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Illegal immigrant gets 15 years for molesting 13-year-old By Logan G. Carver | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Saturday, April 18, 2009 Story last updated at 4/18/2009 - 1:57 am A district judge on Friday sentenced a Mexican national who entered the country illegally to 15 years in prison for forcing his way into an apartment and assaulting a 13-year-old girl. A Lubbock County jury on Tuesday convicted Julian Vasquez of indecency with a child for the July 2008 assault. Vasquez forced his way into a unit in the Cora Apartments in the 300 block of Avenue U after the girl opened the door...

Holland Township, MI — An illegal immigrant who struck and killed a motorcyclist in a July crash in Holland Township pleaded guilty to negligent homicide Monday, Dec. 29, in Ottawa County Circuit Court. Rodrigo Delacruz-Encarnacion, 25, could face a maximum two-year sentence for the charge. He will be sentenced Jan. 26. William O’Brien, 52, died at the scene when a southbound van driven by Delacruz-Encarnacion turned left into his path as O’Brien drove north on Butternut Drive on July 23. Police said Delacruz-Encarnacion is an illegal immigrant who had found employment at a local blueberry farm and had come to...

The path of destruction and fear stretched at least 5 miles yesterday morning after a 24-year-old man rocketed his car the wrong way on the South Outerbelt. The toll: Seven people injured, including the critically injured driver, Altunar Baltazar. Six vehicles crunched, including the smashed Nissan Maxima that witnesses say other cars were lucky to avoid. "He headed right for us," Columbus resident Robert Crawford said. "It was like he was trying to hit us. He had the pedal to the floor. I knew he was going to clip someone quick." Crawford, who was heading east on I-270, said the...

Five men found slain last week in a north Shelby County apartment were beaten and shocked. Investigators believe that on Aug. 17 - three days before the discovery - the men were beaten and tortured with electric shocks, and their throats were cut, the sheriff said. in a brutal murder-for-hire related to drugs and money, authorities said Tuesday. Four men have been charged with capital murder in the slayings, which Shelby County Sheriff Chris Curry described during a news conference as being connected to a drug organization that transports cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. All the suspects either received or paid...

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A wave of burglaries is spreading across the Washington area, and police say illegal immigrants, hit by police crackdowns and the drop in new construction, are likely playing a key role. “The immigrant community is at a tipping point,” said Montgomery County police community liaison Officer Luis Hurtado. “The poor economy is pushing more immigrants to turn to crime.” In the first five months of this year, burglaries climbed 10 to 20 percent in many jurisdictions. The District of Columbia had the greatest increase, jumping 20 percent from 1,370 in the first five months of 2007...

Boarder gets double life sentence for killing two children by Rudy Larini Saturday March 15, 2008, 6:25 AM John O'Boyle/The Star-Ledger Richard Toledo at his sentencing in Toms River on Friday.Richard Toledo was sentenced Friday to consecutive life prison terms for the bludgeoning murder of two brothers, plus 30 more years the kidnapping of their mother two years ago. Toledo, 23, was sentenced to life without parole for the slaying of 7-year-old Zabdiel Gonzalez and a second life sentence for the murder of his 14-year-old brother, Karlo. Both boys were bludgeoned with a claw hammer in the basement of their...

TOMS RIVER-- Richard Toledo pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping this morning before Superior Court Judge Barbara A. Villano in the claw-hammer murders of two Stafford boys in 2006. Toledo is facing a maximum sentence of 30 years to life in prison for the murder of Karlo Gonzalez, 14 and life without any parole for killing Karlo's brother Zabdiel Gonzalez, 7-years-old. Toledo also is facing a maximum of 30 years in prison for the kidnapping of the boys' mother Wanda Gonzalez. Toledo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, rented a room in the family's home...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A new clause in Virginia Beach city contracts says area businesses must pledge they're not hiring illegal immigrants.Under the new measure, city officials would be allowed to audit companies they believe are breaking the law. The guidelines are set to take effect once City Manager Jim Spore issues clearance to city departments.Some say the move may stop some illegal immigration locally, but won't end it completely.Nevertheless, the city has faced mounting pressure to step up its anti-illegal immigration efforts since last spring. That's when two teenager girls were killed when their car was struck by...

Two men are facing federal drug charges after they were stopped for driving erratically on I-75. Federal agents said Hector Guajardo and Jose Lara admitted they were involved in drug sales. On Aug. 29, Trooper Kevin Hoppe spotted the vehicle on I-75 northbound going into the emergency lane several times. He said the headlights of the vehicle were not on, though it was raining. He said Guajardo was driving, but did not have a driver's license. The trooper said a search of the vehicle revealed 10 kilos of cocaine and three of heroin. Guajardo said each was to be paid...

Charges were filed Wednesday in connection with the kicking death of a Coweta toddler. Michael Hernandez was ordered held in the Wagoner County Jail without bond. He's charged with killing Kelynn Byrd, 2, earlier this month. The toddler's mother was Hernandez's girlfriend. Investigators said after Hernandez and the boy's mother had a fight, she left the house, leaving the child with Hernandez. The victim died from blunt chest and abdominal trauma. Hernandez allegedly confessed to repeatedly kicking Kelynn in the chest. Authorities contacted the Mexican consulate after Hernandez's court appearance because he is in the country illegally.

