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Border patrol agent accused of murder still waiting for day in courtA border patrol agent accused of murdering an illegal immigrant near the border will have to wait until August to hear what charges he will face.Permalink [Filed under: Border Patrol, Crime, Murder, Security]Authorities say Nicholas Corbett shot and killed 22-year-old Francisco Dominguez-Rivera back in January.
Corbett was allegedly trying to apprehend the man and his relatives who were trying to cross the border illegally.
Corbett says he felt threatened, but the county attorney says the evidence shows the shooting was unjustified.
Posted by Editor at 07:00 AM
Execution 1st in Ariz. in yearsWhen Robert Comer is laid on a gurney in Florence today, he will be the first person executed in nearly seven years - and only because he went to court to earn the right to die.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Judiciary, Legislature, Murder, State]Why have there been so few executions this decade and what takes so long?
A pair of U.S. Supreme Court cases shut down executions in Arizona for at least four years. And backlogs in the state and federal courts have slowed case movement to a trickle.
Posted by Editor at 03:36 AM
Smith : No gun law could have stopped himAs students sat waiting for Cho Seung-Hui to turn his pistols on them after murdering 32 others, I doubt that a single one thought: "I wish Congress had passed more gun laws so this couldn't have happened."Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Law Enforcement, Legislature, Murder, Opinion, Security]Not one. Human nature being what it is, the most common line of thinking likely was a forlorn hope that the killer's attention - and his front sight - might settle elsewhere.
Posted by Editor at 02:06 AM
2 Mexican men indicted in entrant killingsA Pima County grand jury has indicted two Mexican citizens on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two suspected illegal entrants among a group attacked in a pickup truck, authorities said.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Immigration, Murder]The indictment charges Rosario Humberto Araujo-Monarrez, 21, and Martin Esrain Flores-Gaxiola, 18, each with two counts of first-degree murder and 21 counts of endangerment, Deputy County Attorney Rick Unklesbay said. The men are from Sinaloa.
Posted by Editor at 06:43 AM
4 legislators seeking inquiry on county release of migrantFour state legislators are asking the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to investigate County Attorney Andrew Thomas' role in the release of an undocumented immigrant who was deported to Mexico in March before he returned to Phoenix and was accused of murdering his cousin.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Immigration, Legislature, Murder]The suspect, Ruben Perez Rivera, 23, is still at large.
Posted by Editor at 02:43 AM
2 Dead in Attack on Migrants in Ariz.TUCSON, Ariz. -- Gunmen apparently trying to seize a smugglers' truckload of drugs attacked a pickup hauling 23 suspected illegal immigrants early Friday, killing two people and wounding another, authorities said.Permalink [Filed under: Border, Crime, Immigration, Murder, Security]Within hours, Border Patrol agents tracking footprints found two men along with three high-powered weapons near a campsite south of where the shooting occurred, a Border Patrol deputy chief and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.
The men were questioned Friday afternoon and admitted to having fired high-powered weapons into the truck and were charged with two counts each of homicide and 21 counts each of attempted homicide, sheriff's Criminal Investigations Chief Richard Kastigar said.
Posted by Editor at 12:07 AM
Sonora, Mexico killings reflect new dynamicBISBEE - A recent surge in drug-related violence in the Mexican state of Sonora is a result of new pressures affecting a group of loosely affiliated cartels known as "The Federation" that controls the state's lucrative smuggling routes, U.S. officials and analysts say.Permalink [Filed under: Border, Crime, Drugs, Murder, Security]At least 20 killings related to organized crime have been registered in Sonora already in 2007, and according to an analyst with the Texas-based private security consulting firm Stratfor, new crime-fighting efforts in Mexico are indirectly driving the violence. Shortly after taking office in December, Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent more than 24,000 soldiers and federal police to areas ravaged by drug violence, including Acapulco, Tijuana and the western state of Michoacan. Those deployments, said the Stratfor analyst, who asked not to be named due to personal safety concerns, has sent a number of unsavory characters scurrying to safer ground - a phenomenon that Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours has called "the cockroach effect."
Posted by Editor at 12:37 AM
Judge blasted for 13-year term in fatal set-toMoments after telling a judge he was completely willing to accept any sentence he was given, Christopher Florez blasted the judge, saying he didn't deserve 13 1/4 years in prison because he is a "respectful person," a good father and a lover of all people.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Murder]"I'm not the person these people make me out to be and the way I look on paper," Florez, 27, told Judge Howard Hantman of Pima County Superior Court on Monday.
