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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And that is the *bottom line*, that many choose to ignore.....
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.
138 posted on 08/07/2003 10:14 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
155 posted on 08/07/2003 10:27 PM PDT by breakem
Well this guy obviously can't point out a single instance on this forum where he has spoken out against aliens crossing our borders illegally.
It's abundantly clear why posts such as this one litter the forum in place to direct responses on point.
I have seen no indication that the invaders were one-time offenders.
The military ought to be on the borders preventing most of this, if only to protect Americans who are victimized by these pests. Those who got busted for busting the invaders are victims of the loathsome illegals, IMO.
Yes.
See #152. What was it you said earlier...Try to keep up?
You Reformers sure are bitter and vengeful.
And I have seen no indication that the immigrants were repeat offenders, either. I was basing my statement upon the math, since the vast majority of cases are indeed misdemeanors.
I knew you were a RINO Socialist! How you gonna do that Tancredo Fan? Minimum wage of 15$ an hour?
More than many. Most. Democracy works.
ROFLMAO........how utterly UNORIGINAL you are.
Please point me to a post that you did not employ effeminate font colorings.
Spencer, Simcox and those Ranch Rescue yahoos are victims, eh?
Not only this you've tried to morph this to Koby, Reform, bitterness and anything else you can think up other than address the illegalities committed by illegal aliens. That is the general topic of this thread, as related to infractions by US citizens in response to illegal aliens coming across our borders.
The illegalities of our citizens will be judged by a court. The illegalities of the illegal alien are not being addressed. We have upwards of 13 million illegals within our borders now. That should be of concern to you. That you don't care says volumes about you.
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