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    Suspect in two-state killing spree arrested in Missouri (update)

    Suspect in two-state killing spree arrested in Missouri

    Published March 09, 2016
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    This undated photo shows Pablo Serrano. Serrano is suspected of fatally shooting four people at his neighbor's home in Kansas before killing another man about 170 miles away in a rural Missouri house not far from where his truck was found abandoned. (Kansas City, Kan. Police Department via AP)


    A man suspected of killing five people across Kansas and Missouri was arrested early Wednesday morning after an extensive manhunt, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

    Highway Patrol officials told the Kansas City Star that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was arrested in Montgomery County, Missouri. He was found lying on a hill just north of Interstate-70 and no shots were fired, according to The Star.
    "He looked exhausted," Sgt. James Hedrick said.

    The Star reported the area where Serrano-Vitorino was apprehended is near a McDonald's restaurant and several motels.
    Serrano-Vitorino is accused of murdering four men late Monday night at his neighbor’s home in Kansas City, Kan. He was also wanted in connection with the shooting death of 49-year-old Randy Nordman in Montgomery County.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement late Tuesday that Serrano-Vitorino was a Mexican national who was in the U.S. illegally. According to authorities, he was held at the Overland Park, Kan. Municipal Court on Sept. 14. The fingerprinting generated an ICE detainer, but the agency was “erroneously issued…to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, instead of the Overland Park Municipal Court.”

    The Department of Homeland Security said that Serrano-Vitorino was released from custody without ICE being notified, though they did not elaborate on why. ICE also confirmed that Serrano-Vitorino had been deported back to Mexico in 2004, but had since returned illegally.

    It was not clear when he returned to the U.S.

    The widespread manhunt for him, which started Monday, included helicopters, police dogs and at least one SWAT team. One of the four men managed to call police before he died, but it's unclear how the men knew each other or what may have prompted the shooting, Kansas City police officer Thomas Tomasic said.

    A truck Serrano-Vitorino was believed to be driving was found about 7 a.m. Tuesday morning alongside Interstate-70 in central Missouri.

    About 25 minutes later, sheriff's deputies responded to a shooting about 5 miles away at a Montgomery County home and found the body of 49-year-old Nordman, according to the patrol.

    Highway Patrol Lt. Paul Reinsch said a witness who called 911 reported seeing a man running from Nordman's property, launching a manhunt of that area.

    Reinsch said investigators weren't aware of any connection between Serrano-Vitorino and Nordman, whose home is near his family's campground and a racetrack for remote-controlled cars.

    Police have not released the names of the four victims, but relatives identified three of them to the Kansas City Star as Mike Capps and brothers Clint and Austin Harter.

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    Four shot to death in KCK; fifth killing in mid-Missouri may be linked


    A man who knew the victims of a quadruple homicide in Kansas City, Kan., helps clean blood from the scene Tuesday morning. The killings happened late Monday night. David Eulitt

    Update at 2 a.m. Wednesday: The Missouri Highway Patrol says that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, who is suspected of gunning down five people, four of them in Kansas City, Kan., was arrested about 12:18 a.m. Wednesday in Montgomery County, Mo.

    Serrano-Vitorino was found lying in mud on a hill just north of Interstate 70 outside the search perimeter. He was armed with a rifle, but no shots were fired.


    “He looked exhausted,” said Sgt. James Hedrick of the Missouri Highway Patrol.

    There is a culvert that runs underneath the interstate, but it was not immediately clear if that was how Serrano-Vitorino got across.

    The area where he was apprehended is near a McDonald’s restaurant and several motels near the intersection of I-70 and Missouri 19 in New Florence.

    Serrano-Vitorino, a Mexican national who lived in KCK, is accused of fatally shooting four men late Monday night at his neighbor's home. He also was wanted in connection with the shooting death of 49-year-old Randy Nordman in Montgomery County.

    Serrano-Vitorino is expected to appear later this morning in Montgomery County court.

    A warm Monday night. A hail of AK-47 bullets. Four men killed, two of them brothers.

