Posted on 01/25/2008 3:53:43 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
A Mexican national wanted by United States Marshals in connection with the New Year’s day stabbing death of a 22-year-old Mexican man in Seguin, Texas has been arrested at a Bartlesville motel.
According to Bartlesville Police Chief Tom Holland, the suspect, 28-year-old Juan Manuel Garcia, was apprehended around midnight last night at a motel in the 2300 block of Washington Boulevard.
According to an affidavit filed by Bartlesville police, local authorities received a call from Tulsa Police on Thursday afternoon advising that they had information that a man wanted for first-degree murder in Texas had placed a phone call from a Bartlesville hotel room. After contacting U.S. Marshals, BPD was informed that they had been monitoring a Texas phone number and that around 7 p.m. a call had been placed to that number from the local motel. The motel owner confirmed to authorities that there were two Hispanic males staying in the room.
“Our special operations team made entry to the motel room around midnight last night,” Holland told the Examiner-Enterprise early Friday.
“We made entry to the room and set off a flash bang.”
A flash bang is a stun grenade designed to disorient, but not injure and give officers an edge.
Holland said Garcia didn’t give officers any problems and even confessed who he was.
“He said I’m the guy wanted out of Seguin, Texas,” Holland said.
“We hear he’s good at construction and had worked a job in Arkansas before coming to Bartlesville to do construction.”
According to published reports in the Sequin Gazette-Enterprise, the murder occurred in the early hours of Jan. 1.
The victim, Ismael Araujo, was pronounced dead shortly after Guadalupe County sheriff’s deputies arrived on scene at approximately 8 a.m.
Sheriff’s deputies and state authorities began seeking Garcia after witnesses on the scene identified him as the suspect. Both the suspect and the victim were reportedly Mexican nationals who were in Seguin working.
According to the Texas affidavit, two witnesses told investigators a fight between Garcia and Araujo broke out between 4:45 and 6 a.m. and witness “described the altercation that took place as due to a fight which had occurred in Mexico between relatives of Ismael Araujo and Juan Manuel Garcia.”
The altercation reportedly began when Garcia hit Araujo, knocked him down and then lunged at him again when he got up. A witness grabbed Garcia to hold him back and noticed he had a bloody knife in his right hand. Garcia then brandished the knife at the witness, causing him to let him go.
Witness told Texas authorities that Araujo said, “Come on, they got me already.”
He reportedly died a short time later.
According to reports, deputies were called two or more hours after the incident.
Garcia will be held in Washington County until the U.S. Marshall Service picks him up and transfers him back to Texas.
Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande!
Wondering how many tax dollars were used on the investigation and arrest and how many more will be used to house him for the next decade or so. Compare that with how many fewer tax dollars it would have taken to just build the fence to keep those two out.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
But he’s good at construction!/s
Note left at the border-
OK! We’ll release him into your custody now, and you take him back and to make sure he doesnt come back, we’ll start shooting to kill all who pass the border illegally that we find.
Hope you don’t mind, but we weren’t sure WHICH killer you wanted, so we just rounded up 4,000 illegals and threw them into a connex.
Best of luck!
Wow! I went to high school in Bartlesville and my mother still lives there. Small world.
ping
He’s just killing people that Americans won’t...well you know the rest. Build the friggin wall! And btw, the RNC sent me a donation letter today. I’m sending them back (at their expense) Jorge Bush dollars in return. Viva the RNC!
LOL! So true.
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