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- Dragged woman was mother of three
- Mexican Leader Knocks U.S. Crime Rates - after being part of the plan to export Mex criminals to U.S.
U.S. officials have criticized the high murder and kidnapping rates in Mexican border cities and the danger they pose to Americans. The U.S. ambassador recently advised U.S. citizens to exercise extreme caution when traveling in Mexico.
- Aurora Torres, the suspected smuggler, was behind the wheel.
- Plea Bargain Is Close in Cali Drug Case
Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela would probably spend the rest of their lives in U.S. prison
- Corruption Involving Mostly 'Hispanic' U.S. Immigration Employees
In the past 12 months, dozens of U.S. immigration employees have been accused of corruption-related charges. Some cases, drawn from a review of court records and government announcements, and listed by agency:
- Fernando Arango, a Customs officer in Nogales, Ariz., is set for trial in November on bribery and drug charges.
- Lizandro Martinez, a Customs officer for 14 years, faces up to life in prison at his scheduled October sentencing for allowing drugs through
- Michael Carlos Gonzalez, an Arizona Border Patrol agent, is scheduled for trial in October on charges of possession with intent to distribute marijuana
- Mario Alvarez and Samuel McClaren, California Border Patrol supervisory agents, are scheduled for sentencing Sept. 29 and face up to 18 years in prison on bribery and tax charges
- Oscar Antonio Ortiz, a Border Patrol agent in El Cajon, Calif., was sentenced in July to five years in prison for conspiring to bring at least 100 illegal immigrants
- Richard Elizalda, a Customs officer since 1996, was charged in June with accepting cash bribes and a 2000 Lexus
- abian Solis, a Customs officer in Texas, was sentenced in February to three years in prison for conspiring to smuggle undocumented migrants for money
- Juan Alfredo Alvarez, a senior Border Patrol agent stationed in Hebbronville, Texas, was sentenced in February to 20 years in prison on bribery and drug conspiracy charges.
- Jorge Reyeros, a supervisory Customs inspector who worked out of Port Elizabeth, N.J., and Newark Liberty International Airport, was sentenced in January to 24 years in prison for conspiring with his brother and Colombian drug traffickers to import cocaine.
- Agent Aldo Manuel Erives worked with his brother to smuggle cocaine and 750 illegal migrants
- Santiago Efrain Valle, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, Texas, was charged in March with trying to extort $20,000
- Rafael Francisco Pacheco, an ICE agent in Tampa, Fla., who previously worked as a special agent with the U.S. Customs Service, was sentenced in March to seven years in prison for taking almost $18,000 in bribes
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TACOMA, Wash. -- Tensions were high in a Tacoma courtroom Wednesday when a man who pleaded guilty to killing three people told the victims' families to "get over it." Ulysses Handy, 24, will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to murder charges to avoid a possible death penalty. He shot 28-year old Darren Christian, 20-year old Daniel Varo and 21-year old Lindy Cochran to death in February during a robbery at a Tacoma home. The three were his friends. Handy smirked in court as relatives of the victims talked about their loss. When it was his turn to speak, Handy said he was asking for no sympathy because he doesn't have any. Handy showed no remorse as he addressed the court Wednesday, "I feel there's two types of people in this world, us and them, predator and prey. Well, I'm damn sure not a prey. So, I know there's people up in here hurt. Well, pain's a part of life, deal with it, get over it." As friends and family of the victims spoke, Handy would laugh or stare directly at them. - (Newsroom) - (crime) - (Black-on-white) - "With friends like these..." 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A judge sentenced two men to death Thursday for the bloody beating deaths of six people over a video-game system. The defense attorneys for ringleader Troy Victorino, 29, and Jerone Hunter, 20, had argued that the men should be spared because they had mental problems. They were convicted in July of first-degree murder for the slaughter at a Deltona home in August 2004. The jury had recommended death, and Chief Circuit Judge Bill Parsons made the final decision between that and life in prison without parole. "The victims were not only killed, they were brutalized," Parsons said. - (Newsroom) - (crime) 
Psa 55:15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them. 
FARGO, N.D. — Jurors have decided 
CASTLE ROCK, Colorado (AP) -- A woman dragged to her death behind a vehicle was identified as a mother of three from the Mexican state of Guerrero, the Mexican consul general said. 
The armed man who burst into the U.S. Capitol on Monday morning was ordered held in jail for the next 10 days and to undergo medical or psychiatric treatment after testing positive for drug use. Carlos Greene, 20, said little during his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola yesterday. Wearing a white jail jumpsuit, he appeared to breathe heavily at times and close his eyes. He thanked the judge on his way out of the courtroom. Greene is accused of barreling a sport-utility vehicle through a construction entrance at the Capitol about 7:45 a.m. Monday, smashing into a concrete barrier and sprinting into the building. Police chased him to the basement and arrested him after a struggle. Authorities then discovered that Greene had a loaded gun in his waistband. No one was hurt during the incident. 
The 57-year-old Melton was indicted last week on malicious-mischief and burglary charges, accused of leading a group of teenagers with sledgehammers in smashing up a house that he claimed was a drug den. He was also charged with carrying a gun on school property. 