Posted on 03/16/2004 9:06:46 PM PST by Spiff
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:22:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix was found dead Tuesday in his government car north of Tucson, an apparent suicide victim.
Thomas DeRouchey, 45, interim special agent charged with dismantling violent criminal operations associated with immigrant smuggling, was on his way to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson to participate in a press conference announcing the federal government's latest efforts to stem the flow of illegal immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at azcentral.com ...
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I am one of those who constantly label people who "attempt suicide" as total frauds - people who are just pathetically looking for attention and choose a thoroughly annoying way to get it. "It's not that freaking hard to kill yourself," I always say.
From my point of view, this guy could be a text book example on how not to be a pussy and do the job right.
Although, he could have lit the car on fire first.
I scooped the American Patrol website. I broke the story here at 1:40 pm.
It will come out in time.
Don't tell me: they transferred Steve from Miami to Arizona...
We don't have many diligent agents now we have one less.
Two less. From Alamo-Girl's Downside Legacy compilation. [24th from the bottom]
Charlene Edwards
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel 6/27/00 "……Police are investigating the apparent suicide of an U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agent's, whose body was found on the Don Shula Expressway around 4:17 this morning. Miami-Dade County Police spokesman Ed Munn says the white female who was in her 50's had a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He says it appears to be a suicide. Munn said the woman was not the INS official who participated in the Elian Gonzalez raid. The body was discovered on the expressway by a passer-by. It was located under an overpass that carries Florida's Turnpike overhead, said Munn. ……"
http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/digdocs/064870.htm 6/28/00 "……. A supervisor of immigration inspectors at Miami International Airport was found dead -- a suicide, police said -- early Tuesday in her car, which was parked beside the Don Shula expressway…….. Charlene Edwards, 52, shot herself, said county police spokesman Rudy Espinosa. She had a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol and wore the uniform of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. A passing driver made the discovery about 4:15 a.m. after noticing her 1992 Toyota parked under the Florida Turnpike overpass. Edwards lived about six miles south of there, in Goulds…….INS spokeswoman Maria Elena Garcia said Edwards started with INS as a clerk more than 15 years ago and worked her way up the ranks. She was one of 25 supervisory inspectors at the airport……"
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel 6/27/00 "…….MIAMI -- Police are investigating the apparent suicide of an U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agent's, whose body was found on the Don Shula Expressway around 4:17 this morning. Miami-Dade County Police spokesman Ed Munn says the white female who was in her 50's had a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He says it appears to be a suicide. Munn said the woman was not the INS official who participated in the Elian Gonzalez raid. ……."
There are a couple of pretty good ol' boys in the newspaper racket in Arizona, some still with bitter memories about the murder/car bombing of reporter Don Bolles in Phoenix, and willing to blow the whistle on dirty feds as well. But it sure is odd that something like this would come up just as the possibility of John McCain running as Kerry's VP surfaced.
Imagine that. How surprising! < /sarcasm>
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