In violence sparked over romantic jealousy, a Chicago man is accused of gunning down an Addison high school senior on the eve of his graduation.
Luis Villavicencio-Serna, 19, was ordered held Wednesday in the DuPage County jail on a $5 million cash bond. Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder.
Police at 3:33 a.m. Saturday rushed to a 911 call of shots fired in an apartment complex parking lot on the 300 block of Dale Drive in Addison.
Armando Huerta Jr., 18, was conscious, but suffered gunshot wounds to his leg and lower back. The Addison Trail High School student, who lived in the apartment complex, was pronounced dead 14 hours later at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood.
A makeshift memorial remained erected Wednesday outside his apartment, where he lived with his family, including cousin Andres Chavez.
"We're all trying to remain strong," said Chavez, 20. "He was a really shy guy who loved to dance, work out and fix cars. He was counting the days until he graduated and was going to go back to Mexico for a big vacation."
Detectives caught a break in the murder investigation when they searched the slain teen's cellular phone and found a text message from a 16-year-old girl who had warned him to stop calling because it was angering her boyfriend.
Huerta and the girl previously dated, officials said.
"The defendant became angry and jealous with the victim for having continued contact with the defendant's girlfriend," prosecutor Thomas O'Connor told Associate Judge Peter Ostling. "Upon seeing the victim, he has some sort of hostile verbal altercation and then opened fired on him."
Police recovered five bullet casings at the crime scene, but Huerta suffered two gunshot wounds. A bullet in his back left him paralyzed when it severed an artery and ended up lodged in the teen's vertebrae.
Police said no one else is expected to be charged, but their investigation is ongoing.
"We've talked to dozens of witnesses and expect to obtain more information once we are done our search warrants and subpoenas are complete," said Addison police Detective Commander Mark Van Stedum.
He said the violence had "gang undertones," but that the girl was the "common thread" between Huerta and Villavicencio-Serna.
"Armando was never involved in a gang," his cousin, Chavez, said. "He had friends who were gang members a long time ago but we stopped hanging around with them because we didn't want to get into trouble."
Police caught up on Sunday with Villavicencio-Serna at his Chicago workplace. They also interviewed three witnesses who were with the defendant in a Cadillac that morning who said they saw him shoot Huerta. It is alleged the group circled Huerta's complex at least once before the fatal shooting.
Villavicencio-Serna, of the 2300 block of South Hamlin Avenue, Chicago, repeatedly shook his head "no" Wednesday as O'Connor detailed the allegations in bond court. Judge Ostling appointed a DuPage County assistant public defender to represent Villavicencio-Serna, who spoke through a Spanish interpreter.
O'Connor sought the high bond after arguing the defendant poses a flight risk because he is in the country illegally and still has family in Mexico, where he was born.
Huerta is survived by his parents, a 14-year-old brother and infant sister. Chavez said Huerta was born in the U.S., but his remains will be sent back to Mexico, where many relatives live.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
NC Drunk illegal kills boy CONVICTED
And another drunk driving illegal.........
Hernandez escaped several DWI convictions.
Boy's death means prison for Johnston man
Man repeatedly accused of DWI may then be deported
BY MANDY LOCKE, Staff Writer SMITHFIELD - Hipolito Zamora Hernandez didn't know 7-year-old Marcus Lassiter. He never meant him any particular harm; he never laid a hand on the boy.
But a jury decided Thursday that Hernandez had murdered Marcus, drinking himself nearly blind April 13, 2008, before driving a two-ton Chevrolet Camaro along the rural road beside which Marcus played.
Hernandez, a slight man who had carved out a life in Johnston County pouring concrete, could spend as long as 20 years in prison for second-degree murder. Immigration officials have vowed to deport him to Mexico after his release; he was living in the United States illegally.
On Thursday, moments before he was taken to prison, Hernandez, 31, declined the chance to say anything to the judge or to Marcus' family.
"The only thing that will stop this defendant from drinking and driving and risking everyone's life is prison," Susan Doyle, Johnston County district attorney, told the judge. She asked him to hand down the stiffest sentence. "He never learned his lesson," she said.
Hernandez evaded conviction several times before he killed Marcus. Three times since 2004, the courts dismissed driving-while-impaired charges. In 2007, when Hernandez was stopped again, he gave the officer a fake name. When he hit Marcus, another charge was pending against Hernandez.
