Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Another gang rape

Alipac has worked for a week to confirm that the perps are indeed ILLEGAL.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Three men are in police custody, accused of raping a woman on Hollywood Beach early Wednesday morning.
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Hollywood police said the woman had fallen asleep on the sand and she told officers she woke up when the men started attacking her.
The suspects -- Armando Moncadaramos, Cesar Luis Amador and Hever Ramos -- are in their early 20s.
"She was awoken by at least two individuals on top of her," said Hollywood police Capt. Tony Rode. "One, Mr. Amador, was holding her down while Mr. Ramos was actually committing a sexual battery upon her."
Police said the woman reached into the sand and grabbed a sharp piece of glass and fought back. That's why the suspects have cuts on their faces.
"As she's resisting, she's striking and slashing at the first offender, Mr. Ramos. She basically cuts him several times in the face and also in his chest," Rode said. "He backs off because he's now attending to his injuries. She thinks the incident is over. Unfortunately a third individual appears and jumps on top of her."
Police caught the men soon after the attack and the victim identified them as her attackers.
Police said they believe all the men are from Honduras. Each man is charged with sexual battery.

More illegals in action

Bond Set At $1 Million For Suspects In Brutal Attack On Central Texas Teenager

(June 29, 2006)—Bonds are $1 million for two illegal immigrants arrested and charged Thursday in connection with a brutal attack on a recent Mexia High School graduate who was run off a rural road, raped, beaten, stabbed and left to die in a ditch.
The victim was in stable condition Thursday in Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
The girl is “very very fortunate to be a survivor,” Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said Thursday.
Investigators said they have identified three separate crime scenes related to the attack.
A tip from a Mexia resident led authorities to the two men who were charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping Thursday.
Javier Guzman Martinez, 17, of Mexico was arrested in Limestone County and Noel Darwin Hernandez of Honduras was arrested at a bus station in Waco as he tried to leave the country, Wilson said.
Both men had Mexia addresses, authorities said.
The attack happened late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning on a rural road near Coolidge.
The attackers evidently intended for their victim to die, but bleeding profusely, the girl somehow made her way to a house a half-mile away where she awakened residents with a faint knock on the front door.
“We want to make sure this young lady knows that she and our family are certainly in our prayers and our thoughts, Wilson said.”
Mexia school officials were shocked by news of the attack.
“The community is devastated because she is such a sweet girl,” Mexia School Board President Don Corbitt told News Ten.
“We don’t understand how anyone could do anything like that to a girl at all, much less someone as sweet as she is.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Sick little punk

09/13/2006
Young girl describes ordeal after her attempted rape

DAVIE, Fla. (WSVN) -- An 11-year-old girl relived a terrifying ordeal when she says she was cornered by an 18-year-old who, she says, wanted to rape her.
Rocael Espinoza Andres, the young man accused of the attempted rape, now sits at the Broward county jail.
It was Sunday when the 11-year-old girl was walking home from a Davie McDonald's with a friend, but then she separated from her friends. She slipped through a gap in a fence near 131st Avenue and State Road 84 to head home. That's when she said three men confronted her. She said one of those men grabbed her and pulled her into the bushes, pulling down his pants and offering her money to have sex.
"He pulled me in and pulled his pants down, and then I was like, 'No, no,'" said the victim. "He offered me $100 and I was like, 'No, I don't want money, I don't want that. I don't want you, I don't want anything to do with you, get away from me.'"
The girl was able to slap him and get away but not before the man fondled her under her shorts. "He kept on touching, feeling my pants, and I was like, 'Stop,'" she said. "Then I pulled his hand out, and he tried to lick my chest, and I was like, 'No!' and I slapped his face. Then, like five minutes later, my pants finally got uncaught, and I ran."
The girl told a group of her friends what had happened. The friends -- among them Jesus -- took off after the men.
"I had a gulf club stick without the top part of it," Jesus said, "and I put it in their face, and I told them, 'Don't move. Stop right now,' so she could come and tell us who did it."
Justin Jesus, the victim's friend, said he did not mind risking his own safety to make sure his friend's attacker would be off the street. "I know her, she's my friend," he said. "We're not just people who say, 'Hi.' I'm her friend, and I care about her, and I'm not going to let her get raped and not go after the people who did it."
Jesus recalled that his friend was "hysterical" after the attack. "Her eyes were red and swollen," he said. "She just couldn't stop crying. She couldn't even talk."
While Jesus and the other friends kept Andres from fleeing, police arrived and arrested him. Andres later admitted to police that he grabbed the girl's breasts and touched her under her shorts, as well as admitting his plans to rape her.
Officers arrested Andres after he admitted his sinister intentions with the girl. Police have charged Andres with one count of sexual battery on a victim under 12 and two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation. He's also being held on an immigration violation.
Meanwhile, Andres' father, Feliciano Andres, said he does not believe his son could do such an act. Through a translator, he said, "I don't think he did it because he was drunk. I don't think he did it."
Friends of the 11-year-old victim say they are going to be more cautious and stick together when walking home from school. "Probably walk with more people than I usually do. And I'm going to walk with her all the time now to make sure nothing else happens," said one young girl.

