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One of the two men arrested in the rape of an 11-year-old girl was denied bond...this morning. Juan Hernandez-Monzalvo...said little, through a translator. He was appointed a public defender and was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim. DNA links rape suspect to second attack 2 men confess to rape of 11-year-old girl Hernandez-Monzalvo was on suicide watch yesterday and did not go before a judge. Hernandez-Monzalvo, 24, is facing several charges including kidnapping and raping a child younger than 13, which is punishable by life in prison. A second man, Richard Morales-Marin, 23, is also charged with...

Prince William County police arrested a Manassas area man Monday for raping a 24-year-old developmentally disabled woman, according to spokesperson Erika Hernandez. Brayan Migdanio Bustillo Fuentes, 21, 9933 Portsmouth Rd., was charged with rape and is being held without bond in the Prince William-Manassas Adult Detention Center. At approximately 1 p.m. Monday, the police began investigating a rape that occurred at Fuentes’ address . The investigation revealed that the victim was walking in the neighborhood when she passed the accused’s residence. The accused, who knew the victim, coerced her to go with him and then raped her. An illegal immigrant...

Law enforcement authorities have identified the woman whose battered body was found after she was tied to a vehicle and dragged for more than a mile. The woman, Luz Maria Franco Fierros, 49, a fast-food worker whose body was found Monday, was identified by her fingerprints matched to Mexican voter registration records. Her live-in boyfriend, José Luis Rubi-Nava, is in jail, accused of killing Ms. Franco Fierros.

A three-day sting by federal agents nets suspected sex offenders in the L.A. area. As part of a crackdown to deport foreign nationals who prey on children, federal agents arrested 25 suspected sex offenders in a three-day sting operation in the Los Angeles area, officials said Thursday. Eleven of the suspects were found to be living in the Los Angeles area illegally, officials said. The other 14 were legal permanent residents but face deportation for their criminal convictions. "These pedophiles pose a serious threat to the well-being of our children, our families and our communities," Robert Schoch, special agent-in-charge for...

SILER CITY, N.C. -- A Chatham County man was charged with DWI twice in a span of about 20 minutes early Sunday morning, authorities said. The incident started when a man was stopped in Siler City for speeding and driving left of center. A Chatham County deputy found evidence that suggested the driver was intoxicated and the man was arrested. The man's car, a 1991 Honda Civic, was left at the scene. The 18-year-old driver was released into the custody of his mother. About 20 minutes later, the deputy went back to check on the Honda and to conduct a...

TIJUANA, Mexico - The body of a U.S. citizen kidnapped nearly three weeks ago has been found in Tijuana by police, who said he had been beaten, strangled, stripped naked and stashed in the trunk of a car. Investigators said Saturday that they found the remains of George Kwok Choi Chu, a seafood wholesaler who worked in Tijuana but lived across the border in San Diego, on Friday morning. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City identified the victim simply as George Chu. Chu was kidnapped April 11 in front of his business near downtown Tijuana, according to the embassy. It...

City JournalThe Illegal-Alien Crime WaveWhy can’t our immigration authorities deport the hordes of illegal felons in our cities?Heather Mac Donald Winter 2004 Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who...

Irvine Three cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad drew about 300 peaceful protesters to UC Irvine on Tuesday night outside a forum that at times sparked free-wheeling shouting matches and audience ejections by police. The free public forum, co-sponsored by a Republican student group at UCI and a self-described conservative student group in Burbank, featured the unveiling of images that for weeks have sparked rioting and deaths in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries. The images originally were published by a Danish newspaper.

This past fall, after three successive weeks of rioting in France by predominantly Muslim youths, the violence ebbed, albeit to an uneasy level in excess of the early October 2005 “baseline” before the riots. For example, about 60 cars per night continued to be burned as of December 8, 2005, and the number soared to 425 New Year’s Eve 2006, in “troubled,” i.e., Muslim neighborhoods. Then on New Years Day, teenagers of Arab Muslim origin, rampaged through a train between Nice and Lyon, intimidating and robbing passengers, and allegedly assaulting at least one young woman, sexually, prompting the creation of...

Mother raped at gas station Suspect description: Latino male, age 35 to 40, 6 feet, 1 inch, muscular build, short black hair and brown eyes By Lisa Rosetta The Salt Lake Tribune This is a police sketch of the rape suspect. A woman who stopped at a Cottonwood Heights gas station around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday was raped on a restroom floor as she held her 1-year-old son in her arms and her 3-year-old daughter looked on. The 21-year-old woman stopped at the Phillips 66 at 2235 E. Fort Union Blvd. after her daughter said she needed a restroom, said Salt...

Rowdy revelers in France torched 425 vehicles overnight in scattered New Year's Eve unrest that has become an annual problem in troubled neighborhoods, the national police chief said Sunday. Last year, 333 cars were burned. Police Chief Michel Gaudin also said there were no major clashes this year between youths and police overnight, as had been feared. In what has become an annual tradition every New Year's Eve, youths set several hundred cars ablaze in France as festivities get out of hand. Police were especially cautious this time because of the wave three weeks of rioting and car burning that...