"I am mad with the system," Marcus' mother, Sheila Lassiter, said Thursday. "I have no idea how this man got away with so much."
Doyle said Hernandez's record befuddled her, too. Last spring, Doyle instituted a policy prohibiting her assistants from dismissing DWI charges in an attempt to increase conviction rates.
A shattering death
Marcus' death shook Johnston County. It shattered his family.
His mother now spends evenings curled in his bed, trying to catch his lingering scent on his pajamas. Marcus was her youngest and an undeniable mama's boy. He was learning to play the drums at church; he had a tender heart and a hug for everyone he met, his family said.
His final day was as close to perfect as lazy spring Sundays can be.
The family had gathered at his grandmother's house in Four Oaks. Grandma and all the aunts were fixing supper in the kitchen. Kids played outside, plotting a game of basketball with some neighbor children.
The roar of a car engine pierced the calm. The women rushed to the window to check on the commotion. Sheila Lassiter saw her baby boy fly, knocked into the air by an out-of-control Camaro.
"That picture has stayed in my mind every waking minute since," Lassiter said as she waited for a jury to determine Hernandez's fate.
Lassiter raced to the yard, shouting Marcus' name. He lay still and silent in a ditch.
Hernandez stumbled from the cockeyed car, looked Lassiter's way and bolted toward a thicket of woods near Parkertown Road. It took a crew of officers and a specially trained canine about 45 minutes to capture him. Later, at the jail, more than two and a half hours after the crash, Hernandez's blood alcohol level registered .21. It is illegal to drive in North Carolina with a blood alcohol level of .08 or greater.
Marcus never woke after the crash. His brain was dead. Doctors kept his body alive through the night.
Now, pieces of him live on. Marcus' eyes gave a blind man sight. His kidney gave a 14-year-old the health to play basketball again. "That is my solace," Sheila Lassiter said.
Hernandez escaped several DWI convictions.
Boy's death means prison for Johnston man
Man repeatedly accused of DWI may then be deported
BY MANDY LOCKE, Staff Writer SMITHFIELD - Hipolito Zamora Hernandez didn't know 7-year-old Marcus Lassiter. He never meant him any particular harm; he never laid a hand on the boy.
But a jury decided Thursday that Hernandez had murdered Marcus, drinking himself nearly blind April 13, 2008, before driving a two-ton Chevrolet Camaro along the rural road beside which Marcus played.
Hernandez, a slight man who had carved out a life in Johnston County pouring concrete, could spend as long as 20 years in prison for second-degree murder. Immigration officials have vowed to deport him to Mexico after his release; he was living in the United States illegally.
On Thursday, moments before he was taken to prison, Hernandez, 31, declined the chance to say anything to the judge or to Marcus' family.
"The only thing that will stop this defendant from drinking and driving and risking everyone's life is prison," Susan Doyle, Johnston County district attorney, told the judge. She asked him to hand down the stiffest sentence. "He never learned his lesson," she said.
Hernandez evaded conviction several times before he killed Marcus. Three times since 2004, the courts dismissed driving-while-impaired charges. In 2007, when Hernandez was stopped again, he gave the officer a fake name. When he hit Marcus, another charge was pending against Hernandez.
"I am mad with the system," Marcus' mother, Sheila Lassiter, said Thursday. "I have no idea how this man got away with so much."
Doyle said Hernandez's record befuddled her, too. Last spring, Doyle instituted a policy prohibiting her assistants from dismissing DWI charges in an attempt to increase conviction rates.
A shattering death
Marcus' death shook Johnston County. It shattered his family.
His mother now spends evenings curled in his bed, trying to catch his lingering scent on his pajamas. Marcus was her youngest and an undeniable mama's boy. He was learning to play the drums at church; he had a tender heart and a hug for everyone he met, his family said.
His final day was as close to perfect as lazy spring Sundays can be.
The family had gathered at his grandmother's house in Four Oaks. Grandma and all the aunts were fixing supper in the kitchen. Kids played outside, plotting a game of basketball with some neighbor children.
The roar of a car engine pierced the calm. The women rushed to the window to check on the commotion. Sheila Lassiter saw her baby boy fly, knocked into the air by an out-of-control Camaro.
"That picture has stayed in my mind every waking minute since," Lassiter said as she waited for a jury to determine Hernandez's fate.
Lassiter raced to the yard, shouting Marcus' name. He lay still and silent in a ditch.
