Thread: Man shot by deputy in Mesa, AZ. was illegal (update)

MCSO: Man shot by deputy in Mesa was undocumented immigrant

Posted: 01/17/2011
Last Updated: 1 hour and 12 minutes ago
By: Erisa Nakano

MESA, AZ - Authorities say a man who was fatally shot by a deputy after pointing a weapon at the deputy in a threatening manner in Mesa was an undocumented immigrant.

The suspect died Monday morning from his injuries, said spokesman Jeff Sprong with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

Sprong said the deputies responded to a call of shots fired around 10:30 p.m. near Ellsworth and Broadway roads.

It was determined that 47-year-old Felipe Ramirez Castellanos was in an argument with his wife and was leaving the residence in a vehicle. Castellanos reportedly fired several rounds from his vehicle in an unknown direction.

When deputies arrived, they stopped a vehicle backing out of the driveway of the home driven by Castellanos, Sprong said.

As a deputy approached the driver’s side door, Castellanos rolled down the window and pulled out an AK47 assault rifle and pointed it at the deputy in a threatening manner, Sprong said.

The deputy then reportedly fired his handgun at Castellanos and struck him in the hip and head.

Castellanos was taken to the Maricopa County Medical Center with life-threatening injuries where he later died.

Castellanos had 30 rounds in the magazine attached to the assault rifle, Sprong said. Detectives also found an additional 30 rounds of AK47 ammunition and a handgun with Castellanos.

It’s unclear what Castellanos was planning to do with all the ammunition.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_so ... a-has-died

MCSO Press Release

http://www.mcso.org/include/pr_pdf/Micr ... 200117.pdf

I am sure he would obey stronger gun control laws since he obeys immigration laws. When guns are banned, only bad people have guns.

I'm glad the officer had time to defend himself, I'm just wondering how long it's gonna be before they start protesting over this.

As usual no comments were allowed on this by the Arizona Republic because it is an illegal alien story. They are reporting the guy was deported before in 1986 for human smuggling and then given a visa a few years later. He overstayed his visa until this recent incident. Here is what they reported.


Arpaio said Castellanos served 90 days in jail for a human-smuggling charge in 1986. He legally returned to the United States under a worker's Visa in 1997, but apparently overstayed that Visa.

Castellanos was stopped for a traffic violation April 3, and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Additional details were not immediately available.


Apparently DHS says it is ok to be a human smuggler and still be issued a VISA to come in legally. Recently stopped by a law enforcement officer and turned over to ICE yet here he is back in the USA pointing AK-47 at law enforcement. This is crazy how DHS treats our immigration laws with suck recklessness!!!





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Originally Posted by PatriotAZGUY

. . . Apparently DHS says it is ok to be a human smuggler and still be issued a VISA to come in legally. . .

I think a conviction of a misdemeanor excludes you from the country for 10 years.
That seems to be the case here since he only got 90 days.
(If it were a felony he would have gotten 1 year or more, I think.)

Arpaio said Castellanos served 90 days in jail for a human-smuggling charge in 1986. He legally returned to the United States under a worker's Visa in 1997, but apparently overstayed that Visa.

Immigrant killed by deputy had troubled past
by JJ Hensley - Mar. 25, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic


When Felipe Ramirez Castellanos stood in front of an immigration judge in Arizona last April, the end of his time in the U.S. must have seemed near.

With an immigration history that included arrest for human smuggling and a denied visa application, Castellanos was brought before the judge after a traffic stop in Pinal County. Without money to pay the $7,500 bond, some combination of prison and deportation was likely on the horizon.

Instead, Castellanos walked out of the courtroom pending a removal hearing that never occurred.

Within nine months, Castellanos was dead, shot at close range by a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy in front of the east Mesa home Castellanos shared with his family.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio believes Deputy Miles Antwiler was protecting the public when he held his service revolver near Castellanos' head and pulled the trigger, the bullet entering Castellanos' skull between his eye and his ear and lodging in his brain.

Castellanos died at the Maricopa Medical Center two days later.

"I think the deputy is probably a hero," Arpaio said. "He might have saved a lot of lives that night."

The night began normally for the Castellanos family, according to a detective's interview with Juana Ramirez, Castellanos' wife. But after the children went to bed, Ramirez said she began questioning Castellanos about his drug use. He became angry.