Would-Be Robbery Victim Fights Back POSTED: 6:02 am EST December 29, 2005 UPDATED: 2:54 pm EST December 29, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. -- Two suspected robbers got more than they bargained for Wednesday night when their intended victim fought back and wounded one of them, police said. Damian Powell was headed to an apartment on Farrington Drive, off Six Forks Road in north Raleigh, at about 8 p.m. Wednesday when two teens approached him, police said. One of the teens flashed a gun, and they demanded money, police said. Powell wasn't about to become a victim. He knocked the gun out...

State Sen. Cathy Stepp released the following statement: Stepp Will Pursue Charges Leaders of a Hispanic activist group known as Voces de la Frontera believe that in America, it is better to storm the home of an elected official and yell in their windows after dark to intimidate someone rather than to run for office to change policy. On the evening of Friday, December 16th, a group of people advocating the issuing of drivers’ licenses to non-citizens appeared outside my windows yelling and attempting to intimidate me into voting against Assembly Bill 69. AB 69 requires that a person applying...

Studies suggest high rate has link to illegal migrants Arizona consistently has one of the nation's highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes. And some statistical evidence suggests the state's large number of illegal immigrants is one reason. An Arizona Daily Star analysis of nearly 10,000 fatal crashes in the state from 1994 through 2004 found that drivers left the scene in 5.6 percent of the accidents. That's a higher rate of hit-and-runs than in any state except California. Just in 2004, 77 people in Arizona died in hit-and-runs. Over the past decade, half of Arizona's fatal hit-and-runs involved pedestrians —...

The Mexican immigrant involved in a wreck that killed a Mint Hill teenager acknowledged Saturday he is in the country illegally and had drunk six beers before the crash. Jorge Hernandez, 35, expressed surprise when told by an Observer reporter that a young man had died in the Interstate 485 wreck. "I didn't know that happened," said Hernandez, reached by phone in his hospital room. "I didn't know. I feel very sad." Hernandez had been driving a Ford Expedition against traffic for several miles at speeds topping 100 mph when he smashed into a Nissan 350z driven by Min Chang,...

Back to Story - Help 2 Arrested in British Policewoman's Death 41 minutes ago Police hunting the killers of a policewoman in northern England on Monday arrested two men in the south Wales town of Newport.Gwent Police said they arrested Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 24, who has been identified as a suspect in the slaying of Constable Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford last month. They did not identify the other man arrested, except to say that he is 23.The arrests came at the end of a two-day operation in the Maindee area of Newport, where police from the Gwent and North...

The average North Carolina resident probably assumes that local, state and federal governments are better coordinated to fight terrorism today than they were before the Sept. 11 attacks four years ago. But the case of Gilberto Cruz Hernandez -- illegal Mexican immigrant accused in a series of rapes -- suggests otherwise. On his third try at illegal immigration, the 24-year-old Hernandez hit the jackpot in the Piedmont Triad, settling with unnerving ease into the mundane fabric of everyday life. He landed a job at a Greensboro printing company and earned $44,000 a year. Last year, the same federal government that...

<p>A couple asleep in their bed were killed yesterday when a sport utility vehicle careened off a rain-slicked road in Egg Harbor Township and crashed into their home, coming to rest atop the bed.</p> <p>The 1993 Chevy Blazer veered off U.S. 40 just outside Atlantic City, knocked down a speed limit sign, crossed a sidewalk and punctured the exterior wall of the one-story house about 4:30 a.m., police said.</p>

Two men, who authorities believe were trying to smuggle two women and a child into the U.S. from Brazil, were arrested in Costa Mesa on Thursday) The federal government may file charges against two men who were arrested Thursday on suspicion of kidnapping. Immigration authorities believe the pair may have attempted to smuggle two women and a child into the United States from Brazil. Costa Mesa police arrested Reynaldo Eid Jr. , 46, of New York City and Alaor Docarmo Olivera Jr., 51, of Danbury, Conn., at 10 p.m. Thursday at the Travelodge in the 1900 block of Newport Boulevard,...

Illegal aliens charged with making fake IDs Monday, November 21, 2005 RANDLEMAN — Two men authorities said are illegal aliens were charged with making fake IDs, the Randolph County Sheriff's Office reported today. On Friday, sheriff's investigators searched a home at 380 Kings Ridge Road in Randleman. They found fraudulent IDs including Social Security cards, alien resident cards, Hispanic marriage certificates, passports, tax identification cards, fictitious drivers license and a forged inspection sticker, according to the sheriff's office. Also seized was computer equipment including printers and scanners, laptop computers, a typewriter, Polaroid camera, a heating machine, laminator, adhesive and several...