Hernandez stumbled from the cockeyed car, looked Lassiter's way and bolted toward a thicket of woods near Parkertown Road. It took a crew of officers and a specially trained canine about 45 minutes to capture him. Later, at the jail, more than two and a half hours after the crash, Hernandez's blood alcohol level registered .21. It is illegal to drive in North Carolina with a blood alcohol level of .08 or greater.
Marcus never woke after the crash. His brain was dead. Doctors kept his body alive through the night.
Now, pieces of him live on. Marcus' eyes gave a blind man sight. His kidney gave a 14-year-old the health to play basketball again. "That is my solace," Sheila Lassiter said.
IA Illegal rapist and murderer
Here we go again.........
Police: Intruder killed child while parents slept
By Meagan Sextonmsexton@siouxcityjournal.com Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2009
SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- A 29-year-old man is in custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted and killed a 3-year-old girl early Saturday morning as her family slept inside their South Sioux City home.Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City notified South Sioux City police around 5 a.m. after a 3-year-old girl was brought to the facility and pronounced dead on arrival, South Sioux City Police Chief Scot Ford said. Ford said the girl's mother discovered her after waking to feed another infant child."The perp broke into the house, sexually assaulted the child by raping and sodomizing her and then the child was killed. We believe by suffocation," Ford said. "The parents and two other family members were asleep at the residence when this occurred."Police said another young child who was at the home, which police described as small but with at least two bedrooms, helped them identify the suspect as De Jesus Melisio-Camacho, who was living in Sioux City with several other men. Melisio-Camacho is charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault and burglary, all felonies.Ford said police and officials with Immigration Customs Enforcement are examining Melisio-Camacho's immigration status.Ford said an officer stopped Melisio-Camacho near the home at 3:45 a.m. Saturday but let him go, unaware of the crime he's accused of committing. That contact, however, helped police put the suspect in the area when they believe the crime occurred, between 1 and 3:30 a.m.Ford said it has been determined the suspect was an acquaintance of the family, but a motive is not yet known."We do not have an actual motive at this point," Ford said. "That is probably one of the most exasperating parts of it."Ford declined to offer more information regarding the case.Sioux City Police Sgt. Mike Post said the suspect was found and taken into custody prior to 6 a.m. in Sioux City."The cooperation on this investigation was just outstanding," Ford said. "We had extreme cooperation from the Sioux City Police Department, Mercy's Child Advocacy Center, Nebraska State Patrol and from ICE officials out of Sioux City."Melisio-Camacho is being held for Nebraska in the Woodbury County Jail.Ford said officials will be filing extradition warrants to return the suspect to Nebraska, but there isn't a timeframe because of the holiday weekend."We don't know if he'll waive or fight extradition," he said. "At this point we are continuing to gather and analyze physical evidence in preparation of the case against him."
Police: Intruder killed child while parents slept
By Meagan Sextonmsexton@siouxcityjournal.com Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2009
SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- A 29-year-old man is in custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted and killed a 3-year-old girl early Saturday morning as her family slept inside their South Sioux City home.Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City notified South Sioux City police around 5 a.m. after a 3-year-old girl was brought to the facility and pronounced dead on arrival, South Sioux City Police Chief Scot Ford said. Ford said the girl's mother discovered her after waking to feed another infant child."The perp broke into the house, sexually assaulted the child by raping and sodomizing her and then the child was killed. We believe by suffocation," Ford said. "The parents and two other family members were asleep at the residence when this occurred."Police said another young child who was at the home, which police described as small but with at least two bedrooms, helped them identify the suspect as De Jesus Melisio-Camacho, who was living in Sioux City with several other men. Melisio-Camacho is charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault and burglary, all felonies.Ford said police and officials with Immigration Customs Enforcement are examining Melisio-Camacho's immigration status.Ford said an officer stopped Melisio-Camacho near the home at 3:45 a.m. Saturday but let him go, unaware of the crime he's accused of committing. That contact, however, helped police put the suspect in the area when they believe the crime occurred, between 1 and 3:30 a.m.Ford said it has been determined the suspect was an acquaintance of the family, but a motive is not yet known."We do not have an actual motive at this point," Ford said. "That is probably one of the most exasperating parts of it."Ford declined to offer more information regarding the case.Sioux City Police Sgt. Mike Post said the suspect was found and taken into custody prior to 6 a.m. in Sioux City."The cooperation on this investigation was just outstanding," Ford said. "We had extreme cooperation from the Sioux City Police Department, Mercy's Child Advocacy Center, Nebraska State Patrol and from ICE officials out of Sioux City."Melisio-Camacho is being held for Nebraska in the Woodbury County Jail.Ford said officials will be filing extradition warrants to return the suspect to Nebraska, but there isn't a timeframe because of the holiday weekend."We don't know if he'll waive or fight extradition," he said. "At this point we are continuing to gather and analyze physical evidence in preparation of the case against him."
