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On Thursday, Milford police arrested Tigoberto Orellano-Alonso, 25, after he was witnessed driving erratically on South Bow Street. The Mexican national was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol as well as driving without a license. . . According to a police report, Orellano-Alonso led the arresting officer on a short chase and failed to fully cooperate when stopped. An open container of alcohol was also observed inside the vehicle. . . In light of several recent incidents, it would seem that Massachusetts’ roads have become very dangerous . . Denice was hit and dragged close to a...

Julio Chavez is charged with emptying his revolver into Maurice Parker on May 18, 2007, in Flushing. Chavez then hopped into a SUV, flashed gang signs and yelled in Spanish, former MS-13 gang member Jose Molina said in Brooklyn Federal Court. " 'Yeah, homie, that's how you're supposed to do it,'" Chavez said, according to Molina. "'You see the blood coming out of his head?'" Molina said Chavez then uttered, "The beast has eaten!" Assistant U.S. Attorney Ali Kazemi asked the witness to translate the meaning of Chavez's rant. "That he had just given a soul to the devil," Molina...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - "He ran over my son. He hit him and then he said he felt the impact and he ran over my son. He didn't even stop,” cried Tricia Perez just after the man accused in the hit and run accident that claimed her son’s life stood before a judge. Sergio Herrera Pena pleaded guilty to driving without a license and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Investigators say he was in the U.S. illegally when he hit, then ran over 28-year-old Iraq War veteran Joseph Williams on Boynton Beach Road. in February of 2010....

ALBION — Before her husband was brought into Town Court here Thursday afternoon to answer a charge that he murdered her sister last month, Kimberly Cardenas told reporters, "I want to jump on him and strangle him." She wasn't kidding. After Carlos A. Cardenas was taken out of court following a two-minute arraignment, Kimberly Cardenas bolted from the chamber, ran out of Town Hall and sprinted to confront her husband as sheriff's deputies led him away. Officers and friends restrained Kimberly Cardenas as she screamed at her husband, who told investigators that he stashed his sister-in-law's body in his basement...

“Three illegal aliens will not face charges in connection with the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry,” KOLD CBS News 13 reports, citing a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix: "Based upon an extensive investigation conducted to date, there is no evidence tying these three individuals to the shooting of Border Patrol (BP) Agent Brian Terry. The goal of the ongoing FBI-lead Joint Investigation into that shooting is to achieve justice for BP Agent Terry, and bring criminal charges against those responsible for this murder. We continue to devote significant resources and manpower to this investigation....

MEXICO CITY — Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot Tuesday afternoon, one fatally, in an apparent assault on a highway near the northern Mexican city of San Luis Potosi as they drove a sport utility vehicle with diplomatic license plates. The slain agent was Brownsville native Jaime Zapata, who was on assignment from the office in Laredo, where he served on the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Unit as well as the Border Enforcement Security Task Force. The wounded ICE agent was taken to Ben Taub Hospital, in Houston, said U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a member of the...

MEXICO CITY – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot Tuesday afternoon in the line of duty in Mexico, according to an ICE statement.

Two members of a notorious Central American gang face life in federal prison in a murder-for-hire scheme cooked up over bad blood in Honduras that ended in gunfire in West Columbia, a prosecutor said Friday. Josue Benitez, 22, and Martin Teran, 36, were convicted Thursday after a three-week trial of a hit on Jorge Ramos, U.S. prosecutor Jay Richardson said. Ramos was gunned down while he worked on his car Nov. 2, 2008, in Hendrix Mobile Home Park on Leaphart Road. The MS-13 gang members drove from Houston to South Carolina to carry out the contract killing, Richardson said. Jurors...

MANASSAS, Va. — Authorities say a 37-year-old man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder following a series of shootings in a Virginia suburb of Washington. Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen says Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was ordered deported a decade ago but never left...Two people were fatally shot and two others were hurt about 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Georgetown South neighborhood of Manassas, city police spokesman Sgt. Tim Neumann said. About 20 minutes later, police were called to another home about a quarter-mile away where one person had...