A 27-year-old Fredonia man on the run from charges in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Sheboygan County had been drinking for several hours prior to the Tuesday crash and is in the country illegally, according to a criminal complaint released Friday. Eddie Carbajal-Lile, whose last known address is 220 Martin Lane, Apt. 2, is charged with hit and run resulting in death, a felony charge that carries penalties of up to 15 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Authorities say he ran a stop sign in the Town of Lima and hit a car with three teenagers inside, injuring...

SAN DIEGO -- An illegal immigrant who ran from a crash that killed his 9-year-old son was is in jail Sunday and facing multiple felony charges, including drunken driving. Marcos Munoz-Sanchez, 33, was booked for several felonies in connection with the accident on westbound Interstate 8 near Texas Street about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, according to California Highway Patrol officers. Alex Munoz, who was a third-grader at Linda Vista Elementary School, was declared dead at the scene of the crash. The boy was asleep in the front seat when his father crashed into the back of a pickup truck parked on...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- A Tennessee State University student died Saturday when another driver broadsided her vehicle on Old Hickory Boulevard. Metro police said 24-year-old Victor Benitez was drunk as he ran a red light at the intersection of Old Hickory Boulevard and Nolensville Road, killing 22-year-old Joycelyn Gardiner. "Just a tremendous young lady, from all accounts, who had all types of potential," said Don Aaron, Metro police spokesman. "According to the witnesses who attempted to render aid to both victims, Benitez smelled strongly of alcohol and was very combative," Aaron said. Investigators said Benitez was drunk and he didn't touch the...

KENOSHA - The man now charged with killing Kenosha County Sheriff's Deputy Frank Fabiano is an illegal immigrant with a long criminal record. Despite a criminal record going back six years, Ezeiquiel Lopez was never deported. Only after he was charged with killing Fabiano did anyone try to have him kicked out of the country. Lopez, 44, is accused of murdering the 17-year sheriff's department veteran while high on cocaine. Lopez's history with the law dates back to 2001, when he was arrested in Utah for lewd and lascivious conduct. In 2003, he was arrested in Texas on a gun...

If Luciano Melendres had been deported to Mexico following his 2006 arrest for driving drunk – or even if a judge last week hadn't suspended his six-month jail sentence and given him 12 months probation – Dacus Lamont Sims, 32, would be alive today.

VIRGINIA BEACH – A man accused of killing two high school students Friday night in a car crash has a substantial record of alcohol-related convictions in both Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. Alfredo Ramos, charged with manslaughter in the Friday deaths of Allison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16, was convicted this year of DUI in Chesapeake and of public intoxication at the Beach.Ramos, who admitted in court Monday that he is in the country illegally, also was convicted in Chesapeake last year of public drunkenness.Two 2007 Chesapeake convictions – a seat belt violation and identify theft – appear not to...

A young Rowan County woman and her unborn baby have died as a result of injuries suffered in a collision Tuesday afternoon with a driver being followed by police. Authorities in Rowan County say the driver was not being chased -- merely followed. The victim was Leanna Newman, 20, of Salisbury. The wreck happened on Main Street in Landis. Police in Landis say the incident began unfolding in Kannapolis, however, where officers say they noticed a red Jeep -- driven by Rigo Berto Guillen Martinez, 33 -- being operated erratically. Police say the Jeep crossed the center line and was...

LANDIS - A pregnant woman and the baby she was carrying died Tuesday night after a head-on collision with a Jeep driven by a man Kannapolis police were following at the intersection of South Main Street and West First Street. Another infant child in the car did not appear injured, officials said Officials did not release their names. They said the woman was eight months pregnant. Reed Linn, Landis Volunteer Fire Department chief, said the wreck occurred about 5:15 p.m. Linn said that after the wreck, the man was pinned underneath the Jeep. Emergency service workers had to use two...

March 31, 2006 -- FEDS BURY $10M MEXICO-GOTHAM RING THAT STASHED COKE IN VIRGIN TOMB STATUES Drug-enforcement agents smashed the mother of all drug rings - a gang of smugglers that hid bricks of cocaine inside tombstones of the Virgin Mary, officials said yesterday. Members of the criminal outfit that shipped cocaine from Mexico to New York and other American cities would surround the contraband with concrete poured into molds of one of the most revered Catholic icons, agents said.

Princeton University sociologist Douglas S. Massey reports that 62 percent of illegal immigrants pay income taxes (via withholding) and 66 percent contribute to Social Security. Forbes magazine notes that Mexican illegals aren't clogging up the social-services system: only 5 percent receive food stamps or unemployment assistance; 10 percent send kids to public schools. ~~~~snip~~~~ Economist Larry Kudlow praises Hispanic entrepreneurship: "According to 2002 Census Bureau data, Hispanics are opening businesses at a rate three times faster than the national average. In addition, there were almost 1.6 million Hispanic-owned businesses generating $222 billion in revenue in 2002." ~~~~snip~~~~ Total crime and...