Monday, May 18, 2009
NY Illegals run brothel
Newsday.com
Cops: Southampton brothel busted
BY DAVID J. LOPEZ
9:33 PM EDT, May 18, 2009
Two men and two women were arrested after a probe determined that a Southampton man was running a brothel out of his home, police said.
Luis Ortiz-Parra, 37, brought prostitutes from as far as Queens to serve "a clientele of between 30 and 40 johns each night of the week," Southampton Town police said in a Saturday news release announcing the four arrests and the brothel's closure.
Ortiz-Parra, of 46 Longview Rd., was charged with third-degree promoting prostitution, a felony, and second-degree criminal nuisance, a misdemeanor, police said. Two Queens women, ages 31 and 33, were charged with prostitution, a misdemeanor.
Pablo Estanle Calle Mendez, 34, of West Neck Road, Southampton, was charged with third-degree patronizing a prostitute, a misdemeanor, police said. The four suspects are in the United States illegally and were reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they said.
The arrests came as a result of an undercover investigation by the town police Street Crime Unit, which looked into a reported house of prostitution at Ortiz-Parra's home, authorities said.
Two women worked each evening, and Parra paid them $20 per customer and he would collect between $30 and $40, netting him a daily profit of $300 to $800, police said.
The investigation is continuing and more arrests are expected, police said.
Cops: Southampton brothel busted
BY DAVID J. LOPEZ
9:33 PM EDT, May 18, 2009
Two men and two women were arrested after a probe determined that a Southampton man was running a brothel out of his home, police said.
Luis Ortiz-Parra, 37, brought prostitutes from as far as Queens to serve "a clientele of between 30 and 40 johns each night of the week," Southampton Town police said in a Saturday news release announcing the four arrests and the brothel's closure.
Ortiz-Parra, of 46 Longview Rd., was charged with third-degree promoting prostitution, a felony, and second-degree criminal nuisance, a misdemeanor, police said. Two Queens women, ages 31 and 33, were charged with prostitution, a misdemeanor.
Pablo Estanle Calle Mendez, 34, of West Neck Road, Southampton, was charged with third-degree patronizing a prostitute, a misdemeanor, police said. The four suspects are in the United States illegally and were reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they said.
The arrests came as a result of an undercover investigation by the town police Street Crime Unit, which looked into a reported house of prostitution at Ortiz-Parra's home, authorities said.
Two women worked each evening, and Parra paid them $20 per customer and he would collect between $30 and $40, netting him a daily profit of $300 to $800, police said.
The investigation is continuing and more arrests are expected, police said.
DC Illegal hog ties widows
Illegal immigrant convicted of hog-tyings, murderBy: Freeman Klopott
Examiner Staff Writer
05/16/09 10:05 PM EDT
A 34-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador was found guilty of murdering a 63-year-old Bethesda woman and hog-tying and robbing three other widows.
A Montgomery County jury on Friday agreed with prosecutors that Jose Garcia-Perlera attacked the elderly women in their homes along the River Road corridor in Bethesda, Potomac and Chevy Chase. He beat Mary Havenstein, the woman in his last attack, to death.
When Garcia-Perlera was arrested in October, his case became the first of several attacks allegedly committed by illegal immigrants in Montgomery County that got media attention. Those crimes, including the shooting death of 14-year-old Tai Lam on a county bus, eventually led County Executive Ike Leggett to change the county’s policy regarding illegal immigrants. As of January, anyone accused of certain violent crimes has their name sent to federal officials who check their immigration status. The attacks against the four widowed women shook one of the wealthiest sections of the county to the core. As Garcia-Perlera’s attorney Samuel Delgado put it in his closing arguments Friday, “We know from evidence that we’re talking about affluent neighborhoods ... beautiful homes, beautiful lawns and art.”
“When something happens out there, the police respond and they respond quickly,” he said.
