Thread: Not even a mention he is an ILLEGAL ALIEN

I know this from when the crime was committed. But now they don't tell you...

Published: 11.10.2007
Killer of Queen Creek family gets 113 years
The Associated Press

A man has been sentenced to 113 years in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend's family and kidnapping his children, who were later found in Mexico.
Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala received the maximum sentence possible Friday.
Maricopa County prosecutors had agreed not to seek the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole to secure Cervantes' extradition.
Cervantes was convicted last summer of breaking into a home near Queen Creek in July 2005 and killing his children's grandparents and uncle.
He then fled to his native Mexico with the children, who were 19 months and 3 years old.
Cervantes and the children were found near Puerto Vallarta about a week after the killings.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/68344.php

Originally Posted by mapwife

I know this from when the crime was committed. But now they don't tell you...

Published: 11.10.2007
Killer of Queen Creek family gets 113 years
The Associated Press

A man has been sentenced to 113 years in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend's family and kidnapping his children, who were later found in Mexico.
Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala received the maximum sentence possible Friday.
Maricopa County prosecutors had agreed not to seek the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole to secure Cervantes' extradition.
Cervantes was convicted last summer of breaking into a home near Queen Creek in July 2005 and killing his children's grandparents and uncle.
He then fled to his native Mexico with the children, who were 19 months and 3 years old.
Cervantes and the children were found near Puerto Vallarta about a week after the killings.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/68344.php

Mapwife the sanctuaries have to protect their people. I live in Illinois and they only give names and status if someone has a loaded shot gun pointed at the heads of every employee at the newspaper.

This is common practice. Even here in Nashville Tennessee. I have been edumacated over the years...if the name ain't in there, then it's probably an illegal. I have followed up on many stories and yep...they be illegal. Not all of the time but at least 90%

THAT IS WHY the NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY IS IN DECLINE... they are no longer a trusted sourse of information...

It message is always skewed to deliver the message they want you to hear... and the truth is ALWAYS Distorted

Missing kids' dad dodged deportation

Josh Kelley
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 14, 2005 12:00 AM

Getting released from jail shortly after being arrested last year probably prevented the undocumented immigrant linked to Sunday's triple murder and kidnapping near Queen Creek from being deported.

Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala, 34, was arrested March 31, 2004, by Phoenix police after stealing $3,298 worth of materials from a former employer and was released from custody the same day, according to court records.

Federal immigration officials apparently did not have enough time to retain him for deportation, said Russell Ahr, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in Arizona.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sends instructions to detain jailed undocumented immigrants for deportation 24 hours a day. If federal officials in Vermont are unable to verify the immigration status of a person arrested in Arizona, the case is sent to Arizona's ICE office, which investigates such cases only during business hours Monday through Friday.

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The result is that undocumented immigrants are regularly released from jail before ICE can identify their status, Ahr said.

"It's all a matter of timing in the case of Cervantes," Ahr said. "In this case, timely means before the guy gets released."

Cervantes Zavala later pleaded guilty to third-degree burglary, a Class 4 felony. He was sentenced to two years on probation. If he had been sentenced to jail, ICE would have had a chance to deport him.

Late Sunday night, the parents and brother of his ex-girlfriend, Isabel Acosta, were found shot to death in a house just outside Queen Creek.

Acosta's two children, 3-year-old Jennifer and 18-month-old Bryan, are missing, and authorities continue to search for them and their father, Cervantes Zavala.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has not listed Cervantes Zavala as a suspect and continues to follow up on leads in the case, said Sgt. Kip Rustenburg, a spokeswoman.

In November, Arizona voters will decide a constitutional amendment that would require undocumented immigrants who commit a serious crime to be held behind bars without bail while their cases are pending in court.

Ahr said that ICE records show Cervantes Zavala was in federal custody in 1996 under unknown circumstances and accepted an offer to voluntarily return to Mexico, which means he waived his right to appear before an immigration judge and dispute deportation.

He was convicted of misdemeanor assault against his common-law wife, not Acosta, in 1995 and 1998 in Glendale.

Antonio Bustamante, a member of the Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association, said it's rare for undocumented immigrants to avoid deportation after being arrested.

"It's my experience that they will always put a hold on a person who is undocumented once they're in jail, and immigration will come get them regardless if it's an aggravated felony or not," Bustamante said.

But sometimes undocumented immigrants who are not sentenced to jail time avoid deportation, he said.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Wednesday that all undocumented immigrants convicted of any crime should be deported.

He also criticized deportation practices.

"I can't understand what rationale ICE uses for deporting or retaining illegal immigrants in Arizona," Thomas said.

He said undocumented immigrants who are convicted of felonies are sometimes not deported while undocumented immigrants accused of serious crimes can be deported after posting bail before they stand trial.

Ahr defended efforts by ICE to deport thousands of undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies in Arizona.

"The numbers speak for themselves," Ahr said.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...pleslay14.html