* Victims join growing list of American citizens shot dead in Mexico * Killings will intensify debate over how to combat violence across U.S. border Two American schoolboys were among three teenagers gunned down as they looked at cars in a dealership in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican border. The trio were killed in a hail of bullets in the city which lies just across the border from El Paso, Texas. The brutal killings are the latest in a growing toll of innocent American citizens killed in Mexico and are likely to heighten fears over the spiralling violence across the...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A Somali man who had a child with a North Dakota woman found dead last week has been interviewed as a "person of interest" in her death and the deaths of three others and is being held by U.S. immigration officials, officials said Thursday. Omar Mohamed Kalmio is the father of an infant girl found alive last week in the Minot apartment of 19-year-old Sabrina Zephier, who was found dead Friday, Minot Police Chief Jeff Balentine told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Three Mexican men who turned themselves in to authorities in connection with the 2009 murder of an American teenage girl have been transported to an Arizona jail, authorities said. Officials from the Tucson Police Department said 20-year-old Orel Vasquez, 26-year-old Christian Betza Vasquez and 29-year-old Juan Carlos Leon were taken to the Pima County Jail on Monday, two days after they surrendered to authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. Authorities have said the men are accused of breaking into a Tucson home in August 2009...The men later realized they had entered the wrong house and fled before trying...

Three Mexican men who were wanted for the murder of an American teenager have turned themselves in at an Arizona border crossing point, Reuters reports. U.S. officers tell Reuters that Orel Vasquez, 20, Christian Vasquez, 26, and Juan Leon, 29, turned themselves in

A 2-year-old boy watched his mother get shot to death by MS-13 gang members in a wooded section of Central Islip last year before one of them turned the gun on the crying toddler, killing him, according to federal court papers. The mother, Vanessa Argueta, 19, had taken her young son, Diego Torres, with her on what she thought was a dinner date last February because she didn't have a baby-sitter, the court papers said. Among those who took part in the execution-style killings, according to the federal documents, was the mother's former boyfriend. The account of the killings is...

PHARR — A woman died after she suffered a gunshot wound to the head in Mexico earlier today. The woman, identified as Nancy Davis, 59, was rushed to the hospital after she showed up at the Pharr point of entry with a gunshot wound late Wednesday morning. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers encountered Davis and her husband, Sam, both U.S. citizens. Only Nancy Davis had suffered at least one gunshot wound to the head. She was transported to an area hospital via ambulance. "She arrived at the Pharr point of entry and emergency procedures took over and she was...

BEVIL OAKS - 3 p.m. update - The Texas Department of Public Safety says a man has been arrested on charges of causing a collision that killed a baby and his mother. DPS Sergeant Chuck Havard said troopers found 38 year old Ines Legarda-Quezada, 38, of Sour Lake, at a residence in Winnie at about 3 p.m. Sunday. Havard said doctors are checking out Legarda at Winnie Community Hospital because he was injured in the collision that killed the baby and mother. He'll be taken to jail on a charge of Manslaughter. Bond is set at $750,000. Legarda-Quezada is accused...

MILWAUKEE - An alleged wrong way drunk driver accused of killing a 34-year-old mother has made an appearance in court after being released from the hospital. 41-year-old Leopoldo Salas-Gayton spent Friday morning in the Milwaukee County Jail after having cash bond set at $200,000.

MILWAUKEE - The man who drove the wrong way on New Year's Day at 7:15 a.m. was charged Wednesday. Leopoldo Salas Gaytan, 41, of Milwaukee, faces 25 years behind bars for hitting two cars and killing a woman while driving drunk. His blood alcohol level was .145, nearly twice the legal limit. "I have been in shock. Here I was able to walk away and someone else loses their life," Susan Roedel said. Roedel was driving home from her third shift job New Year's Day when Salas Gaytan is accused of plowing in to her. She survived, but the woman...

A fifth man is in custody in connection with the Dec. 14 fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent Brian Terry near Nogales, the U.S. Marshals office has confirmed.

HARTFORD — A suspect in a double homicide Saturday morning led about a dozen Hartford and state police vehicles on a wild chase late in the afternoon that raced over I-84 into East Hartford, doubled back through the city and ended when the suspect's car engine apparently blew out in West Hartford. Hartford police Saturday night identified the suspect as Jose Medina, 20, of West Hartford. Medina sped into the parking lot of the Prospect Shopping Plaza just off the Prospect/Oakwood exit of I-84, jumped out of the car and ran into the Rainbow clothing store, police said. Pursuing officers...