That they did, pressing hard on the investigation that stretched from the first attack in September 2007 and through Havenstein’s September 2008 murder.
Police collected Garcia-Perlera’s DNA evidence from three of the crime scenes, although they didn’t know it was his until after his Oct. 15 arrest. On that day, police searched his apartment and found dozens of items stolen from the women’s homes.
Delgado argued that although Garcia-Perlera was a thief who “dabbled” in buying stolen property, “a thief does not a murderer make.”
But the jury was not convinced.
On Friday, they convicted Garcia-Perlera of murdering Havenstein. Added to that were four counts of burglary, four counts of false imprisonment for hog-tying the women, three counts of robbery, one count of armed robbery and one count of first-degree assault.
In his closing argument Friday, Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy described the hog-tying and beatings the women received as “overkill.”
“He treated these women like animals,” McCarthy said. “You don’t hog-tie people, you hog-tie animals.”
He could be sentenced to prison for hundreds of years.
Examiner Staff Writer
05/16/09 10:05 PM EDT
A 34-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador was found guilty of murdering a 63-year-old Bethesda woman and hog-tying and robbing three other widows.
A Montgomery County jury on Friday agreed with prosecutors that Jose Garcia-Perlera attacked the elderly women in their homes along the River Road corridor in Bethesda, Potomac and Chevy Chase. He beat Mary Havenstein, the woman in his last attack, to death.
When Garcia-Perlera was arrested in October, his case became the first of several attacks allegedly committed by illegal immigrants in Montgomery County that got media attention. Those crimes, including the shooting death of 14-year-old Tai Lam on a county bus, eventually led County Executive Ike Leggett to change the county’s policy regarding illegal immigrants. As of January, anyone accused of certain violent crimes has their name sent to federal officials who check their immigration status. The attacks against the four widowed women shook one of the wealthiest sections of the county to the core. As Garcia-Perlera’s attorney Samuel Delgado put it in his closing arguments Friday, “We know from evidence that we’re talking about affluent neighborhoods ... beautiful homes, beautiful lawns and art.”
“When something happens out there, the police respond and they respond quickly,” he said.
That they did, pressing hard on the investigation that stretched from the first attack in September 2007 and through Havenstein’s September 2008 murder.
Police collected Garcia-Perlera’s DNA evidence from three of the crime scenes, although they didn’t know it was his until after his Oct. 15 arrest. On that day, police searched his apartment and found dozens of items stolen from the women’s homes.
Delgado argued that although Garcia-Perlera was a thief who “dabbled” in buying stolen property, “a thief does not a murderer make.”
But the jury was not convinced.
On Friday, they convicted Garcia-Perlera of murdering Havenstein. Added to that were four counts of burglary, four counts of false imprisonment for hog-tying the women, three counts of robbery, one count of armed robbery and one count of first-degree assault.
In his closing argument Friday, Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy described the hog-tying and beatings the women received as “overkill.”
“He treated these women like animals,” McCarthy said. “You don’t hog-tie people, you hog-tie animals.”
He could be sentenced to prison for hundreds of years.
OK Illegal brothers murder
Illegal Immigrant Brothers Arrested For Homicide
posted 2:35 pm Mon May 18, 2009 - Woodward
from NewsChannel 8 - http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0509/623871.html
Two illegal immigrant brothers have been arrested in connection with the strangulation death of another man in Woodward County.It happened over the weekend in Mooreland. That's in northwestern Oklahoma, about 185 miles west of Tulsa. Officials say Antonio Velasquez left his job at a hog farm to collect money from another man who also worked at the hog farm.Investigators say Velasquez went to the home of brothers Julio Juarez Ramos and Isidio Juarez Ramos, where Velasquez was strangled to death. Authorities say the brothers dumped Velasquez's body near an oil lease south of Mooreland.Enid police spotted the brothers driving Velasquez's car after a "be on the lookout" message was issued. Both were arrested and eventually led officials to Velasquez's body on Sunday.Both brothers have been booked into the Woodward County Jail on complaints of first-degree murder. The OSBI says the brothers are illegal immigrants from Guatemala.
posted 2:35 pm Mon May 18, 2009 - Woodward
from NewsChannel 8 - http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0509/623871.html
Two illegal immigrant brothers have been arrested in connection with the strangulation death of another man in Woodward County.It happened over the weekend in Mooreland. That's in northwestern Oklahoma, about 185 miles west of Tulsa. Officials say Antonio Velasquez left his job at a hog farm to collect money from another man who also worked at the hog farm.Investigators say Velasquez went to the home of brothers Julio Juarez Ramos and Isidio Juarez Ramos, where Velasquez was strangled to death. Authorities say the brothers dumped Velasquez's body near an oil lease south of Mooreland.Enid police spotted the brothers driving Velasquez's car after a "be on the lookout" message was issued. Both were arrested and eventually led officials to Velasquez's body on Sunday.Both brothers have been booked into the Woodward County Jail on complaints of first-degree murder. The OSBI says the brothers are illegal immigrants from Guatemala.
