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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Maybe they get more lenient when threads get real long or they see the hour of the night people are posting their debate. Probably most of us sometimes have that "wish I wouldn't have posted that" feeling.
That statement is so incoherent and moronic it leaves me speechless. Have you taken your meds this morning?
Their inalienable rights? To what, suck the AMERICAN taxpayer dry?
"I hope they do become armed..."
Despicable...and shows your true intentions. A true Bushbot free traitor...no matter what the cost.
I knew you were joking :-)) My hubby's parents farmed around Wausau. And we DO live in Green Bay, breathlessly awaiting the dedication of the new Lambeau.
But as far as Madison goes, it's really another world, an alternate reality. I do like going there once in a while and just watch the people on State St. It's a zoo.
If Steven King hasn't written it yet, perhaps he will write a gothic horror tale of "dead seed corn" -- seed which produces a bounty crop, yet everyone who eats of it becomes one of the "undead"!
So one supposes that makes these border vigilantes "illegals." ;-)
No, we are a Christian nation. We do not shoot unarmed economic refugees because we dislike how our liberal politicians cater and pander to those who need their labor.
No reason NOT to arrest them and deport them though!
Again, if people are going to have felonies committed against them for committing misdemeanors, then maybe they need to carry arms in order to defend their inalienable rights from these criminal gangs who are infringing upon them.
I would welcome the illegals to carry arms: then perhaps the doofuses in Washington would wake up and realize WE ARE BEING INVADED AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE!!!! If the illegal flood continues, then either we lose control of our own nation, or it will come to another war with Mexico!
On many levels, if a law is not being enforced by those whose job it is to do so, then the fault belongs to the voters.
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