Thread: Texas illegal alien suspect arrested in bludgeoning of seven California men

Suspect arrested in bludgeoning of seven California men, three of them fatal

By Steve Gorman
,Reuters•September 25, 2018

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man who fled to California from Texas after being questioned in the disappearance of two Houston relatives has been arrested on suspicion of committing seven bludgeoning attacks, three of them fatal, in the Los Angeles area this month, police said on Tuesday.

Ramon Escobar, 47, faces three counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder in a case investigators in Los Angeles and the adjacent beachfront city of Santa Monica are preparing to present to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, police said.

Los Angeles Police Department Captain William Hayes described Escobar as a "previously deported felon" who is originally from El Salvador and applied for and was possibly granted asylum in the United States.

He served five years in state prison in Texas, from 1995 to 2000, on a burglary conviction, and was arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal trespass in Texas during the past two years, Hayes told a news conference.

Six of the seven victims Escobar is accused of attacking in Southern California were homeless men, and all appeared to have been bludgeoned in the head while they slept outdoors, police said. A baseball bat recovered from Escobar's car, and a pair of bolt-cutters found at the scene of one of the attacks were identified as the weapons he used, Hayes said.

The police captain said Escobar was apparently homeless himself and that robbery was the suspected motive for the attacks, which the police captain called crimes of opportunity.

"He is a violent predator," Hayes told reporters.
Escobar was jailed without bond in Santa Monica following his arrest there on Monday shortly after the latest attack. It was not clear if he had an attorney yet.

At least two of the surviving victims remain hospitalized in a coma, Hayes said.

Hayes said Escobar was already considered a "person of interest" by Houston police investigating the unsolved disappearance of two relatives he had been living with in that city.

The two family members, identified by the Los Angeles Times as an aunt and uncle, went missing in late August.

Hayes said Escobar was questioned by Houston police on Aug. 30 before he "fled the state of Texas," traveling by car to Southern California and arriving in Los Angeles on Sept. 5. The first attack of which he is suspected occurred three days later.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-ch...181526904.html

Man held in series of killings and beatings in Los Angeles area was previously deported

"He's preying on innocent people ... our victims were asleep and he went up and did it," Los Angeles police Capt. William Hayes said.

by Phil Helsel and Andrew Blankstein / Sep.25.2018 / 3:13 AM PDT / Updated 8:45 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — A man suspected in the beating deaths of three people and the attacks on four other people while they were sleeping in Santa Monica and Los Angeles is from El Salvador and was previously deported, officials said Tuesday.

Ramon Escobar, 47, was arrested in Santa Monica on Monday morning after a man was found beaten in that city, and police said they have linked him to seven attacks in all in September in the two cities.

Three of those people, two men beaten in Los Angeles on Sept. 16 and a man found beaten beneath the Santa Monica pier on Sept. 20, died, and two people who survived the attacks remained in a coma on Tuesday, Los Angeles police Capt. William Hayes said.

Robbery is the suspected motive in most of the attacks and it appears as though they were crimes of opportunity, Hayes said.

Escobar "appears to have been homeless himself, and that it looks like he was attempting to gain funds or something from them," Hayes said.

Meanwhile in Texas, Houston Police said that Escobar is a person of interest in the disappearance of two of his relatives who went missing in late August. Hayes said that Escobar lived with those two people, and that after he was interviewed by Houston police on Aug. 30 Escobar is believed to have traveled to Los Angeles and the crimes of which he is accused began shortly after he arrived on Sept. 5.

A wooden baseball bat believed used in the two murders in Los Angeles was found Tuesday in a 2004 Honda CRV used by Escobar, and a pair of bolt cutters believed to have been used in the attack in Santa Monica that occurred at around 7 a.m. Monday was found at the scene of that crime scene, Hayes said.

After Monday’s attack in Santa Monica, a public service officer “noticed Ramon Escobar’s distinctive gait,” which police have described as bow-legged, and recognized his physical features and clothing from Los Angeles police information about the attacks in that city, Hayes said, and officers arrested him.

"He is a violent predator," Hayes said. "He’s preying on innocent people — in particular in most of these cases, our victims were asleep and he went up and did it," Hayes added.