TN Mother's Day murder
Man Wanted for Mother's Day Murder Captured in Mount Airy
Staff Writer
May 17, 2009
A man wanted in connection with the Mother's Day murder of a Tennessee woman has been captured in the Piedmont.U.S. Marshals arrested Carmen Vences Friday in Mount Airy. He has been transferred to the Forsyth County jail.The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Vences is accused of killing Adelina Delasancha at a May 10 party in Morristown, which is in northeastern Tennessee.Authorities said Delasancha, 40, is the mother of Vences' five children. Her youngest children reportedly saw Vences shoot their mother.There is a discrepancy regarding Vences name and age. Tennessee authorities are searching for Carmen Vences, age 41. Jail officials have the suspect listed as Carmello Vences with an age of 43.Authorities believe they have captured the right person.Vences faces first degree murder charges in Hamblen County, Tennessee.
Staff Writer
May 17, 2009
A man wanted in connection with the Mother's Day murder of a Tennessee woman has been captured in the Piedmont.U.S. Marshals arrested Carmen Vences Friday in Mount Airy. He has been transferred to the Forsyth County jail.The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Vences is accused of killing Adelina Delasancha at a May 10 party in Morristown, which is in northeastern Tennessee.Authorities said Delasancha, 40, is the mother of Vences' five children. Her youngest children reportedly saw Vences shoot their mother.There is a discrepancy regarding Vences name and age. Tennessee authorities are searching for Carmen Vences, age 41. Jail officials have the suspect listed as Carmello Vences with an age of 43.Authorities believe they have captured the right person.Vences faces first degree murder charges in Hamblen County, Tennessee.
NC Rape suspect
More charges filed against man accused of Rape
May 18, 2009 - 3:07 PM
Times-News
A man charged last week with raping a girl faced additional charges Monday.
The Alamance County Sheriff's Department charged Marco Antonio Lopez, 34, of Kernodle Lane, Graham with first-degree sex offense, indecent liberties with a minor and incest. The additional charges involve the same girl, who authorities say is younger than 16, according to a sheriff's department news release.
Lopez was charged Thursday with first-degree rape of a child after the sheriff's department was contacted by the Department of Social Services. He was in Alamance County jail under $200,000 bond.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed an immigration detainer against Lopez.
May 18, 2009 - 3:07 PM
Times-News
A man charged last week with raping a girl faced additional charges Monday.
The Alamance County Sheriff's Department charged Marco Antonio Lopez, 34, of Kernodle Lane, Graham with first-degree sex offense, indecent liberties with a minor and incest. The additional charges involve the same girl, who authorities say is younger than 16, according to a sheriff's department news release.
Lopez was charged Thursday with first-degree rape of a child after the sheriff's department was contacted by the Department of Social Services. He was in Alamance County jail under $200,000 bond.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed an immigration detainer against Lopez.
CA Illegal kidnapper of girl
Kidnapping suspect on immigration hold
By From staff reportsOriginally published 08:17 a.m., May 18, 2009Updated 02:01 p.m., May 18, 2009
The man arrested in connection with the abduction of a toddler from her Oxnard home last week is ineligible for bail because of an alleged immigration violation, according to jail booking records.
Carlos Garcia Morales, 23, of Oxnard is being held on suspicion of entering the country illegally in addition to charges of kidnapping, rape and burglary, booking records show.
Garcia Morales was also booked into jail on warrants for misdemeanor drunken driving and battery. He was found guilty in March 2008 of driving under the influence of alcohol, and he pled guilty in August 2008 to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge, records show.
When he pleaded guilty to the battery charge, Garcia Morales pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor sex charge, which was later dismissed.
Garcia Morales was arrested early Friday morning after authorities found him in a car with a 20-month-old girl abducted from her home in the 100 block of South McKinley Avenue less than two hours before, police said.
