http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/crimalien/ en-us Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:17:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385658/posts More than 22,000 illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions have been arrested in Texas through a 1-year-old program that links FBI and federal immigration databases, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. About 12 percent of them, or 2,700 people, were charged or convicted of what authorities call "level one" crimes such as murder, rape, kidnapping or narcotics violations with a sentence of more than one year. (snip) Under the new system, fingerprints are run simultaneously through a national database to check criminal history and through a Homeland Security database to check the person's immigration status. All those arrested in jurisdictions... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385658/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:17:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385713/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. Napolitano, designated by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's immigration reform efforts, said many members of Congress had said they could support immigration reform, but only after border security improved, Napolitano said. "Fast forward to today, and many of the benchmarks these members of Congress set in 2007 have been met," she said in a speech to the Center for... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385713/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:57:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320383/posts DENVER - A local teenager is back home, after being kidnapped and held hostage in Mexico for two years, by an abusive boyfriend. Her parents say Alisha Martinez had been missing since April of 2007. They say she first met 22 year old Adan Garcia-Cruz when she was 14. He checked her out of school one day, saying he was her uncle. The parents called police, who arrested Garcia-Cruz two weeks later. And Alisha returned home. That's when her parents found out she was pregnant. Garcia-Cruz was arrested on numerous counts of sexual assault on a child, and service time.... Fox 31 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320383/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:58:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256256/posts NEWBURGH, N.Y. — The four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes with missiles are down-and-out ex-convicts living on the margins in a faded industrial city. One is a petty criminal who spent a day in 2002 snatching purses and shooting at people with a BB gun from an SUV. His lawyer calls him "intellectually challenged." Three have histories of drug convictions, one of them for selling narcotics in a school zone...But if they sometimes seemed amateurish, the men were dangerous people fueled by their hatred for Jews and America, prosecutors said.... Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256256/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 14:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217688/posts A 42-year-old Richfield man, his 9-year-old son and a 12-year-old girl from another family were killed Sunday morning when the SUV they were riding in was hit by a truck that slid across a snow-covered road in Washington County. The man's 40-year-old wife, two of their children and the 12-year-old girl's 11-year-old brother suffered serious injuries and were taken to hospitals, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department. The three men who were in the one-ton flatbed truck were not injured. ... According to the sheriff's department: The crash occurred just before 9 a.m. on state Highway 164 north of... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217688/posts#comment Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:37:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198586/posts Police on Tuesday obtained an arrest warrant for El Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique for the 2001 killing of Modesto's Chandra Levy, opening a dramatic new chapter in one of the nation’s most enduring murder mysteries. Bee Washington Bureau http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198586/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198334/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for an imprisoned Salvadoran immigrant in the killing of federal intern Chandra Levy, nearly eight years after the case captivated the nation's capital and ended the career of a congressman. The warrant accuses Ingmar Guandique (gwan-DEE'-kay) of killing Levy on May 1, 2001, as she walked her dog through Washington's Rock Creek Park, said U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor. Guandique, 27, is already serving time in a federal prison in Adelanto, Calif., for attacking two women in the same park. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198334/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190982/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators in the 2001 slaying of Chandra Levy have prepared an arrest warrant for a Salvadorian immigrant convicted of similar attacks in the park where the former intern disappeared, a person close to the investigation said Saturday. The person told The Associated Press that Ingmar Guandique's arrest is imminent and an official announcement is expected soon. The source was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190982/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148952/posts GLENWOOD SPRINGS — In a case that prosecutors likened to a high-profile Denver case, a judge has sentenced an illegal immigrant who killed his friend in a drunken-driving accident to six years in prison. The sentence is two years longer than one imposed in a nearly identical case earlier this year, but Deputy District Attorney Ed Veronda called that a “botched case by a special prosecutor” and said Garfield County judges were “totally out of whack with the rest of the state” in imposing lighter sentences for vehicular homicides. Veronda asked Judge David Lass, a retired Eagle County district judge... Aspen Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148952/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:53:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133415/posts The illegal immigrant accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl in Clark County has still not been deported as the case hangs in legal limbo. Jorge Avila, 21, of La Grange, Ky., was released from the Michael L. Becher Adult Corrections Facility last month because he had been held too long without going to trial. Because he is an illegal immigrant, Avila was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Illinois. Avila had been scheduled for deportation until the U.S. Marshals picked him up last week on federal charges of re-entering the country after deportation, according to ICE Public... News And Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133415/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:31:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131544/posts STAMFORD - MTA police arrested a janitor Wednesday who allegedly videotaped at least 16 women using a cell phone camera hidden in a bathroom stall of the Stamford train station, Metropolitan Transit Authority Police Sgt. John Rizzitelli said. Felicitos Gonzalez, 41, of 1 Division St., Stamford was arrested Wednesday morning at his home and charged with 16 counts of voyeurism, said Rizzitelli, an investigator on the case. Additional charges are possible, Rizzitelli said. Gonzalez has worked for Fusco Management since August, which runs and maintains the station on behalf of the Connecticut Department of Transportation,Rizzitelli said. A female complainant contacted... Stamford Advocate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131544/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:44:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123058/posts Mr. Obama's Aunt Zeituni will not be a major campaign issue—compared to other last minute disclosures such as Obama's frightening boast about coal that now produces half of our nation's electricity: "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." Yet in retrospect Aunt Zeituni will prove emblematic and raise a few disturbing questions (aside from the ethical matter of someone who was highlighted in a cameo fashion in his memoir as proof of his... