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    Men Carjack 91-Year-Old Vet In Moline

    Men Carjack 91-Year-Old Vet In Moline

    Posted: Oct 08, 2014 10:13 PM CDTUpdated: Oct 08, 2014 10:13 PM CDT



    A car-jacking turns into a police chase which ends with two teens in custody.

    Police say the two Guatemalans, 16 and 17, escaped a facility in Des Plaines around 6 this morning, hijacking a car there and making their way to Moline and Walmart.

    Officers say that's where they ordered a 91-year-old veteran out of his car and took off in it, ramming another car on the way out of the parking lot.

    Iowa officers initiated a short pursuit this afternoon, deploying stop sticks on Interstate 80 near Iowa City, arresting the teens. They say no one was hurt.

    "I mean the 91-year-old veteran was a little shook up but actually he did everything right when he gave them the car," Moline Detective Scott Williams said. "He didn't try to fight 'em.'"

    Police say the surveillance video at Walmart helped them identify the suspects. Now they are awaiting charges from Moline and Des Plaines.

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    EXCLUSIVE: Feds order review of security at all facilities holding illegal immigrant children after two Guatemalan teens escape from Illinois detention center and carjack a 91-year-old Navy veteran


    • Two Guatemalan asylum seekers, age 16 and 17, escaped a detention facility in Des Plaines, Illinois, and committed a carjacking
    • They then drove 165 miles to Moline, Illinois, where they carjacked a 91-year-old Navy veteran
    • They were arrested 80 miles away outside Iowa City, Iowa
    • The teens were housed at a federal program for children who cross the US-Mexico border and claimed asylum
    • More than 60,000 children poured across the border from Central America this summer


    By MICHAEL ZENNIE FOR MAILONLINE

    PUBLISHED: 18:32 EST, 9 October 2014 | UPDATED: 18:58 EST, 9 October 2014

    Two teenage asylum seekers from Guatemala have escaped a detention center in Illinois and carjacked a 91-year-old Navy veteran.

    The incident has prompted the federal government to order a security review at all 139 shelters across the country that house illegal immigrant minors, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.

    The boys, age 16 and 17, were able to walk away unchallenged from Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, Illinois, outside Chicago, on Wednesday morning and carjack two victims before they were arrested more than 225 miles away outside Iowa City, Iowa, according to authorities.

    Police say they targeted an elderly man in Moline, Illinois, who was picking up his prescription at Walmart.
    They threatened him with violence, forced him out of his car and then sped off with his Buick LeSabre.


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    A 225-mile escape plan: Police say the escaped teens, age 16 and 17, were headed for California, where one of them has family

    Police tell MaiIOnline they were headed for California, where one of the teens has family.

    The teens had been transferred to the Illinois facility after crossing the US-Mexico border as unaccompanied minors and requesting asylum in the United States.


    More than 60,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America have poured across the US-Mexico border in recent months and claimed asylum, saying they were fleeing the drug cartel violence in their impoverished home countries.



    At least 60,000 unaccompanied minors flooded across the border this summer and claimed asylum status. More than 2,400 are still housed in federal facilities across the country (stock photo)

    The federal government is spending $868million this year to house and resettle them.

    Currently, there are more than 2,400 children being held at 139 facilities across the country while they await hearings in front of an immigration judge, according to Kenneth J. Wolfe, a spokesman for the US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the programs.

    When federal officials began looking for places to house the tens of thousands of minors, governors and local politicians around the country said no, fearing an uptick in crime over rumors that some of the refugees has ties to Central American gangs.

    Illinois welcomed the minors with open arms, with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel saying he wanted 1,000 more kids brought to his city.

    Federal law says minors cannot be deported without a refugee hearing, but the backlog in immigration courts can be months.
    Nearly all of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors have been released to family members or sponsors in the US.
    Those who couldn't be placed with families remain in facilities contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.

    Mr Wolfe, the HHS spokesman, told MailOnline that the escape has prompted the Office of Refugee Resettlement to take 'immediate steps to ensure that all (refugee resettlement) programs continue to provide a safe and secure environment.'




    The minors who claim asylum in the US are mostly from poor Central American nations that are rife with gang violence



    Huge increase: The federal government's Unaccompanied Minors program has handled more than twice as many cases as last year and ten times as many as 2003 to 2011

    The government program has also ordered all shelters to conduct a 'a security assessment to ensure that they have appropriate physical requirements to meet the behavioral and therapeutic requirements for children placed in their locations, reporting findings to ORR and taking any necessary steps to ensure all policies and requirements are followed.'

    The Maryville Academy, a shelter for mentally-ill and at-risk youth, received asylum seekers who have mental health issues or are a security risk, Mr Wolfe said.

    Police say the teens escaped about 6am and committed a carjacking of a victim nearby about 40 minutes later.

    During the carjacking, the teen threatened the victim with violence, Des Plaines police Commander Randy Akin told MailOnline.

    They drove 165 miles southwest to Moline, Illinois, where they targeted the 91-year-old man at a Walmart about noon.

    'They obviously chose him to take his vehicle. He walked with a cane. They watched him go in and get his medication from the VA,' Moline police Detective Scott Williams said.

    The teens threatened the man and made him give them his keys.

    'He was pretty rattled. He’s 91. But they didn't psychically assault him,' Det Williams said.

    The teens then sped off and hit a parked car on their way out of the parking lot.

    They headed west on Interstate 80 into Iowa. They made it 80 miles, past Iowa City, when they were finally caught.

    Iowa State Patrol Lieutenant Randy Jones told MailOnline he had received reports of both carjackings and figured the teens were likely to head straight west on I-80, so he waited and watched passing cars.

    When he spotted the teens in the LeSabre, he called for a roadblock to be set up ahead of them.

    Troopers used spike strips to shred the teens' tires and then pulled over - they surrendered without incident.

    The teens did not speak, and only indicated that they spoke little English, Lt Jones said.

    They are currently in a jail in Iowa City awaiting extradition back to Illinois to face criminal charges.

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    Unaccompanied Guatemalan Minors Break from Shelter, Rob 91-Year-Old Veteran

    by Kristin Tate 10 Oct 2014, 12:00 PM PDT
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    HOUSTON, Texas -- Two teenagers from Guatemala, who were seeking asylum in the U.S., broke out of an Illinois detention center and carjacked an elderly Navy veteran.

    The veteran, who is 91-years-old, was picking up a prescription at Walmart at the time of the car jacking, according to the Daily Mail. The incident reportedly occurred on Wednesday morning in Moline, Illinois.

    According to reports, the two migrants, ages 16 and 17, forced the veteran out of his car by threatening him with violence. They then drove away in the vet's car, and hit one vehicle as they left the Walmart parking lot; police eventually found the two more than 200 miles outside of Iowa City.

    The two teens were previously apprehended by authorities after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, according to the Daily Mail. Authorities brought the two Guatemalans to Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, Illinois after they had requested asylum in the United States.

    Despite the incident, federal authorities refuse to deport the teens before giving them a refugee hearing. This process can take months, due to how clogged he immigration courts currently are; taxpayers will be subsidizing the two teen's needs for months until their hearings occur.

    The carjacking calls into question how secure immigrant holding facilities currently are. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors have entered the U.S. illegally since the new year. Most of them were transported to facilities around the U.S. where they received taxpayer-subsidized benefits such as clothing, food, education, and English lessons.

    The majority of foreign minors were then placed with foster families across the nation, while they wait for their immigration court hearings. The feds are reportedly spending $868 million this year alone to "resettle" the foreign minors in the United States.

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