Posted on 08/07/2003 8:27:02 PM PDT by AZ GRAMMY
Second arrest made in immigrant incident
BY LOUIE VILLALOBOS, Staff Writer Aug 7, 2003
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Yuma County sheriff's deputies have arrested a second man in connection with the alleged unlawful detention of six illegal immigrants on July 31 in Gadsden.
Alexander David Dumas, 26, was arrested Tuesday evening after driving to Yuma from his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif., for an interview, said sheriff's spokesman Lt. Eben Bratcher.
Dumas was charged with six counts of aggravated assault and five counts of unlawful imprisonment following the early morning July 31 incident where deputies said he and Matthew Paul Hoffman, arrested on the same charges on Monday, detained a group of six illegal immigrants that had just entered the United States through the Colorado River.
A third man, Martin Hoffman Jr., was with the two suspects but won't be charged because he was not armed and did not take part in the handcuffing of the illegal immigrants, Bratcher said.
Bratcher said the department will continue to investigate the case and warned citizens against taking the law into their own hands.
He said anyone who sees a group of suspected illegal immigrants should call the Border Patrol, and not take it upon themselves to apprehend the group by using guns and handcuffs. Asking a group to stay put while making a phone call is permitted and would constitute a citizen's arrest, he said.
"When you have someone holding someone against their will with the use or the threat of the use of force, you've crossed the line between a citizen's arrest and unlawful detention," he said. "There was no justification for the use of force."
Deputies said the two men handcuffed five members of the group, which included three children and two women, and held them at gunpoint until U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived.
Agents have said they were dispatched to the scene when a surveillance camera operator noticed the incident unfolding. The agents called the sheriff's department, who then identified and interviewed all three men before letting them go, officials said.
Bratcher said the men are not believed to be part of a larger group, such as the citizen patrol groups that operate on private property along the Tucson border and use various forms of technology to alert Border Patrol agents to the presence of illegal immigrants in the area.
Also being charged with five counts of endangerment is a 16-year-old Mexican national who Bratcher said was paid $600 to bring the illegal immigrants into the United States. Bratcher also said the illegal immigrants were planning to meet with a taxi cab in Gadsden and were to be taken to a unidentified Yuma hotel, according to interviews done of the illegal immigrants by detectives.
William Robbins, Border Patrol spokesman, said the six illegal immigrants were in the agency's custody as of Wednesday morning but couldn't be interviewed.
Hugo Oliva, Mexican consul in Yuma, said the group was in good condition following the incident and that his office is encouraged by the sheriff's department's efforts regarding this case.
"This is a very disturbing thing to happen here," Oliva said. "We can't have people with guns do the job of law enforcement agencies."
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Since we decided to personalize the discussion, are you a member of the American National Socialist Libertarian Greens Party? A Klu Klux Klan? A member of an illegal militia? A Christian-Identity?
I wasn't aware that they had to be registered with you.
Smart? Yes. Ass? You.
Are you a coyote, a profiteer on this mess or a member of La Raza, Hermandad Nacional or some other advocacy group?
Since we decided to personalize the discussion, are you a member of the American National Socialist Libertarian Greens Party? A Klu Klux Klan? A member of an illegal militia? A Christian-Identity?
122 posted on 08/07/2003 9:58 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
I am a Christian and don't know of any illegal militias. Please name one illegal militia. I'm presently a Reform Party member. I'm also a participant on this forum, participate in it's activites and help out with the FRN. Those are the only organizations I'm affiliated with. Now would you care to address the issue I asked you about?
Which side of the cultural holy war are you on? If you're on the illegal alien side, then you are facilitating illegality through the advocacy of illegal activity. If you're advocating illegal activity, you do not belong on this forum.
In no way do I advocate that people shove guns into the faces of women and children.
He did. You were wrong.
Quit sniping because you missed one. After all, what does a Reformer have to be bitter about? ;)
Boy, that Killchurl Geehodd is a profound thinker. I don't know anybody who advocates that...LOL ;^)
I am just disgusted. Between the Homosexual agenda, Churches going Godless and the swarm of illegals not being addressed pronto.
Taking a detached view (which is generally never recommended when viewing one's own society), the land belongs to those who will follow the will of God.
Since you asked, I am in favor of instituting a bracero-type program again to bring in those who choose to work in North America. Once the work is completed the guest workers are sent home.
There is no nation on the face of the earth named "North America." North America is a continent. In fact, you couldn't "bring in" Mexicans to North America; Mexico is already in North America. Your multicultural slip, in referring to "North America," rather than America, betrays your contempt for American sovereignty.
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