    The suspect, identified by authorities as 40-year-old Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, drives past midnight, 170 miles east, away from Kansas City, Kan., into Missouri’s Montgomery County. A fifth man is killed. Police helicopters take to the skies. Dogs are set loose.

    A manhunt is on.

    Left grieving Tuesday in a tightly knit Kansas City, Kan., neighborhood were friends and relatives who, stunned and in tears, said they were as much in the dark as anyone over the question of why. What possible provocation could have prompted the killing of men described by all here as decent?

    “I have no idea. I’m flabbergasted. The neighborhood is mystified,” said one friend agonized over the deaths of Michael Capps, 41; brothers Austin Harter, 29, and Clint Harter, 27; and a fourth victim whose name has not been confirmed and who was less known to those in the block near 36th and Oliver.

    “This was a random act,” said Marlena Kyle, an aunt to the two brothers. “They were innocents.”

    Serrano-Vitorino — who was charged later Tuesday with four counts of first-degree murder — rented a small house with his wife and two elementary-school-age children next door to the home where the four men were killed at 3036 S. 36th St.

    Kansas City, Kan., police released a description of Serrano-Vitorino’s pickup truck after the killings. Police saw the abandoned truck later Tuesday morning on Interstate 70 near New Florence, Mo., about midway between Columbia and St. Louis. Forty-nine-year-old Randy J. Nordman, who lived on a road that parallels I-70 at New Florence, was shot to death soon after. Serrano-Vitorino is being sought in connection with the killing.

    Little information was available about Serrano-Vitorino on Tuesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did say that he had been deported in 2004 as an illegal immigrant from Mexico. He was detained as recently as September after an arrest on a local charge, but was released on Sept. 14.

    When last seen around 7 a.m. Tuesday in New Florence, Serrano-Vitorino was wearing a red and black flannel jacket, a blue hooded sweatshirt and possibly blue denim jeans. Possibly armed with an AK-47, he is considered dangerous. Persons should use extreme caution and immediately call 911 if he is encountered, said Capt. John Hotz, spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

    As many as 100 law enforcement officers spent Tuesday searching the rural area. Two helicopters hovered over the area. K-9 squads and two tactical teams from the Highway Patrol scoured the countryside. The search continued into the night.

    In Kansas City, Kan., devastated friends and family, who scheduled a candlelight vigil on Tuesday night, simply searched in vain for answers.

    The killings occurred about 11 p.m. Monday in the home of Mike Capps, known better as “Chainsaw” because of his collection of dozens of the machines.

    If there had been any argument or grudge brewing between Capps and Serrano-Vitorino, neighbors said, they had no clue of it.

    Nor could they think of anything between the Harter brothers and Serrano-Vitorino. In fact, neighbors said they thought that Serrano-Vitorino had only rented the house for about a year. In that time, he came and went, often driving his truck with a trailer attached. Neighbors said they thought he did solo landscaping or yard work.

    They more often saw his wife when she walked the couple’s two children, a boy about 8 and a girl age 5 or 6, to the end of the block to catch the school bus. She would meet the children at the end of the day at the same corner.
    “She just stood at the corner, just be there standing and waiting,” said neighbor Stephanie Crable, a resident for 31 years.

    Those in the area who had dealings with Serrano-Vitorino said that he paid his rent on time and always politely. He was a good tenant. If he stuck out in any way, neighbors said, it was in how he more often than not would return from work and just stay in his home.

    He didn’t behave oddly or threateningly. They knew of no reasons why a generally quiet neighbor allegedly grabbed an assault-style rifle and stormed into the Capps home.

    A woman living close by Capps’ home said that she heard nothing unusual Monday night to give her concerns. She went to bed about 10 p.m., she said. She woke, shortly after 11 p.m., when one of her dogs began barking.
    “I heard screaming,” she said. She described it as panicked, coming from Capps’ house.

    “I didn’t hear gunshots,” she said.

    By the time she gathered herself and made it to the front door, she said, ambulances and police were already on the scene. She saw Austin Harter, whom she knew, bleeding on the front porch of the small frame house. After police left the scene Tuesday morning, she was among the friends and relatives washing blood off the porch.

