals were better suited to civilization than these people are.
They are inferiors invading a superior civilization. Sort of like Obama. To give them any power at all is insane. They do not know how to create, build or value anything of quality. They are like wild animals that roam the land foraging for their needs, attacking when they want, pooping anywhere they feel like it.
Police said the three people, who did work for the family, have been accused of using the family’s accounts. More than $4,000 was used for food and clothing items, police said.
Jose C. Oliveria-Coutinho, 35, Elias Lourenco-Batista, 29, and Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos, 30, have bee charged with unlawful use of a financial transaction device over $1,500.
Hire illegals, pay the price.
“Police said the three people, who did work for the family, have been accused of using the family’s accounts. More than $4,000 was used for food and clothing items, police said.
Jose C. Oliveria-Coutinho, 35, Elias Lourenco-Batista, 29, and Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos, 30, have bee charged with unlawful use of a financial transaction device over $1,500.
“We are extremely concerned about the family’s well being due to these circumstances that have evolved during this investigation,” said Lt. Darci Tierney in a news release.
Police said the three suspects used the victims’ personal and business bank cards to withdraw money from ATMs.
The three suspects are all illegal immigrants from Brazil, police said. They were arrested on Monday. “
How many dead Americans will it take before people stop with their greed and/or pity in ILLEGALLY hiring these aliens and bringing them into their homes????
These aliens and their supporters are USING our good nature and welcoming history against us.
Brazilian way. Not all of these illegal aliens are from Mexico Some hail from much worse countries in Central and South America. They ride the trains up through Mexico to our border.
“Brazilian way. Not all of these illegal aliens are from Mexico Some hail from much worse countries in Central and South America. They ride the trains up through Mexico to our border.”
True. But the fact remains, if Mexico couldn’t be bought off, none of them would be transported by them here, could they?
They’re bringing in terrorists, Chinese and anyone who wants to pay them.
“Vanderlei and Jaqueline Szczepanik, along with their 7-year-old son, Christopher, were last seen on Dec. 17.”
Liz, this family is dead. These are the ‘immigrants’ some republicans insist on making ‘legal’.
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