Posted on 06/08/2005 3:08:22 AM PDT by infocats
BOSTON, June 7 (AP) - On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the border crossing at Calais, Me., carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood.
American customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Mr. Despres. Then they let him into the United States.
The next day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Mr. Despres's hometown, Minto, New Brunswick: the decapitated body of Frederick Fulton, a 74-year-old musician, was found on Mr. Fulton's kitchen floor, and his wife was found stabbed to death.
Mr. Despres, 22, became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and the Fultons. He was arrested April 27 after police officers in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a sweatshirt with red and brown stains.
He is now in jail in Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing.
Bill Anthony, a spokesman for United States Customs and Border Protection, said Mr. Despres, who was born in Canada, could not have been detained because he is a naturalized United States citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.
Mr. Anthony said Mr. Despres was questioned for two hours before he was released.
On the same day Mr. Despres crossed the border, he was due in a Canadian court to be sentenced for assaulting and threatening to kill Mr. Fulton's son-in-law, Frederick Mowat, last August.
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They couldn't make one phone call to his home town police dept during the 2 hours they had him?
I feel so much safer knowing Bush has secured our borders.....
Sounds like the Customs Service did a crack inspection job like the TSA is doing in our airports. We are doomed.
Wait I thought we were supposed to blaim policy makers and not BP agents?
At least they got his finger prints. Now they can put him in a database.
What does this have to do with securing our borders? The suspect is a U.S. citizen.
Take a look around, especially in the North East and you will see people that look simliar crossing all the time.
He had no outstanding warrants in the US. They couldnt legally detain him any longer than they did.
Let's get a grip here people. He IS an American citizen.
I fall for that "Runaway Bride" punked out look every time!
If he crossed at a POE then he was permitted to enter by Custom Border Protection (CBP) not Border Patrol. As he was a US citizen POE inspectors had to admit him.
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Only in the tolerant NE could this pass any kind of smell test. We should pack all official blue staters into the NE states and put an electric fence around them. They can let any terrorists through from Canada they want, but they'll go no further than the fence! Maybe we could begin to patrol the rest of the country then.
I'm not sure that the Red States like Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico are doing too much better in terms of letting illegals into the country!
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