UTAH Millard County deputy shot, killed by illegal immigrant
Posted on Tuesday, January 05 @ 12:31:46 EST
Topic: illegal immigration alien riots crimes
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 A Millard County sheriff's deputy was shot and
killed early Tuesday, and a statewide manhunt for the suspect may have
narrowed down to a few blocks of west Salt Lake City.
Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox was gunned down about 1 a.m. during a
traffic stop a mile east of Delta. Her body was found by a second
deputy, who was responding to her request for backup. Fox, a mother of
two, had been with the Millard County Sheriff's Department five years.
Topics: police, cops, murder, illegal, alien, immigrant, immigration, gunman, fugitive, Utah
By Bob Mims and Nate Carlisle
The Salt Lek Tribune
Updated: 01/05/2010
Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Nigbur identified
the "prime suspect" sought in the shooting as Roberto Miramontes Roman.
He is described as a 37-year-old Latino, 5-foot-7, 130 pounds, with
brown hair and brown eyes.
Roman is possibly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, and is considered
dangerous. Anyone with information on Roman's whereabouts is urged to
immediately call 911.
"We have information that he's not going to be taken alive," Nigbur said.
Roman has a significant criminal history, including drug offenses, and a court-ordered illegal immigration-related deportation.
Millard County officials said the suspect vehicle, an orange Corvette,
had been stopped as part of an investigation into recent thefts. The
suspect had sped away from the scene by the time the second deputy
arrived.
The search the suspect quickly focused to Salt Lake City, where police
found a vehicle -- believed to be the Corvette -- near 300 South and
1100 West. Police also were keeping a lookout for a gray 1995 Cadillac
Deville, license plate number 713-PAB, that the suspect may now be
driving.
By 7 a.m., SWAT officers were seen in the area of 300 South and 1100
West. Police would not confirm that they may have located the suspect,
though it appeared a containment area was being set up. Two local
schools -- Guadalupe and Franklin -- were closed and traffic through
the area blocked while officers went door-to-door, searching for the
suspect.
Nigbur said three SWAT teams were deployed in the area, focusing on
"two or three" homes believed to be occupied by relatives of the
suspect. No neighborhood evacuations were immediately ordered, however.
Roman has a criminal history beginning in 1992 with a misdemeanor drug
distribution charge to which he pleaded guilty in Fillmore's 4th
District Court.
Then in 1996 and 1997, Roman was charged in Millard County with a
handful of felonies in two different cases, including drug charges,
receiving stolen property and a weapons count.
He resolved the cases by pleading guilty to one count of third-degree
felony drug possession and one count of second-degree felony drug
possession with intent to distribute.
Utah Board of Pardons and Parole spokesman Jim Hatch said Roman was sentenced to prison for up to 15 years in June 1997.
Roman was released into the custody of Immigration authorities on Sept. 15, 1998 and deported.
Court records show that at the time the crimes were committed, Roman
was a resident of Delta. All three cases were investigated by the
Millard County Sheriff's Office.
Meanwhile, in Millard County, law enforcement ordered closure of U.S.
50 in both directions just east of Delta as their investigation into
the slaying got under way this morning. The road has since been
reopened, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.
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