Here’s a couple new articles about the tragedy Terry is talking about. As Terry says, “WHERE is Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on this??”
It just gets worse and worse. Looks like they’re MS-13 machete attack types.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf? /base/news-12/1186893631111330.xml&coll=1
The 10 towers that make up the Ivy Hill Park apartments soar above western Newark like a city within a city. Home to 10,000 people, it is New Jersey’s largest privately owned apartment complex, an affordable haven for working-class families since the 1950s.
Residents call it a “little United Nations,” a place where kids from Central America play with kids from Sri Lanka, where Bangladeshis mix with Jamaicans, Ukrainians with Brazilians, whites with blacks.
It’s the kind of place, residents say, where serious trouble is still rare enough that it stands out.
José Lachira Carranza and his small band of friends stood out.
Residents say the group, which included at least three teenage boys, drank beer and smoked marijuana in the hallways of the 14-story towers and in the playground of the nearby Mount Vernon School.
In recent months, they turned to strong-arm robbery, ordering passers-by to hand over cash, residents said.
A week ago yesterday, that same group is alleged to have done far worse, shooting four college-bound friends in the back of their heads behind the Mount Vernon School. Three of the four died.
Carranza, 28, and two of the teens have already been charged in the killings.
Yesterday, as the victims were laid to rest and as authorities continued to hunt for others involved in the case, residents described how Ivy Hill Park became the tie between the disparate suspects, the place where they met and allegedly forged a bond through crime.
The residents portrayed Carranza and his cohorts as chronic troublemakers with apparent ties to MS-13, a Central American gang with a growing foothold in Ivy Hill Park. [snip]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/nyregion/11bar.html
“He just went berserk,” said Mr. Torres, who said on Friday that he was injured as he and two other men tried to restrain Mr. Carranza. (Family members and friends had given Mr. Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru, the nickname Shaka Zulu, after the African warrior, according to Mr. Torres and others.)
Mr. Carranza was arrested that night, Oct. 1, 2006, on charges of aggravated assault, and later freed on $150,000 bail. He was still awaiting trial in that case and on an unrelated charge of sexual abuse of a child when he was arrested again this week in connection with last Saturday’s brutal gun and machete attack on a group of students in a Newark playground, which left three dead and another hospitalized with a bullet wound to the face.[snip]
http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=7543&z=1
Case of Slain Newark Students Raises Questions About the Justice System...Who is it Protecting?
Monday, August 13, 2007 - Millennium Radio
The case of Jose Carranza, the 28 year old Peruvian immigrant charged in the execution-style slayings of three college students in Newark on August 4, has exposed gaps in the legal system and has raised the question of whether every possible step was taken to protect the public from a dangerous man.
Carranza is an illegal immigrant, but his status wasn’t known until he was charged with the triple murders of Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20, and Iofemi Hightower, 20. Carranza was arraigned Friday on murder, attempted murder, weapons and other charges and ordered held on $1 million bail. Officials at the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office had believed Carranza was in the United States legally. For reasons that remain unclear, his legal status wasn’t determined even though he had been arrested multiple times for serious crimes.
He was arrested in January and May stemming from allegations he repeatedly molested a girl. He was indicted in July on 31 counts in connection to the child rape case. However, federal immigration authorities in Newark say their office wasn’t contacted about Carranza.
In an interview about the case with Millennium Radio, New Brunswick immigration attorney John Allen said local authorities do have the means to determine in an individual is in the country legally.
“They have the resources at their disposal. It may come down to an issue of whether there is proper training at various police departments throughout the country,” Allen said. The federal government encourages, but does not require, local authorities to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, when they arrest someone who they suspect to be in the country illegally. “Theoretically, the way the laws are written now they should be obligated to contact federal authorities if there is an issue there,”
Allen said.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office told Millennium Radio it’s policy is to report an illegal alien to ICE after a defendant has been tried, convicted, and sentenced. Otherwise, the defendant could be deported before proper justice is meted out. However, it appears more likely that the federal government would argue in favor of detainment, not deportation, for someone facing trial on serious charges.
“It’s very common day to day in the federal court system that violent criminals are detained without bail at our request,” Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, told the Star-Ledger. “If the judge agrees with us that they represent a danger to the community, those defendants are detained.”
In the case of Jose Carranza, had federal authorities known of his illegal status they could have argued at his bail hearings in the child rape case that he be detained pending prosecution. After both arrests Carranza posted bail. With the help of a bail bondsman, he posted $150,000 bail in January after the bail had been lowered by the judge from $200,000. After his May arrest, bail was set at $300,000, eventually lowered to $150,000, and then the judge allowed the earlier bond to cover that amount. Carranza was released after three weeks in jail.
On Saturday, August 4th, prosecutors allege he took part in the execution-style slayings of three of Newark’s brightest young success stories.
Some contend there are no guarantees the federal government will respond to local authorities when dealing with an illegal immigrant.
In an interview with the Star-Ledger, Mark Ali, head of the Essex County Prosecutor’s child abuse unit, said, “In 19 years, I have called immigration maybe a dozen times, and not once have they come to put a detainer or arrest someone.” He said the attitude of immigration officials is: “Call us when he is convicted.”
In a Millennium Radio story which aired earlier this summer, local mayors complained they get no help from federal authorities in controlling illegal immigration. One mayor, speaking anonymously because of the controversial nature of his comments, said if his police rounded up all illegal aliens within his municipality’s borders and bring them to a federal detention center, they would be told to take them back.