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    Local Sheriff Denies Violating Immigrant's Rights
    Friday, November 13, 2009
    John Patti and Associated Press


    Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is denying that two deputies violated the civil rights of a Salvadoran immigrant during an arrest last year.
    Jenkins responded Friday to a federal lawsuit filed by New York-based LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the state civil-rights group Casa de Maryland.

    He denies that the woman was targeted because she looked Hispanic.

    Jenkins says the deputies became suspicious of Roxana Orellana Santos because she tried to hide behind a shipping container after spotting their cruiser.
    He says they learned while checking her identification that she was wanted on a deportation arrest warrant, so they turned her over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    The woman won supervised release five weeks later and is fighting deportation.

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    FREDERICK COUNTY, MD - Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is responding to allegations the department overstepped their bounds during a recent arrest.

    Roxana Orellana Santos filed a lawsuit against the department Tuesday, saying officers exceeded their rights when they took her into custody last year.

    She claims she was eating lunch on a curb when officers approached her, asked her name, and then arrested her for being in the country illegally.

    Jenkins says the claims are "totally false" and that Orellana Santos tried to hide from police when they approached her.

    He says any officer in that position would run a check on a person's name and arrest them for any outstanding warrants.

    "Good police work would dictate the contact they made with someone acting suspiciously in that manner. And this is in fact a case of good police work," the sheriff asserts.

    Jenkins would not comment on where Orellana Santos is living right now. Authorities have said she was not deported.

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    Immigration Vigilantes or Deputies on Patrol?
    Frederick's sheriff tells his side of the arrest that sparked a lawsuit
    By ANNE REYNOLDS
    Updated 7:40 PM EST, Fri, Nov 13, 2009

    The Frederick County sheriff is speaking out about a civil rights lawsuit filed this week against him and his department.

    The suit stems from an arrest made in October 2008. It alleges that two deputies arrested Roxana Orellana Santos last fall solely because they believe she was in the country illegally.

    Attorneys from LatinoJustice and Casa de Maryland say Santos was eating her lunch one day when the officers approached her and started questioning her about her immigration status. She was arrested and spent the night in jail, before being transferred to a special holding jail for immigration cases. She said she spent 46 days there before being released.

    Today, Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins told a very different story about the circumstances surrounding the arrest.

    "Let me be clear, the statements and allegations made in the filing are inaccurate, misleading, and do not include all the facts," the Sheriff said Friday.

    According to the sheriff, the two deputies were on a routine patrol in the area when they spotted Santos. When she saw the deputies, they said she began acting suspicious and tried to hide from them, prompting the deputies to investigate what was going on. The sheriff said they asked her for identification, and when they ran her information through their computer, they discovered there were warrants out for her arrest.

    "They ran a check through NCIC, the check came back that she was wanted by ICE for an order of deportation arrest warrant," Jenkins told News 4. "She would have been taken by any law enforcement officer or agency in the state of Maryland or across this country."


    Sheriff Jenkins said the lawsuit is an attempt to derail Frederick County's participation in the federal 287g program. Under the program, specially trained deputies check the immigration status of everyone who is arrested. When they discover that someone is in the country illegally, immigration officials are notified.

    Jenkins said the deputies involved in this incident are not even involved in the program.

    First Published: Nov 13, 2009 7:09 PM EST

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    If you have a warrant against you, it is the duty of the police to arrest you. If any judge does not honor that, the judge should be immediately thrown into law school--freshman class.
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    Wow.. Its not she was in line at the grocery store and they identified her. She was trying to hide and she was acting suspicious. Of course they were going to check her out. Good police work!
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    Violation of Rights?

    Why in the world do these people think that they have the rights of U.S. citizens? They are not U.S. citizens they are here illegally and have no rights except to go home. Personally I think that we should give them to the Sheriff in AZ. that has been doing some good down there and have them put out on the chain gang and make them work for six months and earn the money to pay for their ticket back to Mexico or where ever they are from. They don't have the kind of rights that we have here in the United States at home but they think that just because they are here they have the same rights that myself and others have bled and died for, I bled for the Constitution of the United States and others that served with me died for that same document to procure freedom for the citizenry of this great nation and those that are here legally not for someone that is trying to steal our jobs and money from law abiding citizens. The Federal Government is trying to steal my rights and give them to someone that has no right to them and I am sick of it this is why I am no longer a Democrat nor a Republican, I have joined the Libertarian party who think the way that I do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vortex
    If you have a warrant against you, it is the duty of the police to arrest you. If any judge does not honor that, the judge should be immediately thrown into law school--freshman class.
    Actually, a legal education isn't required to become a judge the last time looked into it.

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