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Two possible candidates for President have written on this subject before me. I’m aware of their contributions. I won’t name them; their publicity is their business. I had decided to write my own take on this subject as soon as I heard about the Newark murders. Mr. Carranza has just pleaded not guilty to the execution-style murders of two young men and one woman in Newark, New Jersey, and to the attempted murder of the sister of one of the slain men. She survived. She identified him. That, his fingerprint at the scene, plus the fact that two of his...

At a news conference on Tuesday, Newark Police Director Gary McCarthy said the immigration status of a chief suspect in the murders of three college students behind an elementary school August 4 is "irrelevant." "What's relevant to me is that they're murderers, and what's relevant is that a heinous crime has occurred," said McCarthy. Jose Carranza, 28, one of three suspects so far charged in the execution-style killings, is an illegal alien from Peru. However, despite his many encounters with the legal system, his immigration status wasn't determined. Had federal immigration officials known Carranza was arrested in connection with child...

Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow has for years drawn criticism - and infuriated police - with her unwritten rule not to issue arrest warrants, or even pursue cases that rely on a lone eyewitness. Court records show more than a dozen Newark murders in the past three years in which witnesses had ID'ed the killers but no charges weren brought by Dow's office. Dow's "policy" seemed about to rear its head in the wake of the triple schoolyard slayings

A few blocks from the Newark schoolyard where the killings had been carried out, Gloria Gomez sat on her porch in the fading afternoon light, hardship etched on her careworn face, and tears welled in her eyes as she spoke of her two fugitive sons... “I raised them honestly, through my hard work,” the 45-year-old mother said in Spanish, remembering 20 years of cleaning other people’s houses, of abandonment by two husbands and of life as an immigrant... Ms. Gomez’s sons — Rodolfo Godinez, 24, and his 16-year-old half brother — were still being sought by the police yesterday in...

Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger Jose Lachira Carranza leaving the Essex County Courthouse last week. The 28-year-old Peruvian national charged in the executions of three college students in a Newark schoolyard is to appear in court this morning for a hearing on unrelated assault and child-rape charges. Jose Lachira Carranza was named in a 31-count indictment in July that accused him of sexually assaulting a little girl over a four-year period, beginning when the child was 5.

Authorities had several chances to get José Carranza off the streets. They didn't...... and so three innocent college kids were brutally murdered .....How was an illegal immigrant arrested for felony assault and twice on 31 counts involving the repeated sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl - on the street in the first place?

Rodolfo Godinez The bottom-feeding crew of suspects in the brutal Newark schoolyard massacre were a band of monsters who would torment neighbors in the apartment complex where most of them grew up........ authorities issued an arrest warrant for a fourth suspect in the horrific slaying of three promising youths.......Rodolfo Godinez, 24, had first met "principal suspect" Jose Carranza, 28........

A seething Newark Mayor Cory Booker pounded his fists and screamed "Enough is enough!" capturing the fury of rage-blinded mourners who asked why authorities left an accused child rapist free to massacre a trio of promising young people. Tears and grief gave way to anger and outrage at the funeral services for Deshon Harvey, 20, Terrance "T.J." Aeriel, 18, and Iofemi Hightower, 20, held at churches throughout the crime-stricken city still reeling from the senseless murders.......

An arrest warrant has been issued for a fourth suspect wanted in connection with last weekend's execution-style killings that left three Newark college students dead and a fourth seriously injured, authorities said this morning. Rodolfo Godinez, 24, also known as Rodolfo Gomez, a Nicaraguan national whose last known addresses were in the Ivy Hill section of Newark is being sought by authorities. Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy called Godinez "a principal player" and said he would be charged with three counts of murder, felony murder and weapons charges. McCarthy and Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said Godinez' previous addresses were...

The investigation into the execution-style murder of three college students took a shocking turn Friday afternoon with a report that two of the victims may have been sexually assaulted before they were killed. FOX 5 New York reported that a sexual attack may have occurred before college students Terrance Aeriel, Iofemi Hightower and Dashon Harvey were shot to death, and 19-year old Natasha Aerial was critically wounded. Authorities charged a third suspect with three counts of felony murder in the killings Friday evening, according to an Associated Press report. The suspect was described as a 15-year-old boy by Essex County...

