More than 130 escape from Mexican prison on U.S. border
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a Mexican prison on the border with the United States in one of the worst jailbreaks the country’s beleaguered penal system has suffered in recent years.
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News 8 discovered Guzman is locked up in the Dallas County Jail without bond on this charge, because he is in the United States illegally.
Youth soccer coach, an illegal immigrant, charged with repeatedly raping 10-year-old athlete
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: A trusted youth sports coach is arrested for sexually assaulting a young child, and investigations discover that the victim had been brutally raped for more than a year.
Mondragon-Guzman is being held without bail because
he is reportedly in the U.S. illegally. He could be deported to Mexico depending on the outcome of an eventual trial against him on the aforementioned sexual assault charges.
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Pistol wrestled away from would-be carjacker leads police to murder suspects
RICHARDSON – The same man Richardson police arrested for a violent break-in at a woman’s apartment Wednesday night is now accused of murdering a man during a botched burglary a few days earlier.
Dallas police are looking at the same man in connection with a sexual assault there, as well.
Richardson investigators say they got the lucky break they were looking for in the murder of a 63 year old male victim when they discovered a gun that implicated the same man in three separate crimes –– and likely more.
Lindy Friess is a fighter. She fought breast cancer. And Wednesday night, she battled a man who forced his way into her apartment and hit her with a gun.
She learned Wednesday that Jose Portillo, 22, the same man arrested for the crime against her, is now also accused of a Richardson murder.
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Illegal alien charged with killing pregnant woman and her baby in Virginia
On Saturday, a funeral was held at Horizon Funeral Home in Culpeper for Zulma “Carly” Alvarez, 20, and her newborn baby. The two were killed on September 6, when their van was hit head on Eggbornsville Road by a Jeep Cherokee that crossed the center line.
Alvarez was nine months pregnant. She and her baby both died at Culpeper Regional Hospital a short time after the crash, according to a Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office
press release.
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AUSTIN — It’s called operation SOAR. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents busted 50 illegal aliens and sex offenders. Federal agents say some of those convicted are repeat offenders and others have been deported before.
Armed with weapons and protective gear, federal agents operate under the veil of darkness. They drive to neighborhoods where sex offenders are hiding.
In all, agents arrested 50 illegal aliens; 40 of them convicted sex offenders. Agents say seven are from the Central Texas area. All seven are from Mexico and all seven are convicted of sex crimes against children.
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37 arrested in operation targeting criminal aliens
A three-day operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement targetting criminal aliens and immigration fugitives in the Chicago area ended Sunday with a total of 37 arrests, including two in Joliet.
Of those arrested, 31 had convictions for crimes such as murder, identity theft, drug possession, illegal use of a weapon, battery, forgery and domestic violence, a release from ICE said.
Twelve previously had been ordered to leave the country but failed to do so, and 11 of those are convicted criminals. Another six had been deported and illegally re-entered the United States, ICE reported.
Of the 37 men arrested, 34 were of Mexican origin and one each were from Poland, Guatemala and Trinidad. Ten were arrested in Chicago; eight in Elgin; four in Palatine; two each in Aurora, Joliet and Calumet City; and one each in Berwyn, Bolingbrook, Hoffman Estates, Huntley, Round Lake Beach and West Chicago.
Three arrests also were made in Hammond, Ind.
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Nearly 600 government agencies face penalties under immigration law
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nearly 600 city and county government agencies across Georgia face losing access to tens of millions of dollars in state loans and grants for not complying with a central part of the state’s
immigration law.
At issue is a requirement that government employers with two or more employees file annual reports certifying they and their public works contractors are using E-Verify. The federal work authorization program helps confirm newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United States.
This month, the state Audits and Accounts Department sent a list of 570 government agencies to the Department of Community Affairs, saying they have not filed annual E-Verify reports. The letter says those not complying with the law could be cut off from certain state funding — including state community development block grants — until they file their reports with state auditors.
The state’s list includes four counties outside the Atlanta area, more than 130 cities across the state and more than 400 other government entities, including hospital, housing and development authorities.
