Posted on 11/10/2004 12:48:29 AM PST by esryle
DALLAS -- Six men, dressed in black fatigues with the word "Police" stenciled on the backs of the shirts, stormed a house in Southeast Dallas Tuesday morning at about 10:30, according to police. The men reportedly were armed with automatic weapons, broke windows and terrorized the family living in the 9400 block of Bermuda Road.
Witnesses said the men spoke English and Spanish. They shouted, "Policia," or police, and manhandled the family's patriarch. Two of the men used weapons to assault Maria Lopez (pictured, left), who tried to protect her 3-week-old infant.
"Well, the female, she was pretty much assaulted with a gun," Officer Y.M. Abrom said. "With one of the AK-47s. She was pistol-whipped to the face."
The men reportedly were looking for marijuana at the house, which also serves as a welding business. They failed to find any drugs at the location, and moved on to a vacant house on the same street.
There, they allegedly accosted five construction workers. The contractors were forced to the ground, and the robbers took the workers' wallets. The suspects fled in two vehicles.
Lopez received stitches at an area hospital.
Investigators called the suspects "take-over bandit copycats," referring to a recent case involving robbers armed with automatic weapons who stormed businesses.
Cowboy up !
LOL! Thanks for the belly laugh....That got the room laughing good.
More on the Mexicanization of the USA. Don't you just love this new culture? It's the culture of narco-trafficantes -- and we'd all better get used to it.
4 Adults, Child Slain In South Georgia Home
POSTED: 6:29 am EST November 9, 2004
MOULTRIE, Ga. -- Morris Gaines saw nothing unusual in his rural south Georgia neighborhood -- that is, until it was swarming with investigators and the swirling blue lights of police cars after five people were killed in a nearby house.
Four adults and a 3-year-old were found dead after older children returned from school to the neat brick and frame house about four miles east of Moultrie.
Gaines and his wife, Betty, were watching television Monday night as the investigation by the Colquitt County Sheriff's Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation proceeded about 100 yards away.
Betty Gaines said she and some other neighbors were concerned about safety, but her husband said he was not worried.
"I've got my doors locked," Gaines said. "If something comes in, I've got my pistol."
GBI Special Agent Ronnie Thompson, who was supervising the case, said investigators believed the victims knew the killer, or killers.
"We're not ruling out anything. We're not speculating on a cause. We're operating on the theory that they knew the people," Thompson said.
The adults, including two who were believed to be the parents of the boy, had been shot to death, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.
The bodies of two Hispanic women, a Hispanic man, a white woman, and a 3-year-old boy were discovered by the children. Some of the dead had been tied up.
Police were called after a 12-year-old boy, who had just returned from school on the school bus, ran screaming out of the house.
The 3-year-old, hidden in a bedroom, was found dead later by investigators, Bankhead said, adding that the cause of the boy's death was uncertain. He was identified as Juan Carlos Resendez.
Gaines said nothing appeared to be amiss earlier. At some point Monday afternoon, he said, he was on his patio, about 100 yards from crime scene, but at other times he was inside watching television with the door closed.
Authorities were searching for a white pickup seen in the vicinity.
The other children -- ages 12, 9, 7 and 5 -- were turned over to the state Division of Family and Children's Services.
The owner of the house, Ronnie Gaines of Quitman, said a white woman, Tina Resendez, rented it from him. Tina and her husband, Jaime, lived there with possibly two other adults and about six children, neighbors said.
Neighbors said the family had lived for about two months without ever causing a disturbance. They said the home appeared to be a gathering place for Hispanics, blacks and whites, with the men often spending the evening around a fire in a drum in the back yard.
Neighbors Jenny Young and Jean Oliver said that the house was often host to cookouts. Sunday night, there were more people congregated there than usual, they said.
Thompson said all the children were related. He said identities of the dead would be withheld pending notification of relatives, some of whom lived out of state.
"We're not identifying anybody right now," Thompson said.
Not just illegals --- but the drug smuggling/drug dealing illegals which is the real reason Vicente Fox wants them all over here so badly. There is big big money in working for the drug cartels --- but also it's dangerous. The Italian mafia didn't kill small children -- they had their rules and compared to the Mexican gangs look like pretty nice guys. Life is cheap in Mexico --- it suits the Mexican drug kingpins just fine to blow away a baby.
Another family slain --- same day as the Georgia Mexicans:
7 in Family Slain in Mexico in Mix-Up Laid to Police Renegades
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: November 9, 2004
EXICO CITY, Nov. 8 - Three children and four adults returning from a dance were shot and killed early Sunday morning in a remote mountain village when several gunmen believed to have been off-duty police officers opened fire on two pickup trucks, law enforcement officials said Monday.
Investigators said the gunmen apparently intended to assassinate someone else and mistook the pick-up trucks for their target. The motive for the attack is believed to be related to drug trafficking, though law enforcement officials did not provide details on Monday evening.
The killing of seven innocent people by police officers who appeared to have been moonlighting as hired assassins reflects a widespread problem in Mexico. Drug traffickers have corrupted many local police departments and often pay the police to kidnap or execute their enemies.
