The Litter Box

~ Thursday, April 13, 2006

Illegal Crimes:

Woman Allegedly Raped, Slain by Day Laborer
Douglas Herrera Castellanos Faces Life Without Parole If Convicted
March 29, 2006— - NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- The woman who discovered the scene of her sister's murder -- allegedly carried out by a laborer at the house to clean the deck -- took the stand today.

Anne Fallon, of New City, said her sister's last words during a morning cell phone chat were, "I have to go. The power-washer needs me." She also testified that she saw the suspect outside the house, with blood on his face.

Fallon spoke at the murder trial of Douglas Herrera Castellanos, who is accused of raping and killing Mary Nagle last April 29th. Herrera, here illegally from Guatemala, faces life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree murder.

Fallon said her last conversation with her sister came early that morning on the phone when Nagle agreed to take Fallon's place in a tennis match. Fallon later got a call telling her Nagle hadn't shown up and she repeatedly called her sister but got no answer and finally drove to her house in New City.

Fallon started up the stairs but stopped as soon as saw a lamp on the floor of the master bedroom and blood. She called police, who found her slain sister.

In later testimony, a phone company employee said Nagle's cell phone was used more than 50 times after Fallon spoke to her. Prosecutors say Herrera stole Nagle's phone and called several of her friends and relatives to describe the killing.

Griffin also said several calls were made to Guatemala.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Not all illegals are Mexican! This is NOT a race issue! This is a LEGAL issue!

Drug suspect arrested after deportation
By Brandon Johansson

Friday, March 31, 2006

A month after being deported to Mexico, a Craig woman is back in Moffat County Jail on drug charges after authorities say she snuck into the U.S.

Gabriela Grijalva-Monrreal, 18, of Craig, was arrested at a home in Craig on a warrant Tuesday night.

Craig police arrested Grij-alva-Monrreal at a home in the 900 block of Langford Street on Tuesday after receiving a tip that she was at the home, said Craig police spokesman Lt. John Forgay.

Grijalva-Monrreal was one of 15 people arrested in a major meth sweep in December.

In January, Moffat County Judge Mary Lynne James dropped drug charges against Grijalva-Monrreal because she was 17 at the time that police say she sold meth.

Police say Grijalva-Monrreal sold drugs Sept. 13, according to court documents. She turned 18 on Nov. 27.

James said in January that the 14th Judicial District Attorney's Office could file juvenile charges against Grijalva-Monrreal. James couldn't comment further on the case because juvenile cases are sealed to the public.

Grijalva-Monrreal's booking sheet from the Moffat County Jail states she was arrested Tuesday on a juvenile warrant for meth distribution and a warrant for failing to appear in court.

Grijalva-Monrreal, a Mexican national, was released from Moffat County Jail on Jan. 20 into the custody of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Carl Rusnok, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said agents deported Grijalva-Monrreal to Mexico on Feb. 21.

When immigration agents deported Grijalva-Monrreal, they did not know she had a warrant out for her arrest, Rusnok said.

"I don't know if that was some sort of a miscommunication or whatever," Rusnok said.

Grijalva-Monrreal must have snuck back into the U.S. since her deportation, Rusnok said.

Re-entering the U.S. is a violation of a 10-year ban on entering the country that the agency places on deportees, Rusnok said. Grijalva-Monrreal faces a felony charge for re-entering the country, he said.

Grijalva-Monrreal is in court next week for the meth charges. The immigration charges will be addressed after she's served her sentence for the meth charges.

Illegal immigrant held in two attacksBy DEANNA BOYD
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER

Star-Telegram / Ron T. Ennis
Jose Carrillo is brought into the Fort Worth Police headquarters on Thursday. FORT WORTH — An illegal immigrant in federal custody since his arrest early this month on traffic warrants was arrested Thursday in connection with a string of rapes and other sexual attacks dating back to December 2004, police said.

His hands and legs shackled, Jose Carrillo, 30, was transported from federal custody Thursday afternoon and arrested by Fort Worth police on warrants in two of the Fort Worth rapes.

Police say DNA evidence linked Carrillo to the two attacks, in addition to a rape in Arlington. When asked by reporters if he committed the offenses, Carrillo said no, adding that he has a wife and a baby on the way.

“This is not fair what you guys are doing. This is not fair,” Carrillo said, shielding his face from the cameras with his green shirt as he was led down a police hallway to begin being booked into jail, with bail set at $300,000. “These guys have killed my life.”

Carrillo, who police say has numerous aliases, surfaced as a suspect in the case after an apartment manager told police that the man had sexually assaulted one of her tenants, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

He was arrested on outstanding traffic warrants March 10 as he drove away from his place of employment. A Mexican national, Carrillo was then placed into federal custody on an immigration hold.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, police obtained a warrant for a DNA sample from Carrillo. On Wednesday, Detectives C.B. Smith and S.L. Schloeman were notified that his DNA matched biological evidence recovered from the June 17 rape of a woman at the Meridian apartments on Marine Creek and the Jan. 24 rape of a woman in the 1000 block of N.W. 28th Street.

In addition, police said, Carrillo’s DNA matched evidence from the Dec. 19 rape of a woman at the Windcastle Apartments in southeast Arlington.