Posted by Editor at 06:14 AM
Immigrant smuggler gets life for fatal freeway shootingsFLORENCE, Ariz. -- An immigrant smuggler in one of the most violent episodes in human trafficking in recent years was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for his part in the fatal shootings of four people in an attack against rival smugglers.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Murder]The November 2003 shooting on Interstate 10 near Casa Grande was retaliation against a smuggling organization that had stolen about 20 illegal immigrants from another group, which eventually tracked down and opened fired on two moving vehicles carrying their customers, authorities said.
Posted by Editor at 06:28 AM
School unaware of teacher conviction
Mesa High School Spanish teacher who shot his partner to death in 1984 was hired by the school in August without the district or principal being told of his past.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Education, Murder]Eugene Nero, 55, was fired in November after the district learned he was charged with murder and later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for shooting his partner to death in Texas.
Posted by Editor at 06:23 AM
Lawmen confident bandits were killers of entrant trioLocal officials still don't know the names or nationalities of three illegal entrants who were shot and killed in the desert northwest of Tucson last week but they're confident that the shooters were bandits.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Murder]Contrary to rumors circulating about the shooting being a hate crime executed by "vigilantes," the evidence gathered so far points to smugglers, said Lt. Michael O'Connor of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
Posted by Editor at 06:22 AM
Search resumes for clues in 3 immigrants' deathsPima County sheriff's deputies on horseback and all-terrain vehicles scoured the desert northwest of Tucson on Monday for a third time to look for clues in the fatal shooting of three illegal immigrants.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Murder]About 25 deputies and investigators were working south for several miles from where a pickup truck that carried possibly 20 immigrants was abandoned Thursday, said Rick Kastigar, criminal investigations chief for the Sheriff's Department.
Posted by Editor at 06:44 AM
Napolitano promises full probe of 3 entrant killingsMEXICO CITY — Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano says there will be a thorough investigation into the shooting deaths of three illegal immigrants near Tucson, adding that the attack underscores the need for major U.S. immigration reform.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Governor, Immigration, Murder]The statement came Friday as Mexican officials released a statement demanding justice for the victims, killed Thursday when gunmen chased down a truck full of illegal migrants and opened fire.
Posted by Editor at 10:58 AM
2 bills would benefit killerState lawmakers may hold the fate of a former Valley teacher who shot a man on a hiking trail in 2004.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Law Enforcement, Legislature, Murder]Inspired by Harold Fish's murder trial, the Legislature passed a 2006 law making it easier to argue self-defense in court, but the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that the new law does not apply to cases that were under way before the law took effect.
Posted by Editor at 05:38 AM
Self-defense law change ruled not retroactivePHOENIX — A man accused of the 2004 murder of a woman at his Tucson apartment will have to prove to a jury he acted in self-defense if he hopes to escape prison.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Judiciary, Legislature, Murder]In a unanimous decision Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court said a change in self-defense laws approved last year affects only those charged with crimes committed after the change took effect.
Posted by Editor at 05:32 AM
Entrants killings' details emergeThe detailed picture that emerged Friday about events that led to bandits shooting and killing three illegal entrants northwest of Tucson provides a glimpse into the violent underbelly of human trafficking in Arizona.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Murder]The events unfolded early Thursday morning near the Silver Bell Mine Road area, taking the lives of two men and one woman. Authorities have not yet released the nationality, names or ages of the victims.
Posted by Editor at 05:28 AM
3 illegal entrants killed, 2 injured, others kidnappedThe Arizona Daily Star has the story.
A group of armed men attacked nine or 10 illegal entrants on the far Northwest Side this morning, killing three men and injuring two other people, authorities said.Permalink [Filed under: Crime, Law Enforcement, Murder]The illegal border crossers were headed north near the Silver Bell mine in a Dodge truck when they encountered three or four men in another vehicle, said Pima County Sheriff's Department Bureau Chief Richard Kastigar.
In the altercation one man was shot and killed, a woman suffered a gunshot and neck wound and another man suffered a hand injury and lost several fingers, Kastigar said.
Posted by Editor at 12:44 AM
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