    Relatives and friends remembered Capps and the Harter brothers as good men linked by their love of cars.
    Capps was described as a father who loved his two young sons more than his own life.

    “They were his whole world,” said Capps’ sister, Megan Capps, 30. “He helped anyone who needed it. He had a heart of gold.”

    A man who lived nearby but declined to give his name said of Capps, “As a neighbor, he would give you the shirt off his back .… He always talked about his kids.”

    Capps also had worked at an auto body repair shop for seven or eight years.

    “He was the hardest-working guy, the most thoughtful guy,” owner Ron Butler said.

    He said Capps had a tough childhood and was dedicated to making sure his sons had a better life.

    One woman said she had known him since he was 9 and he called her “mom,” although they were not biologically related. She was too distraught Tuesday morning to comment further.

    A friend, Cristi Beck, said she had known Capps for about 10 years. He used to bring her mother Coca-Cola Classic.
    “I think he was a great man,” Beck said. “He was a man with a big heart. I love him and will miss him very much.”
    Kelly Capps was once married to Capps and is the mother of his two sons, 7 and 3. She said they still had a good relationship.

    “He was a great guy who you wanted to have on your side,” she said.

    When a friend wearing pajamas came to her house late Monday night, she said she knew something was very wrong. “It’s just surreal. I’m just in shock.”

    She had to tell her sons that that their father was gone.

    The older boy stared straight ahead as tears ran down his cheeks. She is not sure her youngest son understands what happened.

    “I told him that daddy went to sleep and won’t wake up anymore,” she said.

    His boys adored him, she said. “He was just a big kid himself.”

    The Capps family and the Harter families know each other well. Mike Capps’ mother lives in Kansas City, Kan., directly across the street from the mother of the Austin and Clint Harter.

    Clint Harter was married. His wife is eight months pregnant. They have a 2-year-old child. They live less than two miles from where Harter was killed.

    Neighbors there described Clint Harter and his wife as amazing.

    Audrey Ragan’s mother, who suffers dementia, lives across the street from the Harter home. Ragan cares for her mother. Clint and his wife always waved happily, Ragan said. The couple on occasions would care for Ragan’s mother and even baked her a birthday cake soon after they moved into the neighborhood.

    “I was dumbfounded,” Ragan said. “I thought, ‘We don’t even know these people. look what they’re doing.’ ”
    Kelly Capps said of Clint Harter: “He was the kind of guy who took care of his family. He watched out for his mom and brothers.”

    A portrait of Austin Harter was less clear.

    Said one neighbor, “Austin was a big tub of love.”

    On Tuesday, both the Harter and Capps families spoke of their inability to pay for their loved ones’ funerals. Part of the reason for the candlelight vigil was to raise awareness of their efforts.

    Anyone with information about the killings is asked to call the Tips Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (474-8477).
    The four Kansas deaths bring the metropolitan area’s homicide total for 2016 to 33.

    Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...#storylink=cpy




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    Missouri police manhunt captures murder suspect freed after immigration snafu

    BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN, DAN GOOD
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
    Updated: Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 5:07 AM



    A 40-year-old man suspected of killing five people in Kansas and Missouri after being released during an immigration slip up last year has been arrested after an intense manhunt.

    Police captured Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino just after midnight on Wednesday in east-central Missouri near the interstate, Missouri Highway Patrol told the Daily News.

    The arrest comes after a day-long search for him in the aftermath of four men's shooting deaths at his neighbor's home in Kansas City, Kan., late Monday.

    Serrano-Vitorino's truck was found 7:02 a.m. Tuesday along Interstate 70 in central Missouri, about 175 miles away from the crime scene— near the New Florence home where a fifth person, 49-year-old Randy Nordman, was found dead.

    A witness reported seeing a man running from the property and authorities said the suspect was considered armed and dangerous — possibly packing an AK-47.