Very violent crime by 16-year-old illegal

An earlier article explained this crime happened because the lady had called ICE. Someone should pay for not deporting this creep and his friends.

Teen at the crosshairs of Nashville’s crime-fighting focus
By Jared Allen, jallen@nashvillecitypaper.com
September 26, 2006
Jose Sosa, an illegal Honduran immigrant, was indicted last week by a Davidson County grand jury for the brutal stabbing of a mother and daughter inside their South Nashville home.Sosa, who at the time of the April 24 murders was 16, lived with five Hispanic males directly next door to the victims, Lori and Adrien Rountree, according to police testimony. The 44-year-old mother and her 16-year-old daughter had apparently been sleeping when police say Sosa forced his way into the home and stabbed the two of them repeatedly in their chests and backs.According to Metro Detective Brian Corcoran, who testified at Sosa’s juvenile transfer hearing, Lori Roundtree’s body was found with 37 stab wounds and Adrien’s was found with 46.Prints lifted off of what police believe was the kitchen knife used in the stabbings matched those of Sosa, Corcoran said.Police have yet to say what motive they think Sosa may have had – other than a possible robbery – in the slayings.Sosa is being tried as an adult, and has remained in police custody since his May 11 arrest.Sosa’s case directly illustrates two of the most serious problems Metro Police say they have faced this year: an increase in the amount of violent offenses committed by teenagers and about criminal offenses committed by illegal immigrants.In July, the police department reported that the number of juveniles arrested and charged with violent crimes within the first six months of 2006 had increased 20 percent over the first six months of 2005.At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Jeff Burks who – along with Jon Seaborg – handles most of the office’s cases involving juvenile criminal offenders, said the number of cases being transferred from Juvenile Court to Criminal Court has “clearly increased” over 2005.But violent and often deadly crimes being committed by teens are only half of the problem, according to much of Nashville’s law enforcement community.Illegal immigrants have been accused of a number of high-profile criminal offenses committed in the area. Many of the accused had been deported, as well as arrested, previously – prompting Sheriff Daron Hall to ask the federal gov

Saturday, September 23, 2006

More illegals gone wild.......

Illegal Immigrant Facing Attempted Murder Charges
("Sept22,2006,11:24 PM EST
WILMINGTON -- An illegal immigrant will go to trial on Monday for charges of attempted murder, according to prosecutors.
Miguel Ranjel allegedly shot Wilmington resident Michael Harrell outside the Carolina Cantina on Market Street in December 2005.
According to the police, Ranjel showed his gun to Harrell, and told Harrell that he was going to shoot people inside the restaurant. Ranjel then went to the bathroom. Harrell evacuated everyone in the restaurant.
When he came back out, Harrell had already gotten everyone outside. Police said that Ranjel then shot Harrell in the stomach and the arm.
Ranjel is charged with attempted first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and resisting a police officer.
Prosecutors said that if Ranjel is convicted, he would will serve his sentence in North Carolina, then be deported.
That was just one of the two recent cases of illegal immigrants going to trial. Martin Vazquez, 42, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter.
According to the police, Vazquez was drunk when he slammed into Benedict Randolph's car on Oleander Drive, killing Randolph.
An agent with Immigration Customs Enforcement told WECT that when illegal immigrants commit crimes in the U.S., they will be held accountable for what they have done, and then be deported to their native country.
Reported by Kacey Gaumer

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Frosty tells it like it is........

