Thread: Judge considers threat against AZ lawyer in immigrant case

Judge considers threat against AZ lawyer in immigrant case

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Kansas woman charged, accused of threatening AZ lawyer
A federal magistrate judge heard testimony Wednesday on prosecutors' case against a Mexican citizen living in Kansas who allegedly talked of harming a federal prosecutor in Arizona.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Bostwick did not rule immediately whether there was probable cause to proceed with the prosecution of 60-year-old Angela Ramos-Ocana, saying he would review the evidence presented in the preliminary hearing.

Ramos-Ocana, who lives in Dodge City, was charged last week with felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor illegal entry into the United States.

The charges stemmed from an investigation of phone conversations last September between Ramos-Ocana and her nephew Freddy Ovando-Ocana.

The nephew placed the calls from a Phoenix detention center where he was being held in connection with a human smuggling case.

In the calls, prosecutors said, Ramos-Ocana told the nephew to get the name of the assistant U.S. attorney handling his case in Arizona to see "what we can do here, to shut her mouth up."

Carl Hummell, a special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, testified Wednesday that when agents contacted her on March 26, Ramos-Ocana admitted she had been in the country illegally for four years.

Hummell also testified that two jailhouse calls recorded in September in Spanish matched the translated transcript submitted as evidence in the case, and that a son-in-law identified Ramos-Ocana's voice on the recordings.

The two transcripts show Ramos-Ocana repeatedly asking her nephew to get the prosecutor's name, at one point apparently suggesting a ruse for learning the name without raising suspicion.

"She wanted the name to stop the prosecutor," Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson argued during the preliminary hearing.

Defense attorney David Freund aruged that the government presented no evidence that Ramos-Ocana tried to harm the prosecutor.

Freund also suggested that the name of the prosecutor on any case is a matter of public record and that knowing the name is not illegal.

Agents also arrested along with Ramos-Ocana her two sons-in-laws who were found in her residence.

Wilson Mandujano-Diaz and Juan Estrada-Santiago were charged last week with possession of fraudulent documents and aggravated identity theft.

No attorney had entered an appearance in the case of Mandujano-Diaz.

A message left Wednesday for Estrada-Santiago's defense attorney, David Moses, was not immediately returned.

Mandujano-Diaz worked at Cargill Meat Solutions and Estrada-Santiago worked at National Beef under assumed names, according to the criminal complaints.

Both men had earlier waived their preliminary hearings in those cases.

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoen ... YdWyw.cspx

Yea, that's the way they do it in Mexico. Corruption, killing, violence and lawlessness...

Dixie

The bad and ugly is inside our Country.

a threat is a threat no matter if is make in a joke or made in passing.
Charge this person to the fullest extent of the LAW
then deport her

Posted on Mon, Jun. 08, 2009
Woman pleads guilty to paying smuggler to bring nephew into U.S.

WICHITA | An illegal immigrant living in Dodge City has cut a deal in a case involving alleged threats to an Arizona federal prosecutor.

Angela Ramos-Ocana, a native of Mexico, pleaded guilty Monday to a single charge of intentionally encouraging an alien to live in the United States. The 60-year-old woman admitted that she paid $1,000 to a smuggler to bring her nephew into the United States.

In return, the government is not pursuing more serious charges that included threats recorded during a jailhouse phone conversation regarding the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting her nephew.

As part of the plea deal, prosecutors are recommending she be sentenced to time served and deported. Her sentencing was set for Aug. 24.

www.kansascity.com

"The nephew placed the calls from a Phoenix detention center where he was being held in connection with a human smuggling case."
"The 60-year-old woman admitted that she paid $1,000 to a smuggler to bring her nephew into the United States."


So who was the smuggler she paid? Her nephew? She paid a smuggler $1000 to bring him here, and he is being held in connection with a human smuggling case? Don't they get an employee discount?
Where did she get the $1000 from? Her 2 sons-in-law, who were working in the U.S. using phony documents, meaning they are also illegal, and I assume at least 2 daughters are also illegal?
Send the whole mess of them home. If the sons-in-law or daughters are allowed to stay, they'll be able to make money (by taking jobs from Americans) to bring her back.