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
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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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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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 DomÃnguez Rivera, a 22-year-old illegal immigrant from Puebla, Mexico.
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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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Starr 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.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — One of the top U.S. Border Patrol officials responsible for Alaska has been arrested at his home in Washington on child rape charges.
The Whatcom County sheriff’s office said deputies arrested Joseph W. Giuliano, the deputy chief patrol agent at the agency’s Blaine sector, on Thursday at his home. Blaine sector covers Alaska, Oregon and Western Washington.
The 55-year-old man had been charged Wednesday in Whatcom County Superior Court with raping a 14-year-old girl who was staying in his home. Prosecutors charged him with three counts of third-degree child rape.
Giuliano made an initial court appearance Thursday afternoon; bail was set at $50,000.
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Margarita Crispin, the Customs and Border Protection officer arrested for allowing loads of marijuana to pass through her bridge lanes unchecked for four years, pleaded guilty to drug charges Monday morning and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Crispin, 32, also agreed to forfeit a 2002 GMC Denali, $16,000 in cash, jewelry, and any other asset up to $5 million, officials said.
Court documents showed Crispin used her position as a CBP officer in El Paso to allow vehicles loaded with marijuana to pass through, without checking them.
This activity allegedly went on from about June 2003, just months after she was hired in March 2003, until about July 2007, when she was indicted in El Paso for conspiracy to import a controlled substance.
It was a stalled van, conspicuously filled with marijuana, as well as that her odd behavior, that attracted drew attention to her, according to court testimony.
On May 31, 2006, CBP officers went to check out a broken- down van, which had been abandoned in traffic at the Paso Del Norte Bridge. Inside, 5,769 pounds of marijuana were stacked floor to ceiling, an ICE agent testified.
The blatant nature of the smuggling attempt prompted the agency to look into the possible corruption of bridge inspectors.
Crispin first pleaded not guilty.
Monday, she changed her plea to guilty of one count of conspiracy to import more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana into the United States.
“We rely on the integrity of federal officers to enforce the laws and ensure the security of our borders,” U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton said after the sentencing Monday. “Agents who join forces with drug smugglers to subvert border inspections undermine border security in the most treacherous way. My office is committed to strengthening our border and will seek out, prosecute and punish those officers who betray their office and our trust.”
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