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123058/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:27:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123179/posts By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living in Boston who is an undocumented alien. They may also know that Zeituni Onyango, from Kenya, was denied political asylum by an immigration judge four years ago. As Josh Micah Marshall at Talking Points Memo reported Saturday, Rep John Conyers (D-Mich), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee wrote an angry letter to Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security, saying the disclosure, by at least one “federal law enforcement official,” according to... The Washington Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123179/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:44:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123192/posts "I haven't been able to get in touch with her..." CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123192/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:53:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112533/posts In Antioch, a 23-year-old mother faces arraignment on November 12th on a grand jury indictment charging her with felony murder and aggravated child neglect. Astrid Lucretia Carias was accused of murdering her 4-month old son in July of last year. Carias allegedly smothered her child. Carias still has 3-surviving children who are now overseen by the Department of Children Services. Carias is being held in the Metro Jail in lieu of $150,000 bond. A federal immigration detainer has also been placed against her. WGNS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112533/posts#comment Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:19:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061623/posts LOS ANGELES - A confessed burglar described by police as one of the most prolific thieves in Los Angeles history was resentenced Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in prison. In an effort to win the slightly reduced sentence, Ignacio DelRio, also known as Ricardo Caveda, also drew a map that led police to some $400,000.. "He confessed to 1,000 burglaries, and I have been able to find 180 victims so far," police Detective Robert Longacre said after the sentencing. Longacre declined to name any of the victims but said they included well-known people in the movie industry and at least... San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061623/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:38:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036754/posts A man jailed in Mexicali on suspicion of running down a Border Patrol agent in January, killing him, has been released without charges, it was reported yesterday. The Attorney General's Office in Baja California confirmed to The Associated Press that Jesús Navarro Montes had been released from a Mexicali jail. No explanation for his release was given. Navarro was arrested Jan. 22 by Mexican authorities. He was accused of driving a Hummer carrying drugs on Jan. 19 near Yuma, Ariz. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was placing spike strips on a road to stop the Hummer and a second vehicle... Union Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036754/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028400/posts Three members of a touring male revue dance group have been arrested on accusations they raped a 24-year-old woman at a Klamath Falls motel. Sheriff Tim Evinger of Klamath County says Sky Lakes Medical Center notified police after a motel worker took the woman to the hospital. Lodged in the Klamath County Jail are 32-year-old Christian Hulfsizer of Los Angeles, 33-year-old Radek Zahahork of Irvine, Calif. and 27-year-old Allan Abrahan Armagnac-Bernal of Azusa, Calif. All are charged with rape and sodomy. Bail for each is set at $200,000. Armagnac-Bernal, a Czech national who has overextended his visa, is also being... Medford Mail Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028400/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997638/posts ANITA Shaw says, "My country let me down." It's hard to argue with her. Not only did America let Anita Shaw down, so did California and Los Angeles. Truth be told, Anita Shaw is being diplomatic, if not generous, by not lashing out in righteous indignation at the massive tragedy she has suffered at the hands of an indifferent government. Our government: federal, state and local. Who is Anita Shaw and why should you care what she says? Pull up a chair. Anita Shaw is a sergeant in the United States Army. On March 2, little more than a month... Los Angeles Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997638/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:07:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994827/posts Family members of the woman charged with causing the fatal school bus crash last month near Cottonwood say she left her native Guatemala two years earlier, hoping to make a better life for her family. The parents of Olga Franco tell the St. Paul Pioneer Press that she was sending them small amounts of money to help supplement about five dollars a day they earn growing corn. Franco is charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide in the crash that killed four students aged 9 to 13. Family members recall her as a loving daughter who helped care for... KSTP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994827/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992710/posts PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. -- A man in Prince William County has been charged with raping a 4-year-old girl and being in the country illegally.Police said Julio Cesar Huaman-Usca, 24, was baby sitting two of his distant relatives Wednesday night when he allegedly raped one of the girls.Police said Huaman-Usca is an illegal immigrant. He is being held without bond. Prince William County's strict immigration policy took effect earlier this month.It allows law enforcement officials to check the citizenship status of anyone suspected of committing a crime. nbc4.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992710/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:12:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982158/posts Racine - A Racine County jury this afternoon found Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and use of a dangerous weapon in the shooting death of Kenosha County sheriff's Deputy Frank Fabiano Jr. Lopez-Quintero, 45, an illegal immigrant living in Kenosha, faces a mandatory life sentence for the conviction of first-degree intentional homicide and up to an additional five years for use of a dangerous weapon. Fabiano, a former U.S. Marine and an 18-year veteran of the sheriff's department, was gunned down on the night of May 16, 2007, while attempting a routine traffic stop in the town of... jsonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982158/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:10:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974765/posts Minneapolis Crash Kills 4 Children MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― A woman who authorities say is in the country illegally and using an alias was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges in a school bus crash that killed four children, CBS station WCCO-TV reported.   A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales, 23, of Minneota, was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday before hitting a bus carrying 28 students from Lakeview School, Lyon County Attorney Richard Maes said. The accident happened near the small town of Cottonwood, in... cbs2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974765/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:21:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974470/posts MARSHALL, MINN. - The 23-year-old woman whose van collided with a school bus was arrested Thursday afternoon and booked on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation in connection with the crash that killed four children near Cottonwood, Minn. Alianiss Morales, of Minneota, Minn., is expected to be charged and make her first court appearance this morning, said Lyon County Attorney Rick Maes. The Minnesota State Patrol's investigation of the crash continued Thursday, and Maes said much of the paperwork from the investigation was already on his desk. "One [part of the investigation] is whether she was operating the vehicle in a... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974470/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974213/posts COTTONWOOD, Minn. -- Authorities have confirmed that the the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday is an illegal alien. Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she's been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias. FOX 9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974213/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:07:52 GMT