    Several schools were put on lockdown during the search, which included two helicopters and dozens of officers.
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    Murder suspect Pablo Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was arrested early Wednesday after a manhunt.


    MHP said that the suspect was carrying a rifle when he was found lying face down in a ditch as searchers worked their way toward the northern part of a perimeter set up around where his truck was found.
    The suspect, who surrendered immediately, was roughly four miles away from that location.
    The final moments of Tuesday's manhunt were not Serrano-Vitorino’s first encounters with law enforcement or immigration officials.

    An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman told KMBC that the suspect had been deported 12 years ago, but somehow ended up back in the country illegally and was fingerprinted last September in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park for driving without a license.

    ICE said that it mistakenly sent a retainer for Serrano-Vitorino to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, where the suspect was not in custody.

    FOX4KC.COM
    The search for Serrano-Vitorino included two helicopters and dozens of officers around the area where his truck was found in central Missouri.


    It added that it "regrets the error" that allowed him to walk free rather than sending him into the immigration legal system and likely back to his native Mexico.

    Three of the Kansas City victims were identified by the Kansas City Star as Michael "Chainsaw" Capps and two brothers, Clint and Austin Harter.

    Missouri Highway Patrol said it was handling the investigation into the death of Nordman, who is not thought at this point to have had any relationship to Serrano-Vitorino.

    Serrano-Vitorino is scheduled to appear in court in Montgomery County Wednesday morning.

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    Previously deported, caught driving without a license and turned loose just as the Obama administration has dictated that he should be. Now, 5 people are dead and the blame is squarely on DHS and ICE and their policies of catch and release. JMO
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    Congress Demands Details on Illegal Immigrant Charged in Killing Spree



    by CAROLINE MAY
    15 Mar 2016

    The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are pressing the Obama administration on how a previously deported illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record — now charged with murdering five people — was able to evade deportation for years.

    Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, an illegal immigrant from Mexico with numerous criminal convictions, was charged last week with the murder of five people in Kansas City, Kansas and Montgomery County, Missouri.

    ”On at least two occasions, ICE was notified of Serrano-Vitorino’s arrests, but for various reasons, did not take custody of him,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA). “It appears that there was a systemic failure to effectively communicate between ICE and local law enforcement entities, allowing Serrano-Vitorino to evade removal by taking advantage of at least one sanctuary jurisdiction and weak immigration enforcement policies.”

    The lawmakers noted that, according to ICE, Serrano-Vitorino initially entered the U.S. illegally in 1993 but was deported following a number of crimes in April, 2004. Following his removal, he re-entered the country illegally that same month but was returned to Mexico by Border Patrol. He returned illegally again in 2007.

    While in the U.S. Serrano-Vitorino has been arrested, charged, and convicted of with a number of violent crimes. As the chairmen detailed in their letter, “Serrano-Vitorino has been arrested and charged with numerous crimes, including: communicating a threat with intent to terrorize; battery of a spouse; several driving without a license offenses; a subsequent felony conviction for communicating a threat with intent to terrorize, reportedly based on his threat to kill his wife with a rifle, for which he was sentenced to incarceration for two years; two arrests for driving under the influence, which resulted in one conviction; and a conviction for domestic battery.”

    Goodlatte and Grassley say they want more details on his immigration history and contact with law enforcement to learn more about how Serrano-Vitorino was able to remain in the U.S. despite his illegal status and criminal record.

    “As a result, five people in Missouri and Kansas were murdered, allegedly by Serrano-Vitorino, an alien who had illegally entered the United States on multiple occasions and consistently demonstrated his utter disregard for our laws,” they wrote.

    The chairmen’s most recent missive follows a long line of letters to the Obama administration expressing outrage and demanding answers for how illegal immigrants with criminal records have slipped through the cracks and gone on to commit more, often violent crimes.