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 21, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

In the 60s, “Popeye the Sailor Man” guzzled spinach from a can in order to battle the bad guys. He became an icon of good health for those who ate vegetables and exercised.
As of this week across America, you don’t want to eat spinach nor any vegetables grown and picked by America’s newest slave class. Restaurants called for a ban on serving spinach salads. I’ll bet most Americans shy away from lettuce, cabbage and other leafy vegetables in the coming weeks. They’re all grown and harvested under the same conditions and same people.
Why? As of Wednesday, 146 citizens in 23 states suffered E. Coli infection and one died.
How do you think this disease outbreak occurred? To bring it into sobering focus, please understand that 20 million illegal aliens crossed into America in the past 20 years without any kind of health screening. They work picking our food, washing our dishes in restaurants and, as is the norm in Third World countries, rarely if ever wash their hands after using the toilet. Additionally, most of them suffer functional illiteracy. They do not practice personal hygiene or health habits most Americans assume as a normal aspect of living.
While on my 21st Century Paul Revere Ride this summer through 48 states, I saw thousands of illegal aliens working in fields the length of California. I rode through Salinas Valley where illegals cultivated crops. I noticed porta-potties sometimes and none at other times. I never saw hand washing facilities. Pause for a moment, and consider cleanliness habits of Third World people with a fifth grade education. Why does disease affect millions in the Third World? What happens when millions migrate illegally to our country? Might dozens or more do their morning constitutional amongst the crops for lack of a porta-potty? Might the contamination be spread across the fields by the common practice of “flood irrigation?” Would flooding spread the contamination further?
You never ‘hear’ the major TV networks address or experts talk about this aspect of the contamination of our foods. It’s a cover-up, plain and simple. They only report it when it breaks out beyond their ability to squelch it.
Remember Chi Chi’s Restaurants in Pennsylvania that killed several customers because the work staff suffered hepatitis infections? Remember the Center for Disease Control stating they thought the source originated in Mexican fields irrigated with sewage water?
Have you heard about the latest multi drug resistant tuberculosis outbreaks in Philadelphia, Atlanta and near Cleveland this summer? We’ve imported at least 16,000 cases of TB in the past five years according to latest reports. Before that, TB was virtually extinct in America.
Tuberculosis kills 2,000,000 people world wide annually. Where? In the Third World! Why? Illiteracy, contaminated water, limited food and lack of hospital care! We’ve imported 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past three years. It’s endemic to the northeast of the United States for the first time ever. Have you heard about it by the major networks? Not a chance!
In an April 25, 2004 front page story of the Santa Barbara News Press, “Anatomy of an Outbreak”, one illegal alien infected 56 others with tuberculosis. After he avoided police for months, they finally captured him and placed him in quarantine. In September, 2005, a school child in Fort Morgan, Colorado contracted tuberculosis while attending school. How? An illegal alien student suffered from the disease, but was not screened before attending school. Our national media silences these outbreaks.
Do you see a pattern here? It’s called Third World Momentum. All the consequences affecting the Third World now manifest in our country.
As millions of illegals import themselves into the United States, they bring diseases. They rarely change their sanitation habits or lack thereof. They work in our meat and chicken processing plants at $6.00 an hour. Do you think they bring any responsibility and pride to their work? As more corrupt CEOs bribe health inspectors and OSHA officials, our food sources suffer degraded standards.
Illegal aliens by the millions work in our restaurants. Last spring, a reader of this column from New York City reported, “Our manager last night ran cursing out the back door of the restaurant with a hand towel box in his hand…illegals had been using the toilet and threw their used toilet paper into the box because that’s what they do in Mexico because sewage systems can’t take tissue paper. The illegals had been throwing their used toilet paper into the hand towel box!” I traveled through Mexico and saw it myself. This story represents the tip of an ugly disease epidemic growing in America.
As a nation, what we’re facing is like a 50 car pile up on a foggy morning on an expressway in Pennsylvania. Everyone speeding into the blinding fog bank begins slowing down too late. Someone brakes hard when another car slows down abruptly. The cars behind can’t stop; the chain reaction pile-up begins.
Doesn’t anyone see what’s happening to America? Apparently not! Sixty-two of your 100 senators voted S.B. 2611. That bill assures our growth by 100 million in the next 34 years. However, that’s 100 million people mostly from Third World countries. That ensures pockets of poverty and disease already ravaging millions in those countries to be transplanted into America.

