Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrants

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Washington Redskins player charged with DUI

In the early morning hours on Monday, Washington Redskins defensive lineman Joe Louis Joseph, 25, was arrested on a driving under the influence charge in Loudoun County, Va. he was booked into the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center at 3:00 a.m.

Joseph was released on Monday afternoon.

Vincent DiBenedetto, of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, told the Loudoun Times-Mirror:  “It appears that our office responded to a possible accidentâ€"a vehicle off Ryan Rd. at the intersection with Brambleton Plaza.

While the LCSO did not release Joseph’s blood alcohol level, DiBenedetto did say that it was “obviously over the legal limit.”

 Joseph had just returned from playing the Jacksonville Jaguars which was his first game as an active member of the Redskins.

The DUI is his first.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Video reminder of Michael Vick's crimes (disturbing images)

While the National Football League and President Obama may be willing to overlook Michael Vick's brutalization of helpless dogs, many people cannot.

When police raided Vick’s house in Surry County in 2007, they found 65 dogs, a dog-fighting pit, blood-stained carpets, and various equipment commonly used in dog fighting.

One of the items found on Vick’s property was a ‘rape stand’ which is a device in which female dogs are strapped into and restrained, to allow a male dog to breed with her.

According to the federal indictment, when dogs at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels lost a fight, or failed to perform well in ‘test matches,’ they were routinely killed by methods including electrocution, hanging, drowning, and in at least one case by “slamming” the dog’s body onto the concrete floor. In one session in April 2007, at least eight dogs were killed through these methods.

Vick took part in these executions along with his partners Purnell Peace, and Quanis Phillips. The indictment detailed a March 2003 incident, in which a female pit bull who had just lost a match was killed. Vick and Peace decided to kill her by “wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting her.”

Several of the dogs seized on Vick's property were beagles, which because of their non-agressive nature are commonly used as 'bait dogs.' The helpless dogs are tied-up and torn apart by the pit bulls being trained to attack and kill other pit bulls.

Watch the video below and remember these dogs the next time you hear Vick being praised by a sports analyst, or even by the President...

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

Washington Redskins player charged with DUI

In the early morning hours on Monday, Washington Redskins defensive lineman Joe Louis Joseph, 25, was arrested on a driving under the influence charge in Loudoun County, Va. he was booked into the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center at 3:00 a.m.

Joseph was released on Monday afternoon.

Vincent DiBenedetto, of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, told the Loudoun Times-Mirror:  “It appears that our office responded to a possible accidentâ€"a vehicle off Ryan Rd. at the intersection with Brambleton Plaza.

While the LCSO did not release Joseph’s blood alcohol level, DiBenedetto did say that it was “obviously over the legal limit.”

 Joseph had just returned from playing the Jacksonville Jaguars which was his first game as an active member of the Redskins.

The DUI is his first.

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrants

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

Another Salvation Army bell ringer arrested for stealing donation kettle

Norfolk police have arrested Crystal Rose Hughley, 30, a Salvation Army bell ringer who originally reported that het kettle was stolen while she was taking a break inside the Wal-Mart at 7530 Tidewater Drive.

Store surveillance video incriminated Hughley and an accomplice who is being sought at this time.

Hughley was charged with filing a false police report and embezzlement.

Police have yet to recover the money.

Earlier this month, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, another Salavtion Army bell ringer, who also claimed to have been robbed.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was reportedly stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police quickly determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Feds bust sprawling Richmond-based fake document ring

Federal investigators have uncovered numerous “document production cells” which churned out countless counterfeited green cards, Social Security cards and other documents for illegal aliens across the country.

The indictment alleges that the ring was based in Richmond and sold the fake documents in Manassas and the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The criminal enterprise also operated in Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island.

The multi-state operation was allegedly headed by Israel Cruz Millan, 25, an illegal alien who goes by the name “El Muerto,” Spanish for “the dead one.”

On Thursday, Millan and 16 others were arraigned in Richmond before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer. In all, arrest warrants for 30 individuals have been issued, many of whom are in the country illegally.

So far, 25 of the fugitives have been arrested. Each of the defendants is charged either with conspiracy to produce and transfer false identification documents, involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy, or both.

Officials say that in Richmond on May 28, one of those arrested, delivered counterfeit Resident Alien (green card) and Social Security cards to an informant for a fee of $200 only one day after the source provided his or her photograph and information.