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    How a Suspected Murderer and Criminally Convicted Illegal Immigrant Avoided Deportati

    How a Suspected Murderer and Criminally Convicted Illegal Immigrant Avoided Deportation

    Josh Siegel /March 16, 2016


    Relatives of victims in a quadruple homicide in Kansas last week hose off blood from their porch as investigators searched for the shooting suspect, Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino, a once-deported man from Mexico who was living in the U.S. illegally. (Photo: David Eulitt/TNS/Newscom)

    Before Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino became the suspect in a murder spree across two states, the man, a once deported Mexican living in the United States illegally, was convicted of multiple crimes, across different agencies, but still free.

    Serrano-Vitorino’s case involved a series of errors that kept him from being detained by federal immigration authorities, and from facing another deportation last year when he should have been removed from the country.

    His case, experts say, showcases the precise communication required between local law enforcement agencies, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in order to keep tabs on criminally convicted immigrants living in the country illegally—and how the slightest misstep could lead to tragedy.

    “It should not be only ICE’s responsibility to make sure criminally-convicted aliens get on the path to deportation,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It is too big of a job. It sounds like there was an earlier opportunity for this guy to be in custody, and a combination of local agencies not stepping up to report him, and ICE missing the opportunity they had to deport him, gave this man the opportunity to commit these horrific crimes.”

    Last week, Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder for a shooting in Kansas City, Kan. Serrano-Vitorino was also charged with murder in the death of a fifth man in a separate shooting across the Kansas border in Missouri. After a manhunt, Serrano-Vitorino was arrested, and he is being held at Montgomery County Jail in Missouri.

    In a statement to the media, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged that it should have detained Serrano-Vitorino before these incidents occurred.

    Series of Errors

    In September 2015, Serrano-Vitorino went to court in Overland Park, Kan., to pay a fine for driving without a license, for which he was charged with a misdemeanor and pleaded guilty, according to Officer Richard Breshears of the Overland Park Police Department.

    He was fingerprinted at the court, and his criminal record was sufficient for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to submit a detainer requesting Serrano-Vitorino to be held.

    But the federal immigration agency accidentally issued the detainer to Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, instead of the court, allowing Serrano-Vitorino to be released.

    “Talking with our court, they had never received a detainer before he showed up in court or after,” Breshears told The Daily Signal. “In addition, our office was never aware of his status in this country because the courts never received a detainer.”

    Breshears speculated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement may have mistakenly sent the detainer to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office since it has a jail where Serrano-Vitorino would presumably be in custody.


    Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino (Photo: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)

    The police department and the court, which are both in Johnson County but are under the jurisdiction of the City of Overland Park, do not have a jail.

    An official with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, meanwhile, said they have no record of receiving a detainer for Serrano-Vitorino.

    “We don’t know if someone sent a detainer because he wasn’t in our custody,” Deputy Claire Young told The Daily Signal. “He was never, ever in our custody so we don’t have documents or paperwork for him to even look back on.”

    Long Criminal History

    This was not the first time Serrano-Vitorino had come into contact with law enforcement in the U.S.

    He first entered the country illegally in 1993, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told The Daily Signal. The official said Serrano-Vitorino was ordered deported in 2002.

    The next year, the official said, Serrano-Vitorino was convicted in California of making a terrorist threat, a felony, and sentenced to two years in prison. He was deported in April 2004.

    He illegally came to the U.S. again sometime afterward on an unknown date.

    From there, in November 2014, Serrano-Vitorino emerged on law enforcement’s radar when he was convicted of a misdemeanor for driving under the influence in Coffey County, Kan.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it did not know that Serrano-Vitorino was in the country at the time and that the Coffey County Sheriff’s Office did not notify the federal agency that it had him in custody.

    The Coffey Sheriff’s Office declined to comment for this story.

    While some law enforcement agencies don’t always notify federal authorities of illegal immigrant cases that aren’t felonies, the Department of Homeland Security’s new rules governing detention and removal of illegal immigrants state that those convicted of a “significant misdemeanor,” which the agency says includes driving under the influence, should be a priority for deportation.

    In November 2014, President Barack Obama, as part of his executive actions on immigration, issued a directive to end a controversial program called Secure Communities that required local law enforcement to hold illegal immigrants they arrested for deportation.