An illegal immigrant killed his teenage wife in New York while he was free on bail awaiting deportation, police say. Paul Amay, 25, is charged with second degree murder for allegedly strangling his 19-year-old wife Graciela "Gloria" Zhingri Amay outside her parents' Lake Secor home, then dragging her into the house and repeatedly stabbing her in the chest, the Journal News reported. Zhingri's body was discovered about 3 a.m. on Christmas Eve. Amay was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March after he’d served four months of a six-month sentence for driving with a blood-alcohol level more than...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot after he encountered several suspects in southern Arizona, officials announced Wednesday. Agent Brian Terry was killed late Tuesday near Rio Rico, Ariz., according to a statement released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. At least four suspects are in custody and another is still being pursued.

On Sunday, a 4-year-old Mesa boy died at Phoenix Children’s Hospital from massive head trauma. On Friday, his mother left him with her boyfriend, Jorge Busso, 23, when she returned from work, she found the toddler lying in his bed, unresponsive. Detective Steve Berry with the Mesa Police Department said that Busso became enraged after realizing the child had soiled himself. He then allegedly shoved the boy into a corner and whipped him mercilessly with a belt. The police report reads: “The defendant said (he) first spanked him with his hand against the victim’s clothed buttocks. The defendant continued to...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Agents along the Mexican border are watching for the man police think killed 16-year-old Megan Ratliff in a hit-and-run accident Saturday night. The teen’s loved ones said goodbye at a funeral Thursday afternoon, where they said they want the suspect caught. “I can't breathe without her. I don't want to open my eyes anymore because she is not here. … I want the man that did this caught," Ratliff’s mother told 24-Hour News 8 Reporter Jacqueline Policastro. Classmates and family gathered at the small funeral at the Blessings of Love Ministry around noon on Thursday. The victim’s...

HANOVER COUNTY — A small roadside memorial marks the location of a deadly crash that claimed the life of 23-year-old Casey Bohr. "It's a tragedy, it's a DUI fatality and that by itself is tragic this time of year," says Hanover Commonwealth's Attorney Trip Chalkley. Tuesday morning, the suspected drunk driver will appear before a Hanover judge. Prosecutors say Feliciano Suarez is an illegal immigrant and is therefore a flight risk. They plan to oppose bond at the hearing. Chalkley says, " Prosecutors are preparing a list of previous committed other crimes under different names in Central Virginia. We know...

"Salvadoran Immigrant Ingmar Guandique Found Guilty of Murdering D.C. Intern Chandra Levy [12:45 p.m. ET]" That was the breaking news headline that was blasted to my inbox from ABCNews.com regarding today's murder conviction of the suspect in the 2001 murder of the former congressional intern for then-Rep. Gary Condit (D). In the Associated Press story by Matthew Barakat at the ABCNews.com website, there is no mention of the fact that Guandique is an illegal immigrant nor of the fact that he is involved in the ruthless gang Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13. This despite the fact that numerous...

SAN DIEGO — A suspected drunken driver who killed five people when his car slammed into a group of motorcyclists has been released from custody in Southern California.The California Highway Patrol says Carlos Bobadilla of Mexicali, Mexico, was freed Sunday but could still face drunken driving charges when blood tests come back.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday. Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, was killed Sunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house. On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to death along with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11...

With 48 slain in first 6 months of 2010, 2009 toll of 80 may be exceededForty-eight Americans were killed in Mexico during the first six months of 2010 — a deadly pace that appears likely to exceed any previous year of homicides on record, according to the Houston Chronicle's analysis of the U.S. State Department's death registry. The tally doesn't include two Texans reported killed Sept. 30 in separate incidents in isolated areas of Tamaulipas, where the terrorist group known as the Zetas has been warring with their Gulf Cartel rivals in communities all along the Southeast Texas border. A...

ZAPATA — A Texas border sheriff on Thursday said he was calling directly on Zeta operatives to simply produce the body of a missing U.S. citizen believed shot and killed last week by drug gangs on Falcon Lake reservoir. “All we want on this side is a body,” Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said at a news conference here attended by three congressmen and a host of other U.S. officials. Gonzalez said he had made his entreaty privately through channels he could not disclose, but that now he was making his request public so the Zetas — an assassination hit...

SNIPPET: "A Texas college student was shot and killed in Mexico after the bus he was riding on was hijacked by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel, The Brownsville Herald reports. Jonathan William Torres, an 18-year-old college freshman at the University of Texas at Brownsville, was killed Sept. 30 in Matamoros -- just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas -- a university spokeswoman told the newspaper. Torres was reportedly on his way to visit family when his bus was allegedly ambushed by members of Mexican organized crime."