Western Union wire transfers were the preferred way of moving profits around.

Nearly all of the defendants speak only Spanish and translators will be needed throughout their trials.

In January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men in Norfolk, for   producing phony identification documents for illegal aliens. The document mill was being run in a house on Galveston Avenue, in the Wards Corner section of the city, an area which in recent years has seen a large influx of illegal aliens.

The men, Patrocinio Castro-Quijano, Gerardo Ortega-Cortes and Onofre Dela Cruz-Vite are all in the country illegally. According to ICE special agent Kevin Hogancamp, all three of the suspects admitted to producing the fake documents, selling them for $150 each.

Investigators determined that the group produced hundreds of green cards as well as Social Security cards.

In 2009, a similar document ring was discovered operating in Norfolk as well.

Despite pleas from the public, Norfolk officials continue to ignore the issue of illegal immigration, even in the face of increasing crime attributed to the city’s growing illegal alien population.

Over their citizens’ objections, the Norfolk City Council has refused to adopt the highly affective 287(g) program. The agreement between federal and municipal authorities allows local law enforcement to investigate a suspect’s immigration status after an arrest has been made for any offense.

Since 2006, more than 1,000 law-enforcement officers have been trained and certified by the federal program. Currently, 77 local police departments participate in 287(g). Both Virginia and North Carolina lead the country in the number of local departments participating.

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Portsmouth man wanted for child rape found in the Philippines

On December 8th, David Wayne Greth was captured in the Philippines and is now on his way back to Portsmouth, Va.

Since 2006, Greth has been wanted on charges of rape, object sexual penetration, two counts of taking indecent liberties with children, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy, child abuse and three counts of felony child abuse.

He allegedly sexually abused two girls and disappeared during the police investigation.

He was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in December 2006.

At the time of his arrest, Greth was working at an English tutorial center.

Police are not releasing any further details about Greth and his alleged crimes at this time.

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news

Illegal alien gang member sentenced for Northern Va. drive-by shooting

Last week, Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced Hector Valdami Campos-Aguilar, 19, to 10 years in prison for a September 2008 drive-by shooting that took place in Sterling Park. The gang-related attack wounded three people, leaving one paralyzed.

As part of a plea agreement, Campos-Aguilar was sentenced for unlawful wounding. He was originally charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding in the case.

According to prosecutors, Campos-Aguilar along with two other MS-13 members drove up on a group of young men at the intersection of East Poplar Drive and Buckingham Court in Sterling, thinking they were members of the rival 18th Street gang, they turned around and opened fire on the group.

One of the victims was shot in the arm; another was shot in the back, penetrating his spleen; and another was left paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries.

As it turned out, none of the shooting victims were actually gang members.

Campos-Aguilar, came to this country illegally from El Salvador, and has a long criminal record. His record in Fairfax County alone includes convictions for receiving stolen goods, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing and assault and battery.

He should be deported upon his release from prison.

In recent years, Northern Virginia has been inundated with illegal alien, and the notoriously violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13 has emerged as the area’s most prominent gang.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: "The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade,  that is where a lot of these immigrants go."

MS-13 set up shop in Northern Virginia during the 1990s, lured by the region's fast-growing Salvadoran population, later expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Langley Park and Gaithersburg.

During 2004-2005, there were two machete attacks in the Northern Virginia area. An Alexandria teenager lost four fingers during a savage encounter with MS-13 members, while a Fairfax man also became a victim of an MS-13 machete attack. Both incidents are believed to have been acts of initiation.

In 2005, two MS-13 members were convicted in an Alexandria, Va. United States District Court for killing a 17-year-old pregnant girl. A rope was placed around the neck of Brenda Paz,, she was then stabbed repeatedly. Her body was left along the muddy banks of the Shenandoah River. The murder was retribution for the girl´s cooperation with a federal investigation into the gang´s activities.

Last month, a jury of nine women and three men found Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty of first-degree murder in killing of D.C. intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, who speaks no English, heard the verdict through a pair of headphones on which the translation was provided.

A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was charged in April 2009 with the murder of the missing intern, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.

According to prosecutors, Guandique murdered Levy on May 1, 2001, raping her along a jogging trail in the park.

At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for assaulting two other women in the same park at knifepoint. He is serving a 10-year sentence for that crime.

Gunadique was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement were aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.