For all Americans, this E. Coli outbreak stands as a harbinger of things to come. When you degrade health standards, hire illegal aliens carrying multiple of diseases or disease provoking habits, you’ve got a national crisis in the making.
Ironically, even our U.S. Senators stand at risk as well as their families. Even if they live in gated communities, at some point in time, with these illegal aliens invading every nook and cranny of our society—everyone becomes vulnerable to disease, terror, death and fraud wrought by this invasion.

With this E. Coli outbreak, even Popeye may find himself headed for the emergency room. However, he’ll be forced to wait in line behind countless illegal aliens given free access ahead of him. Not only that, he’ll be paying for their doctor visits with his hard earned tax dollars. This time, at the end of the cartoon, he won’t be chortling with Olive Oil

Illegal drags woman to death

The brutality of some of these illegals is insane. Why are we allowing these monsters to be here?

Photo leads to suspect in dragging death

CASTLE ROCK, Colorado (AP) -- The stained, tattered photograph shows a couple looking off in different directions -- distracted, or maybe bored. The man has a hand on the woman's shoulder, but with an air of indifference.
It's the sort of photo more likely to be forgotten in a box than to make it into a frame or album. But it ended up at one of the most brutal crime scenes imaginable -- possibly as a key piece of evidence.
The man in the photo, Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, 36, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of murder in the death of an unidentified woman who was dragged behind a vehicle with a rope, leaving a trail of blood more than a mile long.
Authorities did not say how the photograph ended up near the woman's body, which was discovered before dawn Monday in a suburban neighborhood about 20 miles south of Denver. (Watch police look for clues along a mile-long blood trail -- 1:31)
Nancy Foley, who lives nearby, said the victim had an orange tow rope around her neck and that her face was unrecognizable.
The picture shows a couple who appear to be in their 30s. Investigators said they were still trying to identify the victim, and did not say whether the woman in the picture was the victim.
The photo had been released to the public, and Sheriff Dave Weaver said tips from citizens helped lead to the arrest. Weaver offered no motive for the killing, and the sheriff's department did not respond to repeated requests by phone and in writing for more information.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said agents believe Rubi-Nava is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
At a court appearance Wednesday afternoon, Rubi-Nava, who was jailed without bail, listened through a translator as District Judge Paul A. King formally told him the charge he faces.
King sealed the arrest warrant affidavit, which outlines the preliminary allegations against Rubi-Nava, at the request of public defender Kathleen McGuire. King said he would consider McGuire's request for a gag order.
An autopsy indicated the woman died of asphyxiation and head injuries from being dragged.
The trail of blood led from Interstate 25 to the woman's body, which was found on a street lined with large ranch-style homes on spacious lots, some surrounded by spacious lots of tall prairie grass and trees.
Someone placed a small white cross near the spot where the body was found. On Wednesday, highway crews were spreading fresh tar over the roads to cover the traces of blood.

Illegal with HIV rapes 5-year-old

This scum needs to be locked up forever. My heart is breaking for that poor little girl who will never have a normal life.


