Thread: Illegal Mexican caught at TX/Mex border after murdering wife, babies Jamaica, Queens

One of the reasons Queens, NY is such a garbage pit is because of the huge number of people just like Miguel who've moved there illegally from Central and South America. We could send several young students to an Ivy League school for what this will cost the taxpayers. Too bad he didn't do this in Texas.

http://nypost.com/2014/01/24/dad-kil...r-mexico-trip/

He had two domestic violence charges and should have been deported.
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Dad killed kids, wife ‘because he didn’t have car seats’

By Kathryn Cusma
January 24, 2014 | 1:55pm

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Miguel Mejias-Ramos, right, in Queens Friday. He admitted to brutally stabbing his wife, Deisy and their two daughters.Photo: Facebook/Brigitte Stelzer

He said he slashed his two baby girls to death because he’d just killed their mother — and he didn’t have car seats to take them with him to Mexico, outraged officials revealed as craven Queens dad Miguel Mejia-Ramos was arraigned on murder charges Friday.

Hauled back to New York from the Mexican border, Mejia-Ramos, 28, was expressionless as a judge ordered him held with no bail for allegedly slaughtering his wife, Deisy, 21, and daughters Daniela, 3, and Yoselin, 1, during a jealousy-fueled, five-knife rampage.

“I was going to take them with me, but I didn’t have car seats,” the monster told cops, according to a confession released Friday.

Mejia-Ramos admitted that he killed Deisy and then the girls in their Jamaica bedroom after searching his wife’s phone and finding pictures of her with another man, officials said.

He grabbed several knives from a butcher block and stood over Deisy as she slept with one daughter on either side, according to the confession.

“Deisy wakes up and screams. He drops one knife on the bed. He stabs her, she runs to the front of the bedroom, and he stabs her with another knife which he says he twists in her side and it breaks,” the confession reads.

“He goes back to the girls. He sees Daniela is awake. He picks her up, give[s] her a hug and kiss, asks for forgiveness, then puts her down on the bed and stabs her approximately three times,” the confession said.

“He then picks up Yoselin, gives her a hug and kiss, places her on the bed and stabs her multiple times. He goes over to Deisy’s body and asks her for forgiveness, too.”

“I’ve been to many crime scenes,” Queens DA Richard Brown said. “But this one “was very disturbing … my heart goes out to the family.”

Additional new details of the horrific bedroom bloodbath were revealed by prosecutors during Friday’s brief court proceeding.

Mejia-Ramos told cops he’d made a brief feint at killing himself in the Sutphin Avenue apartment— first stabbing himself in the chest, then trying to hang himself with a cord, prosecutor Michelle Kaszuba said, referring to Mejia-Ramos’ confession.

But having failed, he decided to make a run for it, washing his bloody hands with the dead girls’ diaper wipes before showering and hitting the road, Kaszuba said.
The illegal immigrant was caught Monday, driving through Texas on I-85 during a non-stop dash for the border of Mexico, his country of citizenship. Three hours more, and he’d have made it, officials said.

The prosecutor also revealed that Mejia-Ramos told authorities he took $240 as a “getaway fund” from his wife’s diaper bag because he didn’t want to get tracked by using credit cards.

He said he had seen the TV show “I Almost Got Away With It,” and knew he needed to avoid plastic, officials said.

Mejia-Ramos would instead be tracked by US Marshals via phone calls he made to family members in Mexico.

The prosecutor said Mejia-Ramos had originally claimed to cops that he’d come home to find that his wife had killed the two little girls and that he then stabbed her in self-defense.

He came clean with the whole story as he was being flown back to the city by Queens detectives, the prosecutor said.

Mejia-Ramos has no known criminal history other than two domestic-violence incidents, Brown said.

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Woman Files Domestic Abuse Report in Spanish. Police Never Translate It to English. Now The Worst Thing Imaginable Has Happened to Her and Her Daughters.

Feb. 20, 2014
Dave Urbanski

After Deisy Garcia filed a domestic-abuse report last May in her native language, Spanish, it was never translated into English for review, New York City Police said according to CNN.

But that wasn’t the only time the Queens, N.Y. mother of two sought help from authorities. She filed two reports concerning her husband’s violence and threats last November, at least one of them in Spanish.