In this case, the victims were returning in a convoy from a religious festival in the town of Nocupétaro, about 130 miles southwest of Mexico City, at 2:30 a.m. Sunday when six men hiding behind trees unleashed a torrent of bullets from automatic rifles. State investigators later recovered at least 200 spent rifle shells, two-way police radios, clothing and bottles of wine from the site.
When the shooting stopped, seven members of the same family lay dead, among them a 5-year-old girl, Guadalupe Hernández Hernández; her 14-year-old brother, Armando; and a cousin, María Hernández Figueroa, also 14.
A survivor of the attack told the police that one of the gunmen yelled out afterward: "We made a mistake. These weren't the ones."
Then the gunmen fled. Later, two local police officers were taken into custody in connection with the shootings, according to the attorney general of Michoacán State, Miguel Ángel Arellano Pulido.
"They were confused," Mr. Arellano Pulido said, speculating that the police may have thought the trucks carried members of a rival drug gang.
State investigators said they believed that high-ranking officers of the Nocupétaro police had been involved in the attack. They are still looking for four other men in connection with the shooting, among them the commander of the town police, Alberto Hernández, who is not related to the victims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/international/americas/09mexico.html
Well --- Bush did say their "family values" don't stop at the Rio Grande.
This lunacy has me so PO'd.
Madison Nebraska would be more rural:
Nebraska court sentences man to death for slayings of five
11/10/2004 03:46:52 PM
MADISON, Neb. (AP) -- One of four men convicted in a botched bank robbery in which five people were killed was sentenced to death Wednesday, in a courtroom filled with quiet, saddened family members of the victims.
Jorge Galindo, 23, was sentenced by a three-judge panel, which supported a Madison County jury's finding last December that Galindo's crimes merit death in the state's electric chair.
Galindo received five death sentences from the panel -- one for each person killed -- as well as 50 years in prison on each of five weapons counts. He showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
Galindo was convicted of five counts of murder in December for his part in the shooting deaths at a U.S. Bank branch in Norfolk, about 90 miles northeast of Omaha. The Sept. 26, 2002, heist was one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
On Wednesday, Galindo sat at the defense table in a tan, shortsleeved shirt, his face turned to the front of the courtroom.
Behind him, about 50 family members of victims in the killings filled one side of the small courtroom. Some held hands as they filed quietly out after the sentence was read. Many declined to comment afterward.
Dan Elwood, the husband of assistant bank manager Lola Elwood who was shot and killed by Galindo, said the death sentence was what his family had wanted. He declined to comment further.
Coni Johnson, the mother of slain bank employee Lisa Bryant, said she has mixed feelings about the death penalty, but supports with sadness what the judges and jury decided.
"It was like an ugly feeling inside of you to think somebody was going to be put to death," Johnson said.
County Attorney Joe Smith said Galindo's sentence was appropriate, and the judges and jury had done their duty. As the sentence was read, he was thinking about the victims' families, Smith said, his eyes reddening with tears.
Smith said he had been thinking about the sentencing for a long time, as well as the family members who would attend it.
Having to listen to testimony about how their loved ones died has been difficult, he said.
"They've done their duty to their loved ones as well," Smith said.
In their sentencing, District Judges Robert Ensz, Jeffre Cheuvront and Kristine Cecava rejected defense arguments that Galindo's judgment was clouded by methamphetamine and that he had faced pressure from ringleader Jose Sandoval. They agreed with the defense that he had cooperated with police, but said that factor was reduced, in part, by his lack of remorse.
Juries also found Sandoval and co-defendant Erick Vela eligible for the death penalty, and they await sentencing hearings. A fourth man, Gabriel Rodriguez, convicted of acting as a lookout, was sentenced to five consecutive life terms.
Galindo shot Elwood at her desk as he and two other gunmen fanned out at the bank, prosecutors said. Also killed were Evonne Tuttle, a bank customer, and employees Jo Mausbach, Samuel Sun and Bryant.
Surveillance tapes indicate the gunmen were in the bank for only 40 seconds, and no money was taken.
Defense attorney Doug Stratton said he would appeal the sentence on a number of constitutional issues raised during Galindo's trial.
Nebraska is the only state with electrocution as its sole means of execution. Lawmakers have been debating whether to switch to death by injection.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/10/news/latest_news/b776411dd533b5db86256f480077a5b9.txt
CWOJackson: I don't like apples.
LOL! Just one small portion of the funniest post I've read all day.
He was on it like a donkey on a waffle, right out of the gate. Nobody puts that much effort into pre-emptive damage control if there isn't any "there" there.
So much for peaceful, rural areas.
I can guarantee you, shit like this continues, and things *will* get ugly fast. I personally know of more than a few, that had enough of this.
Well --- don't get too smug --- you must know about the kidnapping in LA yesterday!
Man Shot After Taking a Hostage at Consulate
Police officer opens fire on an intruder who was threatening to kill a female clerk at the Mexican government offices in L.A.
By Hector Becerra and Richard Winton
Times Staff Writers
November 10, 2004
A man dressed in black and wearing bizarrely worded placards rushed into the Mexican Consulate near MacArthur Park on Tuesday morning, grabbing a pregnant woman as a hostage before a police officer shot him.