Garcia Morales allegedly entered the child’s home, took her from her parents’ bed and left on foot, police said. Detectives believe he was unknown to the victim.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Ventura County Superior Court.
By From staff reportsOriginally published 08:17 a.m., May 18, 2009Updated 02:01 p.m., May 18, 2009
The man arrested in connection with the abduction of a toddler from her Oxnard home last week is ineligible for bail because of an alleged immigration violation, according to jail booking records.
Carlos Garcia Morales, 23, of Oxnard is being held on suspicion of entering the country illegally in addition to charges of kidnapping, rape and burglary, booking records show.
Garcia Morales was also booked into jail on warrants for misdemeanor drunken driving and battery. He was found guilty in March 2008 of driving under the influence of alcohol, and he pled guilty in August 2008 to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge, records show.
When he pleaded guilty to the battery charge, Garcia Morales pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor sex charge, which was later dismissed.
Garcia Morales was arrested early Friday morning after authorities found him in a car with a 20-month-old girl abducted from her home in the 100 block of South McKinley Avenue less than two hours before, police said.
Garcia Morales allegedly entered the child’s home, took her from her parents’ bed and left on foot, police said. Detectives believe he was unknown to the victim.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Ventura County Superior Court.
CA Illegal kidnappers
2 illegal immigrants accused of taking Southern California boy
Associated Press
Posted: 05/18/2009 06:42:10 PM PDT
Updated: 05/18/2009 06:42:12 PM PDT
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Arrest warrants have been issued for two illegal immigrants suspected of bursting into a family's home and kidnapping a 3-year-old who was later found wandering the streets in Mexico, authorities said Monday.
The suspects, both believed to be hiding in Mexico, are accused of taking Briant Rodriguez on May 3 after tying up his mother and four of his siblings. No motive has been released.
Authorities said they found evidence at the crime scene that links Israel Ledesma Moreno, 27, and Liberato Vega, 30, to the kidnapping. State and federal warrants were issued against both men, who were in the country illegally and have a history of minor crimes in Southern California, FBI and San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said.
Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Phelps declined to comment on whether the men knew Briant's family.
Mexican authorities found Briant wandering the streets of Mexicali and contacted U.S. authorities, who brought him back across the border and reunited him with his mother on Saturday.
Phelps said the boy was mildly malnourished and remained in the hospital Monday for observation.
Officials said they also want to interview Vega's girlfriend, 21-year-old Claudia Acosta-Serrano.
Vega and Moreno have been arrested in recent years for several alleged offenses, including drunken driving, drug use, driving with a suspended license and lying to police. The FBI said the pair had also been charged with fleeing California to avoid state charges and had previously been deported.
Detectives had few leads on the kidnapping until a surveillance camera from a store showed the suspect's faces the day Briant was kidnapped from his home in a lower-income area near the city of San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Associated Press
Posted: 05/18/2009 06:42:10 PM PDT
Updated: 05/18/2009 06:42:12 PM PDT
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Arrest warrants have been issued for two illegal immigrants suspected of bursting into a family's home and kidnapping a 3-year-old who was later found wandering the streets in Mexico, authorities said Monday.
The suspects, both believed to be hiding in Mexico, are accused of taking Briant Rodriguez on May 3 after tying up his mother and four of his siblings. No motive has been released.
Authorities said they found evidence at the crime scene that links Israel Ledesma Moreno, 27, and Liberato Vega, 30, to the kidnapping. State and federal warrants were issued against both men, who were in the country illegally and have a history of minor crimes in Southern California, FBI and San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said.
Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Phelps declined to comment on whether the men knew Briant's family.
Mexican authorities found Briant wandering the streets of Mexicali and contacted U.S. authorities, who brought him back across the border and reunited him with his mother on Saturday.
Phelps said the boy was mildly malnourished and remained in the hospital Monday for observation.
Officials said they also want to interview Vega's girlfriend, 21-year-old Claudia Acosta-Serrano.
Vega and Moreno have been arrested in recent years for several alleged offenses, including drunken driving, drug use, driving with a suspended license and lying to police. The FBI said the pair had also been charged with fleeing California to avoid state charges and had previously been deported.
Detectives had few leads on the kidnapping until a surveillance camera from a store showed the suspect's faces the day Briant was kidnapped from his home in a lower-income area near the city of San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
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