In October 2009, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that Guandique, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testified at Guandique’s trial.

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

Newport News man charged with raping 12-year-old girl

Donnell Wright, 19, has been arrested following what police have called a consensual sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl.

According to police, Wright had sex with the girl in her home in October. Her parents reported the incident on November 30.

The two apparently met while shopping.

Wright is charged with one count each of rape, sodomy and indecent liberties with a child.

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

Second illegal alien pleads guilty to gang rape of 6-year-old girl

On Tuesday, Daniel Elios Jacobo-Guirao, 17, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual battery of a victim younger than 13, in Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court.

Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Holly Smith agreed to drop a second sexual battery charge, in exchange for Jacobo-Guirao’s guilty plea. The deal avoided forcing the 6-year-old victim to testify in court.

Through a translator, he told the judge: “I hope God will judge me the way it's supposed to be and I hope I will be seen in His eyes the way I am.”

Jacobo-Guirao was arrested in August, along with his two accomplices, Tito Guirao-Aguilar, 39, and Samuel Eli Jacobo-Guirao, 20, for repeatedly raping the girl.

Last month, Tito Ubaldo Guirao-Aguilar, 39, also pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual battery of a victim younger than 13.

Samuel Eli Jacobo-Guirao, 19, has requested a mental evaluation which is scheduled for December 15. His trial is set to begin on January 10. He is facing similar charges.

Daniel Jacobo-Guirao and Guirao-Aguilar are scheduled to be sentenced for their crimes on February 23.

Both illegal aliens are facing a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

The most popular tourist destination in the state, Williamsburg has a growing crime problem attributable to its illegal alien population, who are largely employed by the hotel and restaurant industry.

On June 10, 2010 Williamsburg police arrested illegal alien Raul Vasquez-Garcia, 33, in front of the same apartment complex where he allegedly shot a man, a week earlier.

On the night of June 4, 2010, police arrived at the Village of Woodshire apartments on Merrimac Trail, they found a man suffering from two gunshot wounds. According to police, the man and Vasquez-Garcia had been arguing over a woman.

The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he recovered from his wounds and has since been released.

Vasquez-Garcia is charged with attempted murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and assault.

 

 

 

Powered By iWebRSS.comwatch immigration news videos

Local minister arrested for child rape

On Monday, Newport News police arrested a minister accused of sexually assaulting a child over an eight-year period, beginning when she was 10.

Edwin Benjamin Rosette Sr., 57, of Dutchess Lane, is charged with one count of rape.

In a rather disturbing twist, in addition to being a minister, Rosette told police that he is also works as a counselor for rape victims and juveniles.

Powered By iWebRSS.com immigration news - sex crimes of illegal immigrants

Mark Madoff hanged himself with his 2-year-old son in the next room

Mark Madoff, 46, the son of infamous investment fraudster Bernie Madoff, was found hanging from an exposed pipe in his loft apartment in New York City, early Saturday morning. His wife, Stephanie was in Florida and asked her father to check on him after receiving a troubling email.

When his father-in-law entered the couple’s apartment, he found Madoff hanging at the end of a dog leash. Mark and Stephanie’s 2-year-old son was asleep in the next room.

Madoff worked with his father since 1987, and though he claimed to have no knowledge of his father’s fraudulent schemes, most people did not buy it. Mark, along with his brother Andrew and their mother, Ruth, received tens of millions of dollars from the family’s investment firm and lived an incredibly lavish lifestyle.

In fact, investigators had recently begun focusing their attention on Mark and his role in the $20 billion scam, which may be why he killed himself.

Speaking under the condition of anonymity, an investigator told News Day: “He was next up to the tee.”

The circumstances of Madoff’s suicide are somewhat reminiscent of that of writer Hunter S. Thompson.

On February 20, 2005, Thompson placed a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. His wife Anita was on the phone with him, as he shot himself. She told the Aspen Daily News: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it."

Thompson’s grandson was in the next room playing when the shot rang out.

There are approximately 30,000 suicides in the United States annually.

Read more about the Madoff case: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/a-look-at-how-bernie-madoff-s-life-has-changed-behind-bars?cid=parsely#parsely

http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/bernie-madoff-will-die-prison-probably-sooner-rather-than-later

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Amber Alert cancelled: Brittany Mae Smith found (alive) in California

On Friday afternoon, Brittany Mae Smith, 12, was spotted in a store in San Francisco. She was with her alleged abductor, Jeffrey Scott Easley, 32. Police responded quickly to a citizen’s call and took Easlely into custody.

