Invader charged with strangulation in Connecticut

Danbury (Conn.) News Times
Danbury — A 25-year-old Franklin Street man was being held on bonds totalling $115,000, plus an immigration detainer, after he was ed in connection with a domestic disturbance at his home Saturday evening, police said. — Robert Mino faces a variety of charges after his girlfriend came to the police station shortly after 6:15 p.m. to report that Mino had thrown a cell phone at her after she pulled him off their 1-year-old son, who Mino had pinned, faced down, against a sofa cushion, police said. — Mino was charged with disorderly conduct, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree strangulation, third-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor, and attempted second-degree assault… Read More

Invader accused of leaving kids in hot car

WTVD-TV — Raleigh-Durham, NC
Police have arrested a man on charges he left his two kids in a hot car. — Investigators say Jesus Morfinez-Juarez left the children unattended in a vehicle for more than 30 minutes on Friday, while the temperature was greater than 95 degrees. — He’s charged with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse, and is being held on a $3,000 bond… Read More

Drug raid nets suspected invader, others

KTVZ-TV — Bend, Ore.
A drug deal near a southeast Bend Chinese restaurant Friday afternoon led to a traffic stop, the arrest of four Bend residents, a raid on a Deschutes River Woods home and the seizure of methamphetamine worth nearly $10,000, police said Saturday. — One of the suspects, later identified as a suspected illegal alien, tried twice to run, once running across Third Street while handcuffed, but was taken into custody both times, officers said. Another suspect’s three children were placed with a family member. — It all began when a Bend police officer observed a drug deal involving two men and a woman around 1:30 p.m. Friday in the area of the Hong Kong Restaurant at 530 SE Third St., said Sgt. Todd Fletcher… Read More

Illegal alien MS-13 goon guilty in child sex-trafficking case

Washington Examiner
An illegal immigrant who is a member of the MS-13 gang has been found guilty of trafficking a 12-year-old girl for sex. — A federal jury in Alexandria convicted 24-year-old Jose Ciro Juarez-Santamaria of conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation of a minor for prostitution. — Juarez-Santamaria is from El Salvador, where he joined MS-13, and is in the United States illegally, according to prosecutors. — He met the 12-year-old girl, who had run away from her home, at a Halloween party in 2009, prosecutors said. — The girl had asked him to help her find a place to stay. Court records say Juarez-Santamaria made the girl work as a prostitute… Read More

Mexican invader found guilty

Orangeburg (SC) Times and Democrat
Abdi Reynosa-Bravo, 26, of Mexico and Orangeburg, pleaded in federal court to being an alien who knowingly and illegally entered the United States and eluded examination and inspection by immigration officers, according to U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles. — U.S. District Judge Margaret B. Seymour of Columbia accepted the plea and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report, which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office. — Evidence presented at the change of plea hearing established that on Feb. 24, Reynosa-Bravo was arrested at a residence on Halford Lane in Orangeburg County and charged with trafficking marijuana in state court… Read More

El Salvadoran threatened to kill Long Branch detective

Asbury Park (NJ) Press
Long Branch, NJ — An El Salvadoran national, who police say was highly intoxicated, threatened to kill an off-duty police detective summoned from a dining table to help an employee being harassed by the drunken man. — An intoxicated Edgar Rolando-Santo Velasquez, 28, of South Fifth Avenue in the city, told Spanish-speaking Detective Michael Verdadeiro in Spanish, “I kill police in my country. I got a knife and I am going to kill you,” according to Lt. Frank Rizzuto. — An off-duty Verdadeiro was sitting at a table inside the Por Do Sol restaurant on Broadway in the city and… Read More

Man who allegedly tried to fly to US using fake papers indicted

Saipan Tribune — Garapan, MP
An indictment was filed Thursday in federal court against a Chinese national who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last week as he tried to check-in for an outbound flight to Los Angeles, California, via Narita, Japan, using allegedly fake documents. — Dongjun Li, 38, was indicted for immigration fraud and false statement or entry. — According to the indictment filed by assistant U.S. attorney Beverly R. McCallum in the U.S. District Court for the NMI, Li used a forged U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service Form I-512 on July 15, 2011, as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the U.S. It was dated May 20, 2011… Read More 

San Diego-born boy sentenced to 3 years for Mexican drug-cartel killings

Vancouver (BC) Sun
Mexico City — The “boy killer” who for many became a symbol of the lawlessness and social deterioration of Mexican society because of the nation’s drug war was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for killing four people in Morelos state. — Edgar Jimenez Lugo, alias “El Ponchis,” was 14 years old when he was arrested by the Mexican army in December. The teenager admitted before news cameras at the time that he began killing at age 11 and that a cartel paid him $200 a week to do it. He claimed to have beheaded four of his victims… Read More

Invader arrested on rape charges involving 14-year-old girl

AL.com
Decatur, Ala. — Decatur police arrested a 23-year-old man on rape charges after the mother of a 14-year-old girl called police regarding the alleged rape. — The mother called police Saturday to report her daughter had been raped three weeks earlier, police said. Luis Antonio Brito was arrested on an unrelated charge and held in the Decatur City Jail. — Police investigated the rape allegation and charged Brito with second-degree rape… Read More

 

Invader faces charges involving DUI with child in car

The News-Herald — Willoughby, Ohio
A Cleveland resident faces numerous charges for allegedly driving drunk in Mentor with his 2-year-old in the car. — Mentor Police Lt. Tom Powers said at about 2:34 a.m. Sunday, an off-duty officer noticed a car driving into landscaping near Jalapeño Loco, 7289 Mentor Ave. — The officer approached the vehicle, and spoke to the driver, 24-year old Alphonzo Ojeda. — Ojeda’s child and two adults were also inside the vehicle, Powers said. The child was seated on one of the men’s laps. — Another officer was called to the scene and administered a series of field sobriety tests, which Ojeda failed… Read More