Nov 05

Ex-border agent gets prison for civil rights violations

By PMC Public Corruption Comments Off

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Border Patrol agent convicted of violating the civil rights of two undocumented immigrants to one year in prison.

Santiago Perez, 28, of Edinburg, Texas, admitted as part of a guilty plea in August that he assaulted a Guatemalan and a Mexican man on separate occasions. Perez admitted to authorities that he pistol-whipped a Guatemalan man in December 2006. Perez also admitted to taking a Mexican man out to a remote South Texas ranch and holding a gun to his head, and trying to force him to admit he was a smuggler.

In addition to the one-year prison sentence, Judge Nancy F. Atlas sentenced Perez to three years of supervision. Perez has been allowed to remain out on bond until he is ordered to report to prison.

Perhaps this is the solution to the Corbett case! Indictment and prosecution for violating Francisco Rivera’s Civil Rights by murdering him in cold blood.

Anyone thinks that is appropriate, call the United States Attorney General Civil Rights Division at (202)514-3204

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Oct 28

Murder in the Desert – More thoughts about the trial of Nicholas Corbett

By PMC Opinions, Public Corruption Comments Off

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett makes his way to the federal courthouse in Tucson on Wednesday.How do you defend a Border Patrol Agent where the evidence suggests the person is guilty? In the case of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett, you call the witnesses LIARS! And why would you call the witnesses liars? Because they’re Mexican’s of course!

Not proper courtroom procedure but that seems to be the case here.

Last week, lead special prosecutor Grant Woods told the jury that Corbett’s story did not match the evidence from the scene. Meanwhile, he added, the eyewitnesses made statements that were consistent with the autopsy, ballistics and forensics. Keep in mind, it took Corbett several instances to come up with a story he thought would pass muster. It doesn’t.

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Oct 28

Murder in the Desert – World Net Daily and Jerome Corsi trying to influence Nicholas Corbett trial

By PMC Legal Actions, Public Corruption Comments Off

In this photograph taken by Cochise County Sheriff's Office investigators on Jan. 12, a Border Patrol vehicle driven by Nicholas Corbett, right, remains in the position where Corbett stopped in order to detain a group of four illegal Mexican immigrants, including Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera. Corbett fatally shot Dominguez-Rivera during the detention. (Courtesy of the Cochise County Attorney's Office)It took Jerome Corsi long enough to come up with distorted “facts” concerning the Nicholas Corbett case, but in a piece erroneously titled Mexico accused of framing border agent, he seems prepared to put the case in the Court of Public opinion as he did for the case of convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

Nicholas Corbett is on trial on second-degree murder charges in Cochise County Superior Court in Bisbee, Ariz., in connection with the shooting Jan. 12 of Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, a 22-year old illegal immigrant from Mexico.

But in all fairness to Corsi, not that he deserves any, the allegations come from Brandon Judd, vice president of U.S. Border Patrol Union Local 2544, of which Nicholas Corbett is a member and who is picking up all legal expenses for the outlaw agent.

And the allegations? The Mexican Consulate is taking care of all the expenses of three Mexican witnesses to the shooting so they can remain in the U.S. to testify against Corbett.
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Oct 21

Murder in the Desert – The Circus returns to town

By PMC Public Corruption Comments Off

U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett, will stand trial again on various charges stemming from a shooting of an illegal immigrant. More than seven months after the first trial ended with a hung jury, the retrial of a U.S. Border Patrol agent facing murder charges begins today at the U.S. District Court in Tucson.

Here’s the playbook

The case: U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide in the Jan. 12, 2007, shooting of Francisco Javier Domínguez Rivera, a 22-year-old illegal immigrant from Puebla, Mexico.

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Oct 20

Fugitive US Border Patrol Agents captured in Tijuana

By PMC Public Corruption Comments Off

Two former Border Patrol agents were arrested in Mexico after more than two years on the run and were charged in the U.S. with taking bribes to help illegal immigrants cross the border, authorities said Monday.

A federal indictment unsealed Monday in San Diego accuses brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal of taking bribes, smuggling illegal immigrants, tampering with witnesses and conspiring to launder money.
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Oct 20

Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigns – Bond denied!

By PMC Border News, Narco Wars View Comments

Starr County Sheriff Reymundo Guerra, indictment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuanaStarr County commissioners this morning, accepted the resignation submitted by Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra over the weekend

County Judge Eloy Vera said said the sheriff’s office would for now be under the command of Chief Deputy Rene Fuentes, who is next in the chain of command.

Since Guerra was running unopposed in the Nov. 4 election, he effectively starts a new term as sheriff in January, Vera said. It is not yet known whether he plans to withdraw his candidacy.

“At that time the topic will come up again,” Vera said.

U.S. Magistrate Dorina Ramos had expressed concerns during a detention hearing last week that Guerra might return to his post as sheriff while free on bond.

Reymundo Guerra’s resignation as Starr County sheriff didn’t convince Judge Ramos to set bail for the former lawman,

Defense attorney Philip Hilder said Guerra would appeal today’s denial of bond. Unless overturned by a district court, Ramos’ decision means Guerra will remain behind bars pending trial in early December.

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