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1 Dead, 2 Naked in Illegal Immigrant Break-Ins
August 18th, 2007 @ 9:47pm
by KPHO.com
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. -- A normally quiet Phoenix-area neighborhood stirred to life Saturday as Maricopa County sheriff's deputies on the trail of undocumented immigrants discovered a body, several break-ins and two people in the nude all related to a tip on the controversial illegal immigrant hotline.
Deputies said they were doing surveillance in the area of 129th Avenue and Cherry Hills Drive in El Mirage when they got the call of someone trying to steal a car.
That turned into suspects hiding in bushes at a high school and then word of suspected drop house with a dead man inside.
"We have three people hiding out in a high school, a dead body and we have illegals all in this beautiful neighborhood," said neighbor Evelyn Matthews.
Matthews said she was prepared for the shock of what she heard and saw as the drama unfolded.
"I was in there watching the Cardinals game when all of the sudden I heard this boom," Matthews said.
When Matthews walked outside, she said she found a sheriff's SWAT team surrounding two homes in her normally quiet neighborhood.
"Supposedly someone from next door in a drop house broke into two houses down the street and they're hiding in them," Matthews said.
Jimmy Wren waited to hear if undocumented immigrants were still hiding out in his daughter's home while she was in Tucson.
We just put an alarm system in Friday," Wren said. "They broke into her house a week ago Friday."
Wren said a purse, a camera, a frozen chicken and some other little trinkets were stolen.
SWAT officers entered Wren's home first and then sent a robot and police dog into the two-story house next door, sheriff's deputies said.
Deputies said they had been tipped off they might find a man's body in the garage and two more people upstairs.
"They found a dead body that was beaten and shot and two others hiding with no clothes on," said Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the scene.
Deputies took four people into custody.
Arpaio credited the arrests to someone calling his undocumented migrant hotline to report the activity in the neighborhood.
"Why don't they come out here and see what illegal immigration does to a neighborhood," Arpaio said to critics of the hotline.
MSCO launched the controversial hotline in late July as a means to get tips about illegal immigration.
The victim is believed to be an undocumented immigrant, according to sheriff's investigators. Deputies said they are trying to unravel how the man died.