Gwinnett County, Georgia is experiencing an illegal alien crime wave

March 19, 2011

•By Dave Gibson, Immigration Reform Examiner

Last month, two very high profile crimes in which children were killed occurred in Gwinnett County, Georgia. In addition to the tragic loss of young lives, both cases had something else in common…both of the suspects charged in each of the horrific crimes were illegal aliens.

On February 9, Gwinnett County police responded to a gruesome crime scene and found two boys, 1-year-old Edward Garcia and 3-year-old Bradley Garcia stabbed to death, and the boys’ father and 3-year-old brother also suffering from severe stab wounds.

The surviving toddler was taken by helicopter to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, and the father, Elvis Garcia, 23, was also taken to a local hospital. Both survived.

Police arrested Antonio Cardenas-Rico, 28, and charged him with two counts of murder.

However, the father’s story quickly unraveled and police soon charged Garcia with killing his own sons.

Elvis Garcia is now awaiting trial, charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.

While the murder charges against Antonio Cardenas-Rico (also an illegal alien) were dropped, he is also currently being held in the Gwinnett County Detention Center on unrelated drug charges.

-On February 17, firefighters responded to a house fire in Lilburn in which three children, ages 18 months to 4 years, died from smoke inhalation. It was quickly determined that the deadly fire was the result of an explosion from chemicals used to make methamphetamine.

Narcotics investigators also found more than $192,000 hidden in the walls of the home, nine pounds of liquid meth and one pound of “finishedâ€