EVIL GLARE: Jose Carranza is arraigned yesterday on charges he executed three people in Newark. NJ authorities twice allowed a suspected child rapist to slip out of custody without reporting his illegal immigrant status...Carranza came from Peru in 1991....was first arrested last October after a bar fight......A municipal court judge set bail at $50,000...later reduced to $20,000. He posted 10 percent and walked free. That allowed Carranza to return to what prosecutors said was four years of sexual torment he inflicted on a child that began in 2003 when she was just 5.

A 15-year-old youth on Friday became the third person arrested in the fatal shootings of three young people on a Newark playground last week. An intense police manhunt continued for at least two other suspects, including another teenager.

He was in this country illegally. Ten months ago he was charged with assaulting bar patrons; last month he was indicted for sexually assaulting a young girl and threatening to kill her family. But Jose Lachira Carranza was not in jail awaiting trial, or in de tention as an illegal immigrant. He was free to roam the schoolyards of Newark, where authorities say he took part in the murder of three college-bound students and the shooting of a fourth last Saturday night. As Carranza was arraigned yesterday on murder, weapons and other charges -- and ordered held on $1 million...

A Peruvian national in the U.S. illegally and who was previously charged with raping raping a five-year-old girl pleaded not guilty Friday in the execution-style slayings of three young college students... Fox News has learned that Carranza [aka Jose la Chira],who has a fake Social Security number, had been arrested on charges of raping a five-year-old girl and then threatening the child and her parents. In that case he faced a 31-count indictment. In another, he was arrested on assault charges stemming from a bar fight. Immigration officials apparently were aware of Carranza's illegal status since his prior arrests, according...

The major news networks continue their disgraceful policy of hiding from the American public the high incidence of criminal alien career criminals who engage in serial homicidal violence against Americans here at home yet avoid imprisonment and deportation. Fox News is the only network to accurately post the status of the recent horrific mass murder of three NJ teenagers and the hospitalization of a fourth. Fox identifies the apparent ringleader as “a Peruvian national in the U.S. illegally and who was previously charged with raping a 5-year-old… Jose Carranza is being held on $1 million bail after turning himself...

NEWARK SLAY SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY By JEANE McINTOSH and AUSTIN FENNER August 10, 2007 -- A third suspect was arrested today in connection with the execution-style, schoolyard shootings last week in Newark, WNBC.com reported. The newest suspect in custody is also a juvenile, authorities told the news station. The arrest came the same day that the 'principal' suspect pleaded not guilty to murder charges. José Carranza, 28, was held on $1 million bond. Carranza turned himself in to Newark Mayor Cory Booker yesterday after a televised press conference listed the immigrant as a suspect in the execution-style shootings that...

NEWARK, N.J. — A Peruvian national in the U.S. illegally and who was previously charged with raping a 5-year-old pleaded not guilty Friday in the execution-style slayings of three young college students a day after surrendering to Mayor Cory Booker.

(CBS/AP) NEWARK -- A third suspect was arrested and charged by Essex County police in the execution-style shootings of four friends outside of a Newark elementary school, officials confirmed to CBS 2 HD. It is not yet known who that person is or how police brought them into custody, but the Essex County Prosecutor's Office planned to announce the details during a news conference later Friday night. Meanwhile, one of the suspects in the shootings that left three of the four victims dead was arraigned Friday morning and entered a not guilty plea. Jose Carranza, 28, who authorities say is...

NEWARK, N.J. — A Peruvian national in the U.S. illegally and who was previously charged with raping a 5-year-old pleaded not guilty Friday in the execution-style slayings of three young college students a day after surrendering to Mayor Cory Booker. Jose Carranza, 28, who also goes by the alias Jose La Chira, entered his plea before Essex County Superior Court Judge Michael Casale. A second suspect, a 15-year-old boy, has been held pending a detention hearing. Authorities were seeking to have him tried as an adult Carranza, of Peru, was being held on $1 million bail. He turned himself in...

NEWARK, N.J. - A second suspect in the killings of three college students surrendered Thursday, shortly after officials announced that they had arrested a 15-year-old in the same case. Jose Carranza, 31, turned himself in, authorities said. He has had three prior arrests and was awaiting trial. Investigators earlier said more arrests could follow.