    The program, created in 2008 under President George W. Bush and expanded by Obama, was criticized for punishing immigrants arrested of less serious crimes, like minor traffic violations.

    Under the new policy, called the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP), federal immigration officials are directed to issue detainers for those in country illegally who have been convicted of serious offenses or those who pose a risk to national security.

    In addition, the new program mandates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement no longer ask law enforcement agencies to hold somebody in custody to be picked up for deportation beyond the period when they would normally be released.

    Instead, local authorities are supposed to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement only when they plan to release someone federal officials have requested information on.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement, however, can still issue a detainer if they believe they have probable cause to deport an illegal immigrant who has been arrested, even if they haven’t been convicted.

    Serrano-Vitorino, meanwhile, was arrested again last June on a domestic battery charge in Wyandotte County in Kansas.

    According to an official from the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office, per its internal procedure dealing with anybody it arrests who is born outside the U.S., the agency notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement that it had Serrano-Vitorino in custody.

    Lieutenant Kelli Bailiff of the sheriff’s office said the agency gives federal immigration authorities four hours to respond about whether they want more information on the person in custody.

    Because Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond in that time frame, Serrano-Vitorino was released, Bailiff said. The official from Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Daily Signal that they could not verify Serrano-Vitorino’s identity because he was released from custody before the federal agency could take action. The New York Times reported that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement never received Serrano-Vitorino’s fingerprints.

    The Priority Enforcement Program, like Secure Communities before it, requires law enforcement agencies to submit fingerprints to the FBI for criminal background checks. That information is then sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement so federal officials can determine if the person is a priority for removal.

    Bailiff said her agency followed that directive, as it always does for anybody it books.

    She speculated that maybe Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t get the results of the FBI check until after the four hour response window expired—and Serrano-Vitorino was already released.

    Bailiff said Wyandotte County would have provided fingerprints directly to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement if they had asked for it.

    “Normally, what happens is, if they are interested in a person, they send a query and maybe call us, or they may send someone to interview that person or ask for more information like fingerprints,” Bailiff said. “We wait for direction from them, and they did not respond at all.”

    Bailiff said that the situation may have been made more confusing because Serrano-Vitorino did not provide his full name to Wyandotte County. He identified himself as Pablo Serrano, she said.

    “The information is only as good as what we are provided from the person we are booking,” Bailiff said. “If the person lies to us, we send ICE the info the person gave us.”

    Who’s to Blame?

    No matter who’s to blame, Republicans in Congress and critics of federal immigration policy are looking for answers on Serrano-Vitorino’s case.

    On Monday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chairs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for “a more thorough understanding of how this violent offender evaded immigration authorities and removal from the United States.”


    Sen. Chuck Grassley (pictured), R-Iowa, along with Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson seeking answers on how a criminally convicted illegal immigrant avoided deportation. (Photo: Ron Sachs/ZUMA Press/Newscom)

    Specifically, they ask if Serrano-Vitorino should have been a priority for removal under the Obama administration’s new Priority Enforcement Program.

    “I think ultimately the responsibility in this case is with ICE because they sent the [September 2015] detainer to the wrong place, but I think this is a lesson for all local law enforcement agencies that they need to be on the ball because they are the ones who end up picking up the pieces when more crimes are committed,” said Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies.

    Bailiff of the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office defended her agency’s relationship with federal immigration authorities.

    “We have a good relationship with ICE, and it’s not unusual for them to call us and ask for more information or send someone right away,” Bailiff said. “They do respond many times to our queries.”

    Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, believes the mistakes around Serrano-Vitorino’s case do not reflect a problem with policy, but rather were a function of a bureaucratic failure.

    “It’s really a lot of administrative snafus combined,” Nowrasteh told The Daily Signal. “It’s not like there’s a policy to release these people on the local level, and clearly not at the federal level. It just sounds like a complex bureaucratic screw-up made possible by an overly complicated system.”

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    Trial ordered for man accused of New Florence, Mo., killing – and four more in Kansas

    By Tim O’Neil St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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    MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. • The rifle seized by state troopers from Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino at the end of a 17-hour manhunt was linked by ballistics to the death of a stranger who lived nearby, investigators testified in a hearing Thursday.

