Posted on 06/08/2005 8:40:54 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres.
Then they let him into the United States.
The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton on Fulton's kitchen floor. His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.
Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27 after police in Mattapoisett 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 next month.
At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the country?
Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.
Anthony said Despres was questioned for two hours before he was released. During that time, he said, customs agents employed ``every conceivable method'' to check for warrants or see if Despres had broken any laws in trying to re-enter the country.
``Nobody asked us to detain him,'' Anthony said. ``Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up. . . . We are governed by laws and regulations, and he did not violate any regulations.''
``Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a chain saw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint.''
Gregory Despres
I guess neither is being an Islamic extremist or an illegal alien.
So what do you want them to do? Deny re-entry to a U.S. citizen who wasn't breaking any laws?
Same look as Charles Manson!!
Ping.
Reported on the news this am, the guy showed a driver's license, but one digit was obscured, so the clerk entering the number simply tried one number after another until she got a hit. Bingo. He was wanted by the mounties for murder.
"a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood"
"``Nobody asked us to detain him,'' Anthony said."
Government employee response.
That's how they caught him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418631/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418664/posts
Why do his eyes remind me of Jennifer Wilbanks?
I guess carrying a chainsaw, guns etc. does not qualify to be detained. Whoaaaa......what security department we have got?
Posted here with 98 replies and pictures:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418234/posts
And here with 14 replies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418664/posts
Every day, citizens in this country have their rights violated for far less by jerks who aren't fit to wear a uniform.
Even if they only suspected there was blood on the chainsaw, they had the power to detain him until lab tests were completed. Reasonable suspicion.
So, now are we supposed to search the entire web for every possible permutation of a headline to be sure that no one here has posted the story before?
I did due diligence. But thanks for providing the links to the other posts.
AM, pull this one if need be.
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