Police will present the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office with three investigations of murder and four of attempted murder for charging consideration, Hayes said. Escobar is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday.

Houston Police
‏Ramon Escobar, nephew of missing persons Dina and Rogelio Escobar, was arrested in Santa Monica, California, yesterday. He's a person of interest in their disappearance in Houston. Our investigators want to speak with him. No other information at this time.


8:33 AM - 25 Sep 2018

Hayes said that Escobar served five years in prison, from 1995 to 2000 in Texas for a burglary case, and was arrested in November of 2017 for assault and in February of this year for criminal trespass.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that Escobar was ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge in 1988, and he was removed to El Salvador six times between 1997 and 2011.

"After illegally reentering the U.S. following his most-recent removal Alberto-Escobar filed an appeal of his immigration case with the Board of Immigration Appeals in June 2016, which the courts granted in December 2016. ICE released him from custody on an Order of Supervision in January 2017 pursuant to the court’s decision," the federal agency said in an email.

The first attack occurred in Santa Monica at around 6:45 a.m. on Sept. 8 when a person sleeping on the beach was assaulted, Santa Monica police Capt. Wendell Shirley said. That person suffered head injuries and has been released from the hospital but has no recollection of the incident.

On Sept. 10, another man in the same area was beaten while sleeping on the beach and remains in a coma, he said.

The person who was killed underneath the pier, identified as Steven Cruze Jr., 39, of the San Gabriel Valley, was found beaten on Sept. 20, and the man beaten on Monday was found near an intersection a few blocks up from the beach is also in a coma, Shirley said.

"We believe that the suspect in custody today is responsible for all four of those incidents," Shirley said. "The people that live, work and visit Santa Monica and Los Angeles are safer today because this suspect is in custody," he said.

Those who died in the Sept. 16 attacks in Los Angeles were identified as Kelvin Williams, 59, and Brandon Ridout, 24, both of whom were attacked in the city’s downtown. Another man who was severely beaten was identified as Tievon Harmon, 24, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Authorities at first described Cruze as homeless but family and friends said he was a father of two, who loved to fish at the pier, worked on boats in neighboring Marina Del Rey, and sometimes camped out under the pier to avoid the long commute home.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...attack-n912801

"Escobar as a "previously deported felon" who is originally from El Salvador and applied for and was possibly granted asylum in the United States.

He served five years in state prison in Texas, from 1995 to 2000"

wow

We cannot "vet" these people! And they keep letting them out on our streets!

They allow them in and BUS them into our neighborhoods!

DEPORT THEM ALL WITHIN 48 HOURS!

We are not the world's ATM machine or dumping ground!

Do not let them step foot on our soil.

I'm sure I am not the only one to notice this trend lately. It seems many of the most vicious and murderous illegal aliens have been deported numerous times. Our President and Congress need to take notice of this and secure our extremely weak and porous border!

*The L.A. Times has since reported that Escobar was "deported to El Salvador six times between 1997 and 2011. ICE said Escobar has six felony convictions for burglary and illegal reentry."
This story has been updated

http://www.laist.com/2018/09/25/here...nta_monica.php

UPDATE

"After illegally reentering the U.S. following his most-recent removal Alberto-Escobar filed an appeal of his immigration case with the Board of Immigration Appeals in June 2016, which the courts granted in December 2016,” ICE said in a statement, according to ABC 7. “ICE released him from custody on an Order of Supervision in January 2017 pursuant to the court's decision."
ICE has filed a detainer to take Escobar into custody if he is released.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/26...times-ice.html

Deported SIX times...paid for by US taxpayers!

Thousands deported NUMEROUS times...costing us a fortune and OUR lives!!!

Ordered removed 1988

5 years in Texas prison 1995 to 2000

Removed 6 times between 2000 and 2011

Appealed his immigration claim 6-2016
Immigration Appeal Granted 12-2016
ICE released him from custody on an Order of Supervision in January 2017 pursuant to the court's decision.


Arrested for assault 11-2017
Arrested for criminal trespass 2-2018


and they tell us they are vetting these people