On Monday, Virginia State Police issued an Amber Alert for Brittany, after her mother’s body was found inside her home in Salem, Va. and the 12-year-old was missing.

The death of 41-year-old Tina Smith is being investigated as a homicide.

At a Friday evening press conference, Roanoke County Police Chief Ray Lavinder told reporters that Brittany knew her mother was dead. Chief Lavinder also said that he did not know if the girl was forced to go on the cross-country trek, but that she has no signs any injuries.

Brittany’s family was ecstatic to hear that she is alive and well, and will be coming home soon. Her grandmother, Liz Dyer told The Roanoke Times: "We're so glad. We're bouncing off the walls."

Powered By iWebRSS.comparticipate in immigration news polls

Police: Salvation Army bell ringer planned his own robbery

On Wednesday, Albemarle County Police arrested Lawrence Egnor, 43, a Salavtion Army bell ringer, who claimed to have been robbed a little over a week ago.

On November 30, police were called to the Sam's Club on Hilton Heights Road in Albemarle County, after a Salvation Army donation kettle was stolen in a strong-arm robbery.

Egnor told the officers that he was attacked by a man took the kettle and quickly drove away.

However, police have now determined that the robbery was staged by Egnor and his accomplices. Once officers pulled over a car matching the description of the one spotted by witnesses speeding away from the Sam’s Club following the robbery, the conspirators’ plan began to unravel.

Those allegedly involved are:

-Egnor is charged with one misdemeanor count of giving a false report to law enforcement and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement.

-James Shifflet, 44, is charged with one felony count of larceny.

-Emory Sliger, 52, is charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

- Rhonda Johnson, is charged with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen good or property.

Egnor returned to work following the robbery and continued to man his kettle until he was placed under arrest.

Major Allen Johnson, the Corp Officer for the Charlottesville-area Salvation Army said: “I was shocked. I'm not angry, but it's hurtful.”  

Powered By iWebRSS.comget more immigration news

American-born teenager admits to four beheadings for Mexican cartel

On Thursday, the Mexican army arrested 14-year-old Edgar Jimenez Lugo, a U.S. citizen who goes by the nickname “El Ponchis” (the cloaked one), has apparently been working as a hit man for the South Pacific Cartel since he was 11-years-old.

The diminutive assassin was captured at the airport near Cuernavaca, as he tried to board a flight, in an attempt to return to the U.S. He, along with his 16-year-old sister planned to fly to Tijuana and then cross the border to San Diego, where their family reportedly lives.

At a Friday press conference, the unapologetic teenager said: “I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn't, they would kill me.”

Apparently, the boy’s sister would help dump the bodies, after her brother decapitated the victims.

Morelos state Gov. Marco Adame Castillo told reporters that Lugo was born in San Diego, but he may also be a citizen of Mexico as well.

The South Pacific Cartel is run by Hector Beltran-Leyva, his brother, Arturo Beltran-Leyva, was killed last year by the Mexican military marines in Cuernavaca. After he was killed, a fight ensued for control of the cartel which has produced unprecedented violence in an around the resort city of Acapulco.

Read about another American teenager recruited by the cartels: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/mexican-drug-cartels-now-recruiting-hit-men-from-u-s-military

Powered By iWebRSS.comread interesting immigration news opinions

Amber Alert issued for Virginia girl believed to be in grave danger

Virginia State Police issued an Amber Alert for 12-year-old Brittany Mae Smith, after her mother’s body was found inside a home in Salem, Va. The death of 41-year-old Tina Smith is being investigated as a homicide.

Police believe Brittany was abducted by Jeffrey Scott Easley, 32. The two may be traveling in a red, 2000 Chevrolet SUV, with Virginia tags: XPR-4366. Or they could be in Smith’s vehicle, a 2005 Dodge 4-door sedan, license plate number VA-XKF2365.

Brittany is 5 feet tall, 100 pounds, with straight brown hair and brown eyes.

If you have any information of the whereabouts of Brittany Mae Smith, call the Roanoke County Police Department at 540-777-8641 or the Virginia State Police at 1-800-822-4453 (1-800-VACHILD).

Powered By iWebRSS.comsee justice served immigration news