Posted on 09/22/2007 8:41:56 AM PDT by radar101
PHOENIX – A pregnant woman fended off a would-be thief with a pocket knife in Gilbert and later said the man had “messed with the wrong girl.”
Tracy Mann, a 21-yearold who said she is three months’ pregnant, was walking home from work at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday when she spotted a truck parked with its door open and no one inside.
Mann became suspicious and pulled out her pocket knife.
That’s when a man appeared and asked Mann for a cigarette and then to borrow her cell phone. Mann said she didn’t answer him either time and kept walking, but had flipped open the knife’s blade.
The man then grabbed her purse and started pulling it along with Mann.
Mann then fought back with the knife. “He was just tugging me and the purse, and I just started slashing at him,” she said.
Mann said she didn’t stop slashing until the man let her go and ran away. Mann followed him up an embankment of rocks to an awaiting truck so she could write down the license plate number.
Mesa police found the truck a short time later in Mesa and arrested Filemon Del Hoyo, 18, Abel Lorenzo Reyes, 18, and Isidro Mendoza, 22, all of Mesa.
Police say Del Hoyo was the one who tried to grab Mann’s purse. He was taken to a local hospital and underwent surgery for knife wounds. He faces attempted robbery charges, and Reyes and Mendoza face conspiracy to commit robbery.
Del Hoyo, an illegal immigrant, had been arrested last month on third-degree burglary and underage drinking charges. He was sentenced to probation and was voluntarily removed from the country on Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vinnie Picard said.
That means Del Hoyo illegally re-entered the country between Monday and Thursday.
Del Hoyo was discharged from the hospital Friday and brought to jail.
YAY, Tracy!! You go, girl.
Good for her. Protecting her baby as well.
The only bad thing about this is that it’s dollars to donuts that the perps will soon be let loose without punishment, that they will reenter the US again if they are deported, and that next time this budding young criminal goes after an innocent victim, he will probably carry a knife of his own.
Tracy has some street sense........good for her ~!
We here at FR are shocked... shocked we tell you!
maybe no knife....the perp has been traumatized and will hire some lib/dem lawyer to sue the woman for violating the perp’s right to assault her!!!
In most northeastern states she’d have been arrested for carrying a weapon.
And the hospital bill was paid for by...YES! The taxPAYERS.
Please, bring on hitlarycare < /sarc >
Sounds like a daughter that we would have raised. Smart, savvy, determined, competent. The best of both of us, wouldn’t THAT have been some kid!
This gal - I like her already.
There are folding knives which use a utility knife blade which are well built, lock open, and would work pretty well for this type of defense.
I'd think a D.A. would have a tough time putting someone away for something with only an inch or so of exposed blade, especially if she said she used it at work opening boxes and claimed she used it to defend herself only because she did not have anything else.
Wow, that website should win some kind of award for annoying use of html. All they need is to add some loud, irritating music as background.
She should sue the government.
Arizona Senate Bill 1145
Signed into Law 2006
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 13, chapter 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-418, to read:
START_STATUTE13-418. Justification; use of force in defense of dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicles; presumption
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person is justified in using physical force or deadly physical force against another person if the person reasonably believes himself or another person to be in imminent peril of death or serious bodily injury and the person against whom the physical force or deadly physical force is used was in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or had unlawfully and forcefully entered, a dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle, or had removed or was attempting to remove another person against the other person’s will from the dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle.
B. A person is presumed to be acting reasonably if the person is acting against another person who unlawfully and forcefully enters or entered the person’s dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle, except that the presumption does not apply if:
1. The person against whom physical force or deadly physical force was used has the right to be in or is a lawful resident of the dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle, including an owner, lessee, invitee or titleholder, and an order of protection or injunction against harassment has not been filed against that person.
2. The person against whom the physical force or deadly physical force was used is the parent or grandparent, or has legal custody or guardianship, of a child or grandchild sought to be removed from the dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle.
3. The person who uses physical force or deadly physical force is engaged in an unlawful activity or is using the dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle to further an unlawful activity.
4. The person against whom the physical force or deadly physical force was used is a law enforcement officer who enters or attempts to enter a dwelling, residence or occupied motor vehicle in the performance of official duties and the officer identified himself as an officer or the person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer.
C. A person has no duty to retreat before threatening or using physical force or deadly physical force pursuant to this section.
Of course, you don’t care because the jackass came right back in a couple days due to our invisible fence.
“Del Hoyo, an illegal immigrant, had been arrested last month on third-degree burglary and underage drinking charges. He was sentenced to probation and was voluntarily removed from the country on Monday, “
Boy Bush sure has those borders on lockdown. It really is sheer luck that we haven’t been hit by another big attack with how wide-open our southern border is.
“Del Hoyo, an illegal immigrant, had been arrested last month on third-degree burglary and underage drinking charges. He was sentenced to probation and was voluntarily removed from the country on Monday, “
Boy Bush sure has those borders on lockdown. It really is sheer luck that we haven’t been hit by another big attack with how wide-open our southern border is.
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