Witnesses said the man brandished what appeared to be a gun on the fourth floor of the consulate, shouting demands such as "Call 911; I want the media" to staffers. He then dragged a female clerk down the stairs, past terrified bystanders and out of the building just as LAPD officers were arriving.
TV footage showed the intruder with his arm around the woman's neck, jamming what police said they believed to be a weapon against her back.
About half a dozen officers surrounded the man, who wore a black balaclava and partly obscured signs, portions of which read, "I think … therefore I exist" and "GOP & fans."
Witnesses said the suspect, identified as 19-year-old Manuel Ortiz Gonzalez of Canoga Park, shouted at the officers as he pulled the hostage backward away from police who crept toward him with weapons drawn. A source close to the investigation said Ortiz Gonzalez allegedly screamed: "Don't come any closer or I'll kill" the woman.
A police sergeant from the Rampart Division who was once assigned to a SWAT unit opened fire, striking Ortiz Gonzalez in the head. The suspect fell and the woman ran to the officers.
The incident prompted a citywide tactical alert as hundreds of officers descended on the Westlake district, blocking off traffic within four blocks of the consulate.
With the suspect in custody, SWAT officers swept through the building to make sure there were no accomplices. Police Chief William J. Bratton said he was confident the man acted alone but was unclear about his motive.
As with every officer-involved shooting, police officials said they would conduct criminal and administrative reviews of the incident. But LAPD Assistant Chief George Gascon praised the officers' performance.
"They had no real cover and had to expose themselves to confront him, putting their lives at risk," he said.
The LAPD manual states that police officers should fire only "when it reasonably appears necessary" to protect themselves or others from death or serious injury.
Officials said the gunman did not discharge the weapon. Detectives recovered a revolver but are trying to determine whether it was real or a replica. The suspect was taken to County-USC Medical Center and was listed in critical but stable condition.
The victim was not injured, and police did not identify her. A man who identified himself as the woman's husband, who said he arrived at the scene after hearing from her, criticized security at the building.
"She was an easy target. He went straight for her at her desk," said the man, who would not give his name. "There isn't enough security to stop something like this from happening. I am very angry."
There were as many as 70 people in the building when the gunman entered about 8:30 a.m. Many were there to apply for a matricula consular, an ID card issued by the Mexican government that is accepted as valid identification by some banks, health insurers and airlines.
Police said they learned there was a problem when the victim called 911 and told them that a man had a gun to her head and that he wanted the media to come to the consulate immediately. The gunman grabbed the phone away and repeated what she had said, sources said.
A security guard also called police, telling them there was an armed man with a hostage and possibly several other assailants.
Flavio Ramirez, 48, said he had just arrived to get a permit to drive in Mexico when a stampede of people left the building.
"People were screaming, 'There's an assault going on inside!' " he said.
Ever Davila, 28, was sleeping in his apartment near the consulate when the sound of helicopters and police sirens woke him up.
"I saw the guy coming out of the building all in black with a bunch of signs all over him," Davila said. "He was protesting something, but I couldn't make out what it was."
Gildardo Navarro, 43, said he was serving people at his lunch truck just yards from the building when he realized something was wrong.
"People were running out of the building. I saw that and I left," Navarro said. "He ended up being shot and falling near my truck."
Gladys Sandoval, 28, said the shooting happened in a flash.
"There was a blast, and he went down just like that," Sandoval said. "The woman screamed and ran to the police and they took her away. Then the cops were over the guy with their weapons drawn."
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/ktla-me-hostage10nov10-lat,0,3298778.story?coll=ktla-home-3
All this amnesty talk has them going on some kind of rampage.
A little irony to make you smile.
It was a starter pistol. This guy was probably another illegal, nine cents short of a dime.
If this happens enough, it will eventually get some cops and citizens killed.
He can't be an illegal --- it's said they only come here to work hard and all that. He must be a legal from Mexico.
This kind of thing is done ALL the time back home in Mexico. It has nothing to do with the WOD in the USA --- back home it's common for people to dress up like police and pull you over driving or walking down the street so you'll offer them a bribe. They can pretend to arrest you for jaywalking just to get you to pull out your wallet. And in Mexico the police do the same thing anyway --- it really makes no difference if it's the real police or pretend police.
This isn't America -- it's Mexico moved in.
Assassins? Reminds me of Iraq and the Muslim world in general
Yeah, baby...I can't get enough of our "changing demographics." Drunk drivers and gang tags everydamnedwhere; newsheads lamenting Texas' high child poverty and HS dropout rates, as if there's no context, no real reason; a defacto bilingual city (throw a dart at a map. There's the city!) that was nowhere near it even ten years ago. And now our very own CA/SA-style invasion burglaries. Peachy.
I'm thinking we'll get to a point where "Star Chamber meets Deathwish" becomes the standard MO for lots of fed up locals. Really just a matter of time.
That's up to 39% in the region I'm in. Believe it or not -- but paying Mexican kids to stay in school is being done in this area. Imagine being Mexican --- you get a check from the government if you just show up at school!
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