Young rape victim undergoes HIV treatment

Thursday, September 21, 2006
By MIKE PERRYStaff Reporter

A 5-year-old girl is undergoing treatment for possible HIV infection after the man charged with raping her -- an illegal alien who was previously deported to Mexico -- admitted he has the virus, authorities said.
The case has re-energized some state lawmakers to push for tougher penalties for people who commit sex crimes and knowingly expose their victims to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Julio Cesar Cruz Martinez, 32, of Fairhope is being held in a segregated unit at the Baldwin County Corrections Center on charges of first-degree rape, sexual abuse and sodomy, a jail official said Wednesday.
Police said Martinez has confessed to some of the acts involving the girl and to knowing he had HIV before the crime reportedly occurred Sept. 13.
Officers notified the family immediately after Martinez disclosed his infection, sheriff's spokesman Lt. John Murphy said.
"The child has been taken to medical services, where she has been tested and is being given treatment to reduce the risk of the HIV virus," Murphy said Wednesday.
HIV is a virus that destroys the body's ability to fight off illness and is the cause of AIDS. People infected with the virus do not have AIDS until they develop serious symptoms, but they are capable of transmitting the virus through sexual intercourse, according to the AIDS.org Web site.
Martinez has undergone HIV testing at the corrections center to confirm whether he has the virus, Murphy said. The lab results are pending and may not be released publicly, he said.
Deputies had questioned Martinez's identity, since he did not provide valid identification.
Temple Black, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Wednesday that Martinez is an illegal alien who has been deported to Mexico at least once. The department placed an administrative hold on Martinez -- requiring him to remain jailed -- after identifying him by photo and fingerprints, Temple said.
If convicted of the rape and other charges, Martinez would serve his sentence in the U.S. before being returned to Mexico, he said.
Baldwin County District Attorney Judy Newcomb said this week that her office was looking into whether Martinez should face additional charges for knowing he had the virus when he allegedly raped the girl.
Newcomb said such crimes typically fall under assault or endangerment statutes, and she doubted that Alabama had a statute to enhance charges against someone who knowingly exposed another to HIV or AIDS.
Many U.S. states have laws making it a separate crime for someone to knowingly expose someone to the virus during a criminal act. But no such legislation exists in Alabama, a researcher with the Secretary of State's office confirmed Wednesday.
State Sen. Bradley Byrne, R-Montrose, said he agrees Alabama needs laws that would make it a crime for someone to knowingly expose another to the virus while committing a crime, particularly in cases involving children. Byrne said he plans to push for tougher laws in the next legislative session.
State Public Health Officer Don Williamson said Alabama needs tougher laws to criminalize known HIV exposure, but lawmakers should be careful not to dissuade people from getting tested for the disease.
"The known exposure of another party by somebody who is HIV infected, without warning them or taking precautions, is immoral and reprehensible. We need to figure a way to deal with that," Williamson said.
Lawmakers should be careful to create rehabilitative options for drug addicts and others at high risk to HIV infection, so that get-tough laws don't discourage them from getting tested, he said.
"For some people, ignorance of the law is an excuse," Williamson said. "If they never find out they are infected then they can't be charged with knowingly exposing somebody."

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Good Reading

Posted on Sat, Sep. 16, 2006
Court-created right to education draws illegals1982 case required states to let illegal immigrants enroll in public schools
TOM ASHCRAFT Special to the Observer

Soft headed liberal policies, often pushed under a rubric of "compassion," make folks in government feel good when they are adopted. Officials can pat each other on the back and tell themselves how much they care, how enlightened they are. Such policies, however, frequently lead to consequences the opposite of good government.
Take the issue of whether children not legally in the country ought to have a constitutional right to attend public schools. The issue was addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1982 case of Plyler v. Doe.
In the mid-1970s, enrollment in Texas public schools was growing rapidly because of large numbers of children of illegal aliens in the state, mainly Mexican nationals. In order to control rising costs, the Texas legislature passed a law which withheld state funds from local school districts for the education of children not "legally admitted" to the country and allowed the districts to deny enrollment to such children.
Even 30 years ago the U.S. government was doing such a dismal job of controlling the southern border that Texas was feeling the pinch in its public school budget. The state enacted what its leaders thought was a reasonable response: The education of Mexican children should be the responsibility of authorities in Mexico, not Texas.
With the support of the National Education Association and other liberal groups, a lawsuit was brought and eventually reached the Supreme Court. Opponents of the law contended that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment did not permit Texas, in providing public education, to distinguish between Americans and others legally in the country and those not legally here.
By a 5-4 vote, the court sided with opponents of the Texas law. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan, a Democrat appointed by Republican President Eisenhower before the 1956 election, held that the Texas law was an irrational discrimination against the children in question and that it advanced no "substantial interest" of the state.
Chief Justice Burger, appointed by President Nixon in 1969, wrote a stinging dissent, joined by three other justices. Of the many points he made, two stand out a quarter century later.
First, Burger warned against "judicial legislating." The Constitution "does not constitute us as `Platonic Guardians' nor does it vest in this court the authority to strike down laws because they do not meet our standards of desirable social policy, `wisdom,' or `common sense.' ... We trespass on the assigned function of the political branches under our structure of limited and separated powers when we assume a policymaking role as the court does today." Burger found Texas' concerns perfectly rational. "By definition, illegal aliens have no right whatever to be here, and the state may reasonably, and constitutionally, elect not to provide them with governmental services at the expense of those who are lawfully in the state."
Second, Burger noted the dereliction of Congress in dealing with "the influx of uncountable millions of illegal aliens [coming] across our borders." He cited a Department of Justice estimate indicating there were between 3 and 6 million illegals in the country at that time. He said, "The failure of enforcement of the immigration laws over more than a decade [as of 1982] and the inherent difficulty and expense of sealing our vast borders have combined to create a grave socioeconomic dilemma."
What has been the effect of the 1982 Plyler ruling? It's hard to quantify, but common sense indicates that providing public education for children of illegals is a powerful incentive for folks to try to sneak into the country, especially given the dire straits many face in Mexico and elsewhere. Estimates of illegals in the U.S. today range from 10 to 20 million.
Because of Plyler, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools does not track the immigration status of students. It does, however, categorize some students as "limited English proficient," overwhelmingly Spanish speakers. Last October there were 12,493 such students, up from 11,510 the year before. For the school year 2005-06, over $15 million was allocated to teaching English as a second language -- in a school system where many native born are failing to meet basic standards.
As a free people, we can keep or change current immigration law. What we cannot change is that current law inevitably has future consequences. As to government action, the chickens always come home to roost.
Tom
Ashcraft