On Jan. 17, Garcia and her daughters, Daniela, 2, and Yoselin, 1, were found stabbed to death in their apartment, allegedly by Garcia’s husband and the girls’ father, Miguel Mejia-Ramos.

Image source: WCBS-TV

And there’s no explanation from the NYPD why English translation didn’t occur or why action apparently wasn’t taken.

“I knew about the police report, and I knew about the police showing up at the house previously on one of the times where Deisy had called the police because she had been the victim of domestic violence,” Roger Asmar, an attorney hired by Garcia’s family, told CNN. “But we did not know that every time Deisy filled out a report — every time she went to the precinct or the cops came to the house — no one actually translated the text into English, so, apparently no one looked into it.

“No one translated it and they just put it away or placed it into the system … three complaints were filed by Deisy, and none of the times she filed a complaint did police actually arrest Mr. Mejia, her ex-husband.” (TheBlaze confirmed Thursday with the Queens, N.Y. district attorney’s office thatMejia was, in fact, Garcia’s husband, not ex-husband.)

Garcia’s family says that had police responded more proactively, she might still be alive.

“If they would have given it more importance, would have translated it to English, then maybe they (police) would have figured out what to do, they would have investigated him, been more on top of the case, what was happening with them,” Luzmina Alvarado, Garcia’s mother, told CNN. “If the police had done something, this tragedy could have been avoided — my daughter would be alive.”

In statements to police following his arrest, Mejia-Ramos, 28, allegedly said he’d been drinking on the night of January 18, arrived home, went through Garcia’s phone and Facebook account, saw a photo of her with another man and “snapped,” noted the Queen’s district attorney’s office.

Miguel Mejia-Ramos (Image source: WCBS-TV)

Mejia-Ramos reportedly used two knives to stab Garcia multiple times before giving his daughters each a hug and a kiss, asking forgiveness, then stabbing them both multiple times.

On May 30, Garcia filed a police report in Spanish saying she feared her husband would kill her and their two daughters. CNN said it obtained copies of similar reports dated November 27 and 28 from Garcia’s family, who found them among Deisy Garcia’s belongings after her death.

In the November 27, police apparently responded to a call from Garcia, who reported in Spanish that her husband threatened to kill her: “…at about 2:40 am my husband came home and assaulted me, he pulled my hair and kicked me twice, then grabbed my phone. After he did that, I called the police, but he changed and ran out taking a phone that is not mine with him. Today in the morning, he was threatening me that he would take away my daughters.”

About two months before Garcia filed her domestic-abuse report in May, a group focused on “limited English proficient” domestic-violence victims filed a lawsuit against the New York City on behalf of six other Latina women, alleging the NYPD denies interpreters to those with limited English-speaking ability, in effect depriving “them of access to NYPD services.”
“Not only does the NYPD fail to provide language assistance, it also degrades, ridicules and otherwise mistreats limited English proficient individuals who request interpreter services, actively demeaning them for their lack of English proficiency,” according to the lawsuit filed by the Violence Intervention Program, CNN noted.

The NYPD directed CNN’s inquiries regarding the lawsuit to the New York City Law Department, which said: “The NYPD has more foreign-language-speaking officers than any police department in the country, including thousands of Spanish-speaking officers. Also, the NYPD has a corps of 19,000 members of the service who can provide interpretation services in over 70 languages.”

After the slayings, Mejia-Ramos attempted to enter Mexico but was arrested Jan. 21 in Schulenburg, Texas, near the border, and was returned to New York. Mejia-Ramos allegedly told police he killed his daughters because he didn’t have car seats for them, CBS News reported.

Image source: WCBS-TV

He’s charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted on the murder charge, according to the district attorney’s office.

Due to an internal review into the failure to translate domestic incident reports, the NYPD is verbally instructing officers how to translate and store domestic incident reports in languages other than English.

“A memo will be transmitted to all commands informing domestic violence officers to immediately locate a member of the command who possesses the necessary language skills to translate a victim’s written statement to English,” NYPD Detective Cheryl Crispin told CNN.

That’s not likely enough for Garcia’s family.

“We’re thinking maybe we sue the police because this wasn’t just his (Mejia-Ramos’) fault, the authorities are also at fault,” Garcia’s mother told CNN.

“My daughter may be dead and can’t do anything in this case, but I want justice.”

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