    Associate Circuit Judge Kelly C. Broniec ordered that Serrano-Vitorino — who allegedly killed Randy J. Nordman of New Florence on March 8 while on the run after a quadruple murder in Kansas — must stand trial here for first-degree murder, armed criminal action and burglary.

    The preliminary hearing replaces the grand jury process commonly used in urban areas as a path to trial. The next hearing will be June 1.

    Serrano-Vitorino, 40, also faces first-degree murder charges in Kansas City, Kan., where he lived and is accused of fatally shooting four men in a neighbor’s home. A Mexican citizen, he returned to the U.S. illegally some time after being deported from California in 2004.

    Chained and in an orange jumpsuit, the defendant did not speak during the two-hour hearing. An interpreter translated the proceedings into Spanish for him.

    Nordman’s stepdaughter, Tasha Lawson, 26, said later she attended “because I wanted to see the guy who took my dad from us and caused us so much pain. It actually was hard to look at him. I cried when he came in the room.”

    Julie Nordman, who heard the shot that killed her husband, did not attend.

    Pedro Garcia, one of eight people who made the trip in support of the Kansas victims, said he hopes for a death sentence. Authorities have not said if they will seek one.

    Six officials laid out details of what happened after a 100-officer dragnet focused on Interstate 70 and Missouri Highway 19 at New Florence. A pickup linked to the Kansas killing the night before was found abandoned four miles away on the shoulder.

    They said Nordman, 49, was shot once in the chest, severing his aorta, in a struggle in his garage about 7:30 a.m.

    Only 800 feet away, in midnight rain about 17 hours later, two Missouri troopers found the suspect hiding in a ditch with the rifle propped against his side. He did not resist.

    “He just appeared exhausted and soaking wet,” Sgt. Brooks McGinnis testified.
    Patrol Sgt. Jason Clark said lab tests linked the rifle to a bullet fragment in Nordman’s body and an empty casing in his garage. Clark also said DNA from blood on a tablecloth in Nordman’s kitchen was almost certainly Serrano-Vitorino’s.

    New Florence is 75 miles west of St. Louis and five miles south the courthouse.

    Randy Nordman was a machinist in Wentzville and an enthusiast of radio-controlled model race cars.

    Serrano-Vitorino has been held in the Montgomery County Jail, where Sheriff Robert Davis said he had tried to commit suicide by cutting himself with a razor one day after his arrest.

    Serrano-Vitorino had several run-ins with law enforcement that never led to an arrest on the immigration violation. In one case, he walked out of a Kansas court just before a federal “detainer” document arrived.

    Members of the Missouri Senate cited Serrano-Vitorino in approving a bill that would make illegal re-entry a state violation as well as a federal one. As of Thursday, the bill was before the House with one day left of the legislative session.

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    Previously Deported Illegal Alien to Stand Trial for Murder



    by BOB PRICE
    15 May 2016

    An illegal alien who had been previously deported multiple times and then was let out of jail because of a government processing error is now set to stand trial for murder. The Mexican national allegedly killed five people after immigration officials sent a detainer to the wrong jail.

    A preliminary hearing for Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was held this week in Missouri. Montgomery County Associate Circuit Judge Kelly Broniec set an arraignment date for June 1, the Associated Press reported.

    Breitbart News’ Katie McHugh reported in March that Serrano-Vitorino allegedly killed four people in Kansas City, Kansas. The next day, he traveled to Missouri where he allegedly killed a fifth person.

    In September 2015, Serrano-Vitorino was being held by the Overland Park, Kansas, Municipal Court. McHugh reported that the man’s fingerprints triggered an immigration detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Instead of sending the ICE detainer to the municipal court, officials delivered the notice to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. The illegal alien who had been previously deported multiple times for his criminal behavior was released and six months later, 5 Americans would be dead.