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Illegal kills 3 Americans

Padilla gun spree detailed
By KATHY MELLOTT The Tribune-Democrat

HOLLIDAYSBURG— Eyewitnesses to a shooting rampage testified Thursday to their horror and confusion during the triple-murder trial of Miguel Padilla of Cambria County.Tonya Kline saw the fire blaze from the gun as it was shot.“I froze for a moment, then I hit the cement. I just turned around and dove,” she testified. “Al (murder victim Alfred Mignogna) was laying across my legs. I was covered in blood.”Emotional and often graphic words highlighted the second day of testimony – with the girlfriend of one victim describing how her boyfriend pushed her out of the way and was immediately shot in the chest.The attorney for Padilla, 26, of Convent Street agrees that his client, an illegal immigrant, shot Mignogna, Fred Rickabaugh and Stephen Heiss to death outside an Altoona club on Aug. 28, 2005.The strategy of Donald Speice is to claim Padilla was in such a mental state that he could not form the intent to commit first-degree murder – and thereby save Padilla’s life.Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio contends that Padilla had the time and mental soundness to intend to kill the men, a necessary element in a charge of first-degree murder.A transcript from a 911 call Padilla made about an hour after the shootings depict a man who claims he is confused with no memory of the incident.“I know they’re looking for me. I think I may have hurt somebody, but I don’t know what I did,” Padilla told dispatcher Jamie McClellan.He goes on that he takes medication, believed to be for a panic disorder, but he had been without the drug for a month prior to the murders.The shootings occurred after an evening of drinking by Padilla drinking and friend Travis Shumaker.However, police who arrested Padilla a hour after the shootings said he walked backward for a distance of 50 feet and showed no sign of being incapacitated.The jury also viewed a video from a security camera posted at a discount grocery showing Padilla running from the scene through the back parking lot of the United Veterans Association, where the shooting occurred.Barbara Zindel, 38, who was attempting to go into the club with Heiss at the time, testified her boyfriend pushed her to the ground before he took a single bullet to the chest.“I felt Mr. Mignogna fall on the back of my legs,” dying, she testified.Altoona police officers testified about finding a .45-caliber handgun with laser sighting in a wooded area four blocks from the UVA. Also found was a briefcase with Padilla’s drivers license, cards for his construction business, insurance information for four of his vehicles including a silver Jaguar with North Carolina plates and registered in his name.That briefcase also contained $19,000 in cash. However, that information was not presented to the jury following a ruling by Judge Hiram Carpenter, disallowing the evidence.An estimated five prosecution witnesses remain and the prosecution’s case should wrap up today. The defense may start to present its witnesses before day’s end.