As he left the house, he fired at least two gunshots into the air, startling the neighbors, who called 911.

Sheriff's deputies swarmed to the area. Castellanos left, then came back to his house about the same time Antwiler arrived. Castellanos backed his car out of the driveway, ignoring the deputy's orders, according to Antwiler's statement.

Antwiler got out of his car as Castellanos sat idling in the cul-de-sac. According to a neighbor who saw the incident, Antwiler walked toward Castellanos' SUV, shouting for him to stop.

When Antwiler got to the SUV, Castellanos rolled down the window and raised an assault rifle with the muzzle up. Antwiler saw the rifle and fired off three rounds before his gun jammed.

When paramedics pulled Castellanos' body from his SUV, they found his assault rifle with more than 30 rounds of ammunition and a handgun.

"The guy comes out of a house with all that firepower and gets in a car and points a gun at my deputy. What was he (the deputy) supposed to do?" Arpaio asked.

The events that unfolded Jan. 14 on East Crescent Avenue, a working-class neighborhood of homes surrounded by chain-link fences, ended Castellanos' 25-year journey through the U.S. immigration system.

Castellanos was first arrested in January 1986 and charged with transporting illegal immigrants into the United States, according to records released through the Sheriff's Office.

More than a decade later, Castellanos was lawfully admitted to the country as a non-immigrant - a designation that allows someone to remain legally for a specific purpose, such as work or school, and for a determined period of time.

Like many, Castellanos "remained unlawfully present in the United States after his permit expired," the files state.

While Castellanos was in the country unlawfully in 2001, he applied for a visa, which was denied in 2004. Castellanos would not have a problem with his immigration status again until he was with two others who were stopped in Pinal County in April 2010 for speeding and passing cars in the right-hand-turn lane.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents picked up Castellanos from the traffic stop and took him to a U.S. detention center. Less than two weeks later, he was released from custody after the immigration hearing.

Representatives from the Executive Office for Immigration Review did not return requests for comment Thursday about Castellanos' case, but federal officials have been consistent in their stance that factors such as prior deportation orders, criminal histories and family ties in the United States weigh heavily on whether a person is held in custody while removal proceedings are pending.

Castellanos never made it back to his immigration hearing.

Castellanos' wife told investigators she believed that her husband had a mental disorder and that he was paranoid, believing the police were following him.

"She has had numerous conversations with her husband about this situation and told him that no one was following him," the sheriff's report said. "She said he reacted by becoming quite angry and would have an outburst that people did not believe him and thought he was crazy."


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"The guy comes out of a house with all that firepower and gets in a car and points a gun at my deputy. What was he (the deputy) supposed to do?" Arpaio asked.

Point well taken Sheriff Joe. Now let's see if the AK-47 turns up as one of the guns allowed to cross the border, if it came BACK across the border this will add fuel to the fire of the ATF's operation! It will also prove Nappy is lying about the border ( as always).

Glad deputy is ok.Sounded like he did what he had to do.Seams like the illegal thought he was above the law.He just kept thumbing his nose at law he broke already but i guess he wont anymore.

The slant this article has taken (in favor of this illegal invader) by the a AZ Central is sickening!

Take this passage:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio believes Deputy Miles Antwiler was protecting the public when he held his service revolver near Castellanos' head and pulled the trigger, the bullet entering Castellanos' skull between his eye and his ear and lodging in his brain.

Castellanos died at the Maricopa Medical Center two days later.

The are making it sound as if the deputy executed this illegal invader, with the approval of Sheriff Joe! This is disgusting!

However, the very first sentence in this story sets the tone for the remainder of the article:

When Felipe Ramirez Castellanos stood in front of an immigration judge in Arizona last April, the end of his time in the U.S. must have seemed near.

In other words, his ensuing actions against the police officers in which he attempted to kill them, was done under the belief he was going to be deported soon! Again, they are trying to put into context the illegal invader's actions.

Castellanos' wife told investigators she believed that her husband had a mental disorder and that he was paranoid, believing the police were following him.

I get it...she was a doctor in her beloved mexico. Maybe it was the drugs that made his "paranoid!" Is that what she means by "mental disorder?"

How was this illegal invader ever granted a visa to come back into this country after a conviction for human smuggling! That's the question that should be asked and answered! The next question is, why was this illegal invader still in this country and on the streets!