    Another opportunity to remove the criminal illegal alien was again missed by ICE officials when Serrano-Vitorino was arrested in Kansas on domestic battery charges. The Sheriff’s office requested information about the man from ICE. The agency responsible for removing violent criminal aliens did not respond before the man was released from the county’s jail, the Daily Mail reported.

    An outraged Congress demanded answers. The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees contacted the Obama Administration to find out what went wrong, Breitbart News Caroline May reported in March.

    May wrote, ”On at least two occasions, ICE was notified of Serrano-Vitorino’s arrests, but for various reasons, did not take custody of him,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA). “It appears that there was a systemic failure to effectively communicate between ICE and local law enforcement entities, allowing Serrano-Vitorino to evade removal by taking advantage of at least one sanctuary jurisdiction and weak immigration enforcement policies.”

    The letter from Congress to the Obama Administration read, “Serrano-Vitorino has been arrested and charged with numerous crimes, including: communicating a threat with intent to terrorize; battery of a spouse; several driving without a license offenses; a subsequent felony conviction for communicating a threat with intent to terrorize, reportedly based on his threat to kill his wife with a rifle, for which he was sentenced to incarceration for two years; two arrests for driving under the influence, which resulted in one conviction; and a conviction for domestic battery.”

    Serrano-Vitorino illegally entered the U.S. in 1993, May reported. He was deported for criminal convictions in April 2004. That same month, he was captured re-entering the U.S. and returned to Mexico. Undeterred, the criminal illegal alien returned again in 2007.

    Prosecutors in Missouri are seeking the death penalty in the murder case.

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    State files paperwork to seek death penalty against murder suspect

    POSTED: 04:35 PM CDT May 20, 2016
    UPDATED: 06:18 PM CDT May 20, 2016

    MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. -
    Documentation necessary for the State of Missouri to seek the death penalty against murder subject Pablo Serrano-Vitorino has been filed.

    Serrano-Vitorino is charged with murder, armed criminal action, and burglary in relation to the death of Randy Nordman in March 2016. According to investigators, Serrano-Vitorino killed Nordman while on the run from police. At the time, Serrano-Vitorino was wanted for the deaths of four people in Kansas City, Kansas.

    In court documents released Friday, the state claims as aggravating circumstances to Nordman's murder the deaths of the four people in Kansas. The state also alleges Serrano-Vitorino's killing of Nordman showed "a callous disregard for the sanctity of all human life."

    The state further points to Serrano-Vitorino's criminal past and status as an illegal immigrant. After his arrest in March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, filed a detainer against Serrano-Vitorino - an illegal immigrant - which means he will be deported. This will happen whether he is acquitted of the murder charges he now faces or if he’s convicted and completes his sentence.

    Serrano-Vitorino is scheduled to be arraigned in Montgomery County on June 1.

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    Undocumented immigrant's high profile murder case moved to St. Louis City

    Posted: Sep 20, 2016 10:25 AM PDT
    Updated: Sep 20, 2016 2:23 PM PDT
    By Cory Stark, Anchor / Reporter



    Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino had been previously deported from the U.S. in April 2004. ICE says he illegally re-entered the country on an unknown date. (KCK Police Department)

    ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- A Montgomery County, Missouri judge has ruled to transfer the high profile murder case for undocumented immigrant Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino to the St. Louis City Circuit Court.

    Officials with the Missouri Attorney General's Office said they will be assisting Montgomery County Prosecutor Nathan Carroz with the death penalty case in St. Louis City Circuit Courts. It was Serrano-Vitorino's attorney who requested the change in venue.

    Serrano-Vitorino pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges in Montgomery County. He is accused of killing 49-year-old Randy Nordman at Nordman's home in New Florence on March 8, 2016.

    Serrano-Vitorino is also charged with murdering four other people in Wyandotte County, Kansas. The killing-spree received national attention.

    According to court documents, Serrano-Vitorino was in the United States illegally after having previously been deported through formal proceedings in California in 2004.

    There are currently no court hearing dates scheduled in the first-degree murder case.

    http://www.kmov.com/story/33139765/i...-st-louis-city
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