The wife and mother of an American allegedly shot to death by Mexican pirates on a border lake in Texas are angrily demanding that Mexican authorities allow U.S. investigators to join the search for a body -- and stop questioning whether the attack ever happened. Search teams scouring the U.S. side of Falcon Lake have turned up no sign of David Michael Hartley, 30, five days after his wife said he was shot in the head by Mexican bandits marauding on the U.S.-Mexican border lake. Tiffany Hartley, 29, accused Mexican authorities Tuesday of "not looking" for her husband's body and...

Marietta police are looking for a man accused of beating a 27-year-old man to death with a baseball bat during a robbery. Boydrick Powell was killed during a robbery inside his Franklin Road apartment sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. Sept. 18, said Officer Jennifer Murphy with Marietta police. Within a few hours, arrest warrants were issued for Jesus Hernandez-Perez, 28, and Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco, 21, both of Marietta, Murphy said. Hernandez-Perez was arrested two days later and booked into the Cobb County jail, where he is being held without bond and on an immigration hold. But Badillo-Pacheco, aka “Gordo,�...

On Falcon Lake in Zapata County, TX two boatloads of Mexican drug cartel gunmen shot at an American wife and husband as they were riding jet skis, and the man is presumed dead as reported by Lynn Brezosky for San Antonio Express-News. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifrido Gonzalez Jr "says this is his worst nightmare" as reported by Eddie Flores for KRGV: "The one thing I dread on Falcon Lake has happened. The lake is not secure and the border is not secure. We can't go to Mexico, we can't recover the body. We can't investigate, we have to tell the...

One of two men arrested in Monday’s shooting at a packed Lawrence nightclub told police there was an “arrest of alien” warrant out for him when the two allegedly gunned down four people during an apparent birthday party, killing one of them. It is unclear whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was aware that Fernando Guerrero Lara was a suspected illegal alien when he and Johan Saintclair allegedly walked into La Guira Restaurant shortly after midnight and opened fire. A “detainer has been placed on Fernando Guerrero-Lara,” said ICE spokesman Harold Ort, “and we are aware of Johan Manuel Saint...

ACAPULCO, Mexico — A Mexican soldier said that a U.S. citizen attacked an army convoy and was killed when troops shot him in self-defense outside the resort city of Acapulco, a police official said. The man's father said Monday that he found it hard to believe. An army lieutenant told police that Joseph Proctor opened fire on a military convoy with an AR-15 rifle, forcing the soldiers to shoot back, said Domingo Olea, a police investigator in the western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located. Olea provided no further details on Proctor, who was found dead in his car...

A Harris County jail inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge allegedly beat a young illegal immigrant accused of robbing and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl in the back as she was walking home on Aug. 6. Melvin Alvarado, 22, one of two men charged with capital murder in the death of Shatavia Anderson, was beaten Thursday evening, sustaining serious enough injuries to be hospitalized and receive stitches, said Alan Bernstein, of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Accused in Alvarado's beating is Robert Williams, 38, Bernstein said.

My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by an illegal immigrant three years ago while sitting at a stop light. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly. The explosion was so loud witnesses said it sounded like a bomb going off, hit from behind going more than 70 mph. They were tiny, skinny little girls stuffed somewhere in the floorboards when the police and EMT crew arrived. Alfredo Ramos, a previous DUI offender and alcoholic, seemed invisible in a system that was good at looking the other way. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were being accused of being “sanctuary cities” as...

...snip... Two of the nuns -- Sister Charlotte Lange and Sister Connie Ruth Lupton -- remained in critical but stable condition last night; a third -- Sister Denise Mosier -- died at the crash site. ...snip... Saint Gertrude's website reported last night that Sister Charlotte "had some intestine removed and has some internal bleeding" and that Sister Connie "fractured her leg, ankle and wrist," had part of a thumb amputated and suffered internal injuries. Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night for Sister Denise.

The man suspected of drunken driving and killing a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday. The man, Carlos Montano, a county resident, had been arrested by police twice before on drunk-driving charges, and on at least one of those occasions county police reported him to federal authorities. "We have determined that he is in the country illegally. He has been arrested by Prince William County Police in the past," said Officer Jonathan Perok, a police spokesman, who...

