Thread: Mexican fugitive found in Oxnard

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Mexican fugitive found in Oxnard
Man spots alleged killer of his father

By John Scheibe, jscheibe@VenturaCountyStar.com
September 29, 2006

Evarado Duron Ramirez could hardly believe his eyes when he walked into an Oxnard restaurant Sunday.

Sitting there was Rene Perez Carrion, the man suspected of shooting Ramirez's father to death in Mexico in early 2002.

Ramirez, 27, immediately notified Oxnard police that Carrion was in the restaurant. Police detained Carrion, 31, and learned that Mexican authorities had issued an arrest warrant for him in connection with the shooting death of Ramirez's father, Everado Ramirez Pomposo.

Carrion was arrested and taken to County Jail. He was later handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after it was determined he was in the United States illegally, said David Wales, ICE's resident agent in charge in Camarillo.

Pomposo worked as a police commander in the small Mexican town of Alvaro Obregon, in the state of Puebla.

Ramirez said his father had been called to a party in the town after the host complained that some of the partygoers were drunk and rowdy.

"He was trying to calm some of the people at the party down when this guy pulled a out a gun and shot him several times, killing him," Ramirez said by telephone Wednesday from Los Angeles, where he has lived for eight years and works in construction.

Ramirez said he was surprised to find Carrion at the La Cocina Rica on West Hueneme Road, even though he'd gotten reports from friends over the years that Carrion was in town.

"I didn't think it would be this easy to find him," Ramirez said, even though "a lot of the people who live in Alvaro Obregon eventually move to Oxnard." Ramirez himself spent time in the small Mexican town before moving to the United States.

Ramirez said some of his hometown friends would telephone him in Los Angeles, telling him they'd either seen Carrion in the area or heard that he was there.

Ramirez said he immediately recognized Carrion, "though he didn't know who I was."

He said Carrion's brother is married to his sister.

"At times I feel sorry for him, though I'm also proud of what I've done," he said.

ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said agents are apprehending an increasing number of foreign nationals in this country who are wanted by authorities in other countries.

For example, ICE agents arrested Gonzalo Vasquez Ortiz, 29, in Oxnard just last month. Ortiz was wanted in Mexico for the December 2003 slaying of Samuel Diaz Aguilar. Aguilar was gunned down outside a nightclub in Oaxaca.

Vasquez's arrest came less than a week after ICE agents arrested another Mexican national in Palmdale wanted in connection with the killing of a man in a dispute over a herd of goats in the state of Jalisco.

And in late August, ICE agents repatriated a Mexican police officer wanted in connection with a drug massacre in Sinaloa. Mexican authorities allege former Sinaloa state police officer Jose Ines Gallardo-Rodriguez along with three other police officers served as enforcers for Erikson Antonio Zavala Zamora, the leader of a Sinaloan-based drug cartel.

Gallardo-Rodriguez and others allegedly kidnapped, tortured and used an arsenal of weapons, including AK-47s, to kill those suspected of being informants for Mexican federal agents.

"Our message to foreign fugitives is, ‘You may try to run, but you cannot hide,' " said Gloria Kee, a field office director for ICE detention and removal operations in Los Angeles, in a press release. "We're going to do everything in our power to keep fleeing criminals from using our communities as a refuge."

Kice said she suspects more foreign fugitives are coming to this country because they can easily blend in.

"We live in a very diverse community and it's not hard to blend in," she said.

Evarado Duron Ramirez could hardly believe his eyes when he walked into an Oxnard restaurant Sunday.

Sitting there was Rene Perez Carrion, the man suspected of shooting Ramirez's father to death in Mexico in early 2002.

Hmmm, is it really just a small world or does the above say something for the number of illegal immigrants we have roaming around in our communities?

or does the above say something for the number of illegal immigrants we have roaming around in our communities?

Bingo!

Carrion was arrested and taken to County Jail. He was later handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after it was determined he was in the United States illegally, said David Wales, ICE's resident agent in charge in Camarillo.

I wonder if ICE has released him yet?