Posted on 08/24/2013 2:43:56 PM PDT by rickmichaels
There was nothing to set off alarm bells about a traffic stop in Ottawa on Aug. 16.
But what began as routine turned into the arrest of American gangster Manuel Falcon-Lopez, who was on the lam from attempted murder and other charges.
He was a passenger in the backseat of a run-down car, with Ont. plates, that didn't have all of its lights working properly.
Yet as red flags began piling up for police, Falcon-Lopez was calm and collected.
"He was so relaxed, he was so cool," recalled Ottawa police Const. Nermin Mesic, who told the fugitive he was under arrest. "The entire time from then on, he's 'Oh yeah man, no problem.'"
Mesic wouldn't find out until the next day who he really had in custody, a suspected member of the Dominicans Don't Play, who had a New Jersey warrant out for his arrest for more than two years.
It was about 8 p.m. when Mesic pulled alongside the car as it turned into a gas station along Somerset St.
It began as nothing more than a vehicle check, with Mesic planning to remind the driver of Highway Traffic Act rules.
He casually asked him to pull to the side.
The driver was sitting next to a woman, and there was a man in the backseat. There was also a baby in the car.
The driver was on conditions from previous criminal charges.
The heavily-tattooed man in the backseat was Falcon-Lopez.
In poor English, Falcon-Lopez tells Mesic he is a tourist, and has been in Canada for nine days.
He has no passport on him, and provides a Dominican Republic ID.
Mesic asks Falcon-Lopez how he entered the country, and he first answered by boat, at Montreal.
While Mesic is checking in with Canada Border Services Agency, Falcon-Lopez changes that answer to bus, claiming he crossed into the country at Syracuse.
CBSA agents checked out passenger passports by boarding the bus, he said.
The red flags are piling up for Mesic, who has already called for a second cruiser to join him.
CBSA has no record of Falcon-Lopez and authorizes an arrest.
Police know traffic stops are unpredictable and dangerous, and officers never really know who they're pulling over.
"I think it shows the initiative and hard work of our officers," said Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau. "The officer had his suspicions and his instincts proved very well. He made the right call."
By all means, return his carcass back to the United States for pampering and a life of leisure in one of our spas we call penitentiaries.
He’ll get three meals plus a snack daily. Plenty of entertainment and all the sex he can handle.
Don’t forget. If he gets Club Gitmo, he has full use of a multi-million dollar soccer field and workout facilities.
Plus his own prayer rug.
He would have never been arrested in the US in a similar stop.
...a suspected member of the Dominicans Don't Play, who had a New Jersey warrant out for his arrest for more than two years.
(end rant)
What??
Tail light out,bored State Trooper,"license and registration","felony warrant out of Georgia"....(or Canada)
I think you lack imagination.
Canada is where all this gang persecution asylum BS was started. Im surprised they didn’t keep him.
>>Tail light out,bored State Trooper,”license and registration”,”felony warrant out of Georgia”....(or Canada)
He wasn’t driving. He was a passenger. Would he have had to show ID or answer questions where you live?
I don't know,I'm not a lawyer.I've been involved in one traffic stop in my life...on I-95 in Virginia,my sister was driving,her son and I were passengers.She got a speeding ticket,the cop said nothing to either passenger and we said nothing to him.A quick,straightforward event.If any of the three people in the car had looked "suspicious" I assume that the cop would have had the right to "question" us...but I could be wrong.
In poor English, Falcon-Lopez tells Mesic he is a tourist, and has been in Canada for nine days.
He has no passport on him, and provides a Dominican Republic ID.
Well, considering he said he was a tourist and been in country of nine days and had no passport...
Asking for an ID, I think would be SOP...except for an American ICE officer
” I assume that the cop would have had the right to “question” us...but I could be wrong.”
You might find this interesting. There are a lot of these on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILqc0DMh84k
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