NEWPORT BEACH – A man involved in a fatal bicycle crash Thursday was detained at Central Mens Jail after police determined that he had been previously deported, police said. Jose Luis Huerta Mundo, 38, of Garden Grove, was detained on an immigration hold after police contacted Immigration and Custom Enforcement, said Newport Beach Police Sgt. Evan Sailor. Mundo is still in custody, records show.

SAN JUAN - A man wanted in connection with a murder in San Juan was finally arrested. San Juan police caught Pablo Marcos Guerrero after a tip he would be staying at his girlfriend's house in Rio Grande City. Police, U.S. Marshals, and the Starr County Sheriff's Department set up surveillance. They were able to take him into custody Thursday afternoon. Guerrero is the fourth person arrested in connection to the murder of 21-year-old Roberto Hinojosa. Police say he may have planned the murder. Hinojosa was shot to death during a home invasion in the 2100 block of Sunset Drive...

SIERRA VISTA — Few new details on the shooting death of a Cochise County rancher were revealed by a number of newly released sheriff’s office reports in which much information was blacked out with a marker. Robert Krentz was reported missing by relatives March 27 after they lost contact with him while he was out checking wells on his 35,000-acre property northeast of Douglas. His body was found that night by authorities searching the area. While the 56-page file that was released Tuesday contains very little new information, it does provide a timeline of events in the moments just prior...

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - An illegal immigrant charged in the deaths of two teens could make a court appearance on Thursday.According to court documents, a status hearing is scheduled for Feliz Ortega Thursday morning.Ortega is charged with murder for the deaths of 16-year-old Leigh Anna Jimmerson and 19-year-old Tad Mattle.Police say Ortega caused the accident that killed the teens in April 2009.Officers say his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit at the time.His trial is set to start June 21st.

CAPE MAY COURTHOUSE, N.J. (CBS 3) ― Vincent DeSario, 19, died after being beaten with a baseball bat in Wildwood, New Jersey. Alberto Martinez, 28, has been charged with murder after allegedly beating Vincent DeSario, 19, with a wooden baseball bat. According to information released in court, DeSario, of Edison, New Jersey, was in Wildwood on May 10 for a golf tournament.

Omaha police said have arrested three people in connection with the disappearance of an Omaha family. Vanderlei and Jaqueline Szczepanik, along with their 7-year-old son, Christopher, were last seen on Dec. 17. They were living in and working on a church at 16th and Center streets in south Omaha. Police said the three people, who did work for the family, have been accused of using the family's accounts. More than $4,000 was used for food and clothing items, police said. Jose C. Oliveria-Coutinho, 35, Elias Lourenco-Batista, 29, and Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos, 30, have bee charged with unlawful use of a financial...

May 20: Four police officers have been shot, and two have died after a traffic stop in Arkansas escalated. NBC's Jeff Rossen reports two suspects in the incident have also died. WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas - Two West Memphis police officers were fatally shot during a traffic stop on Thursday, and two men suspected in the shooting were killed after a manhunt, according to media reports.

Arizona's newly passed immigration law took heat from President Barack Obama in late April at a campaign style event in Iowa when he said, "Now, suddenly, if you don't have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to get harassed." Either Mr. Obama completely misunderstood the Arizona immigration law that goes into effect in mid-August, or he was blatantly mis-leading the American public on what the law really entails. Unless, an individual is violating a law, for example around an ice-cream shop in Arizona, his or her legal status will not be questioned....

<p>A 17-year-old Mexican faces a maximum penalty of life in prison when he is sentenced for killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in the head, neck and torso in a remote mountainous area. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez pleaded guilty in November to murdering a federal officer near Campo, about 60 miles east of San Diego. He told authorities that he and others were attempting to rob the agent, Robert Rosas.</p>

Had Noel Pumarejo given his wife's murderer a piece of his mind in court today, no one would have faulted him.Instead, speaking at a podium in an emotional Manhattan sentencing, Pumarejo gave the man who'd senselessly stabbed his beloved Sandra a bible and a piece of his soul."God is going to be with you," Pumarejo sobbed, his hand on a boxed bible and his eyes on David Andrango, 32, who slaughtered his wife over $10,000 in missing gold when they worked together at an Upper East Side boutique three years ago."Just read this bible, and come to him, and save...