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Latino Group Questions The Investigation of Illegal Alien Gang Rape
Posted on Monday, October 25 @ 23:59:38 EDT
Topic: Illegal Immigration News in the US
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 ALIPAC NOTE: A second gang rape by illegal aliens case was buried in the bottom of this article.
Latino group questions investigation of gang rape By Tucker Mitchell Tuesday, October 26, 2004 The Huntersville Herald The Huntersville Police Department is under fire from a Hispanic activist following last week's arrest of six Hispanic men accused of brutally raping a woman for more than five hours in a Huntersville mobile home park on Oct. 10.
The activist, Maudia Melendez of the Latino Connection, says she's concerned about the thoroughness of HPD's investigation, given the reputation of the accused in the Huntersville and Cornelius communities. "The community that knows the detainees have all said the same thing to me, namely how is that six men, who are just regular people, good workers, how is that they can suddenly become animals and commit so terrible a crime?" Melendez says. "I am an advocate for Latinos but I am also a supporter of law and order. What we are really looking for here is the truth. I'm not sure we have that just yet." Among other possibilities, Melendez and others wonder in what way, if any, the victim may have contributed to the events of the early morning hours of Oct. 10. Melendez was scheduled to meet with HPD officials Wednesday and a meeting for those concerned about the matter was scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Showmars shopping center on Highway 21 in Huntersville. A similar meeting was held there last weekend. HPD officials say they have looked at that possibility that the the victim was in some way responsible, including the theory that she was a prostitute, but have not found any evidence that would back that up. The alleged victim, who lives in Huntersville, has no prior record as far Huntersville officers can tell, and statements taken from the alleged perpetrators the morning after the incident do not raise the question. "You'd think that might be something that you'd mention to the police, if that were the case," says Lt. Ken Richardson, head of HPD's criminal investigations unit. In addition, says Richardson, there was considerable evidence of forcible sex. Richardson declined to detail the victim's exact medical condition because of confidentiality concerns, but other sources say the bruising on the victim was considerable and she was so badly injured that she could not walk for several days afterwards. Richardson also says that the acts in question would be a serious crime even if the woman were a prostitute. "You might do some things for money," Richardson says. "You wouldn't do this." According to HPD accounts, the woman's ordeal began late on the night of Oct. 9 when she accompanied one of the suspects back to the mobile home at 11714 Cimarron Road. Cimarron is in the Huntington Green subdivision off McCoy Road. Not long after entering the mobile home, which was rented by two of the suspects, the woman went to use the bathroom. When she came out, the man in whose company she entered the unit was no longer around, but several other men were. The men soon began raping her. They used physical force to prevent her from leaving the room she was in, which added kidnapping to the charges. All of the men, including the original escort, allegedly participated in the rape. The woman, described by police as 37-year-old white female, was finally allowed to leave, sometime around 6 a.m. Sunday morning. She returned to her home where her 13-year-old daughter noted her condition and called the authorities. The woman was rushed to Lake Norman Regional Medical Center where she was treated, and, with the help of a Huntersville officer who is specially trained in evidence-gathering procedures, provided authorities with evidence collected through a rape kit. In the meantime, Huntersville police officers were dispatched to the rented residence on Cimmaron where four of the men later charged were still on hand. Uniformed patrolmen held the men there while detectives arrived to gather evidence inside the trailer. While this was going on, three more men returned to the house. The police questioned the suspects with the help of interpreters, and several of the suspects offered fairly detailed statements. Believing the men might not be legal U.S. residents, HPD contacted the Immigration and Naturaliziation Service (INS) which sent agents to the scene and determined that in fact, all seven were in the country illegally. All seven were put under INS detainers and jailed in Charlotte. Several days later, the INS detainers were lifted against six of the seven men so that state charges could be filed. The seventh, Pedro Flores, formerly of Cornelius, has already been deported. Police say it's unclear if Flores was at the scene during the rape, but statements from the other men suggest he did not take part in the alleged crime. The six arrested for rape and kidnapping include Blas Ceron Santiago, Rafael Ceron Santiago, Eladio Castillio Castillio, Alfredo Munoz Perez, Antonio Islas Lucio and Alejandro Morales Suarez. All six are currently in the Mecklenburg County Jail under $300,000 bond each. In addition, HPD is still seeking a seventh man. Detective Andrew Dempski, the lead investigator on the case for HPD, says police are interested in talking to this man whom they believe was at the scene for at least part of the night in question. They're not calling the missing man a suspect at this time. Dempski says that originally, the man was believed to be in Concord, but police have not been able to find him so far. Dempski says "a lot" of physical evidence, including some DNA samples, was driven by an HPD officer to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) lab in Raleigh in an effort to expedite its handling by the SBI's swamped data analysis lab.
The Cornelius police department is eager to receive the DNA results as well. CPD investigators want to determine if this crime is related to an abduction and rape that took place in Cornelius this summer. Then, four Hispanic men abducted a woman from a downtown Cornelius home and took her to a site in Cabarrus County where she was assaulted.
Read original source story here. I've read enough. I'm ready to join the fight against illegal immigration.
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Re: Latino Group Questions The Investigation of Illegal Alien Gang Rape (Score: 1)
by DarylJ on Tuesday, October 26 @ 11:41:56 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | The first thing that caught my eye on this story is that the INS has ALREADY DEPORTED one of the people at the scene found to be an illegal alien. Am I just painting a rosy picture, or does it seem like with the peoper staffing and funding, the INS already has the teeth to do their job.
Bottom line, there's a lot of "low hanging fruit" out there. In my own community, I know that the PD knows where to go to find illegals. What it seems they don't know is how to get rid of them. If the INS took a more proactive approach with local PDs, it seems that we could solve a good portion of the problems we have with current resident illegal immigrants. |
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Re: Latino Group Questions The Investigation of Illegal Alien Gang Rape (Score: 1)
by joeyfromdc on Wednesday, October 27 @ 06:51:45 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | It is incredible to me that Mauda M. the latino activist is going after the credibility of the police and the victim. The rapist will have a trial. I am sick of the latino community screaming racism all of the time. These illegal aliens should be on their best behavoir if they don't want to be deported. The activists need to stop pretending that all the illegal aliens are just hard working people who don't commit any crimes at all. Just by being here they are committing a felony. The rapists shouldn't be painted out to be innocent victims of racist cops. These people don't belong here and Mauda should remember that before she starts speaking out for them. The fact that these people are latino isn't the issue. The fact that they are illegal aliens isn't the issue. They are violent rapists that have no business being in this society at all. Illegal aliens have no business in this country at all. The Latino groups have to stop all of the complaining, demanding, and the name calling they do. I can't believe they are making allegations about the police or the victim. Someone needs to start sueing these groups for their accusations and lies. They are way out of line. If this is what America is going to have to put up with this every time the police do their job or when an illegal is held accountible for their crime, then I think that it is time to nip it in the bud and enforce the laws and deport people immediately. |
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