During a Thursday afternoon news conference, Sgt. Don Hanlon, supervisor of the sex-crimes unit, said Carrillo is also a suspect in about a dozen other offenses, including indecent exposures and robberies that investigators believe might have been unsuccessful sexual assault attempts.

Hanlon said investigators have learned that Carrillo lived in the Marine Creek area when the first series of attacks happened there between December 2004 and October 2005.

In those attacks, police say a masked man armed with a kitchen knife attacked women in their homes or as they were arriving or leaving.

Later, Hanlon said, Carrillo moved to north Fort Worth, where two attacks were reported between November and January. Police say a man, usually wearing a ski mask, confronted his victims as they walked down the road or were getting into their cars. He displayed a rope or placed one around the victim’s neck.

“There was enough variance in the description that we weren’t sure that it was the same person so we started analyzing evidence obtained from the crime scenes,” Hanlon said. “... We were eventually able to relate these two series of offenses together.”

Hanlon said investigators searching Carrillo’s home found items that may be related to the attacks, including clothing that matches the description of what the attacker wore in some of the offenses.

“We recovered articles that are similar in nature to what the victims described was used to restrain them around their neck,” Hanlon added.

Because of time gaps in the attacks and the attacker’s pattern, Hanlon said, investigators believe other sexual assaults may not have been reported to police. He urged any other victims to come forward.

“He didn’t know boundaries, obviously, because he was in two different cities in Tarrant County, so we’re concerned that there are other offenses that haven’t been reported to us and we want to prosecute this person for all the crimes he’s committed, not just the three that we have him on now,” Hanlon said.

Even when we send them back, they return. Like a coldsore.

Mexican arrested on drug charges had been deported three times
The Columbus Dispatch
Friday, March 31, 2006
An illegal immigrant and convicted cocaine dealer from Mexico will serve 10 years in prison for re-entering the United States after having been deported three times, federal officials in Columbus said.
Police arrested Carlos Balas- Ramirez, 42, in August on a narcotics charge.

When Columbus police contacted customs and immigration officials in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, officers learned that Balas-Ramirez was first deported from the country in November 1992.

A further investigation revealed that Balas-Ramirez had several felony convictions involving cocaine possession and distribution, authorities said.

He had used eight aliases with three dates of birth and two Social Security numbers. He also had been deported in August 1998 and July 2003, investigators said.

Judge James L. Graham of U.S. District Court presided over yesterday's sentencing. Balas-Ramirez had entered a guilty plea in October to the charge of re-entry after deportation.

Federal law prohibits returning to the United States for at least 10 years after deportation. It is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

So what do you do with them when their own country doesn't want them??

U.S. near deal with China on illegals
By Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 5, 2006


The Department of Homeland Security is near an agreement with China to return up to 39,000 Chinese illegally living in the U.S. to the communist country, which previously had refused to accept deportations.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday said the tentative agreement, which would let the U.S. deport Chinese illegals as they are arrested, will act as a deterrent to other foreign nationals contemplating illegal immigration.
"We can't be in the position any longer where we are paying the burden and bearing the burden for countries that won't cooperate with us and take their own citizens back," said Mr. Chertoff as he completed a weeklong tour of China, Japan and Singapore to discuss security and immigration issues.
Mr. Chertoff said nearly 700 Chinese nationals held in U.S. detention centers are clogging the system and that more than 38,000 have been released on bond after spending the maximum 180 days in lockup.
China has declined to accept the illegals, citing uncertainty about their identities.
"The Chinese government is resolutely opposed to ... illegal immigration," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. "First of all, we have to identify those illegal immigrants and based on that, China is willing to receive the repatriation of illegal immigrants."
Federal immigration judges have issued final orders of removal to Chinese citizens smuggled into the U.S., students and others overstaying their visas, and some awaiting legal immigration.
DHS officials said details of the agreement still are being worked out, as are specific deportation plans. The department uses electronic bracelets to track some illegals released on bond and uses other monitoring programs, such as regular check-ins.
Returning Chinese citizens is a major financial burden for China and a "low priority," Mr. Chertoff said.
"But they've got to understand it's a high priority for us," said Mr. Chertoff, who noted that it costs $95 per day to house each detainee.
China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported that a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) told Mr. Chertoff in one meeting that bilateral cooperation is essential to maintaining world peace, stability and development.
Bilateral cooperation on trade, terrorism, nuclear nonproliferation, avian flu and the nuclear buildup in Iran and North Korea also will be top priorities when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington beginning April 20.

"China hopes to make substantial achievements in extradition, fighting terrorism, Olympic Games security and illegal migration," said Luo Gan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
William Knocke, Homeland Security spokesman, said a senior department official will remain in China for a few extra days to finish the agreement.
"We are encouraged by our discussions with the Chinese government," Mr. Knocke said. "There are details that we need to still work through, but now we have an agreement, in principle, on streamlining the process of repatriating Chinese nationals."
China is at the top of the list of foreign countries that refuse to cooperate with repatriation when their citizens are caught residing in the U.S. illegally.
When asked which other nations refuse to accept their citizens caught illegally in the U.S., Mr. Knocke said, "We're not above naming names if other governments continue to be uncooperative, but the meetings in China were very productive, and we are optimistic about other possible outcomes."

posted by Nikki B at 2:57:00 PM