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Teen driver wanted in DPS helicopter shooting deported — again

Joel Martinez
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A red pickup truck is carted away after a law enforcement pursuit of a vehicle suspected of carrying illegal immigrants on Mile 7 Road north of La Joya on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. DPS confirmed a sharpshooter aboard a helicopter was cleared to fire on the pickup because it was believed the vehicle was carrying a drug load — not people. Photo by Joel Martinez/jmartinez@themonitor.com
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Chris Sherman
Aerial Chase-Fatal Shooting


FILE - In a Friday Oct. 26, 2012 file photo, a truck travels along the stretch of gravel road near La Joya, Texas, where a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter and sharpshooter assisted the previous day in the chase of a suspected illegal immigrant smuggler. Two people in the fleeing vehicle were killed and a third was wounded. A grand jury will consider the case of two Guatemalan immigrants killed in the bed of the tarp-covered truck that authorities thought was ferrying drugs, a prosecutor said Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Sherman, File)


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Aerial Chase-Fatal Shooting


FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2012 file photo, the sun rises along the stretch of gravel road near La Joya, Texas, where a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter and sharpshooter assisted the previous day in the chase of a suspected illegal immigrant smuggler. A grand jury will consider the case of two Guatemalan immigrants killed in the bed of the tarp-covered truck that authorities thought was ferrying drugs, a prosecutor said Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Sherman, File)


Posted: Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:18 pm
Teen driver wanted in DPS helicopter shooting deported — again Jacob Fischler | The Monitor The Monitor
Posted on July 11, 2013

• by Jacob Fischler

EDINBURG – The teenage driver of a pickup truck that Texas state troopers fired upon last October — killing two Guatemalan nationals and inciting a minor international incident — again avoided arrest after federal authorities detained him on immigration charges, but deported him.
Judge Jesse Contreras issued a directive to apprehend — a juvenile arrest warrant — the Mexican teen Wednesday after learning he had twice come into contact with federal authorities.
“Now, I want to deal with him,” the 449^th state District Court judge said Thursday in a telephone interview.
Contreras learned on Wednesday that federal immigration authorities had twice apprehended the teenager and deported him — without notifying local authorities.
“The feds never should have deported him,” Contreras said.
He added that they should have seen the teen — believed to be 14 or 15 years old — had a judgment against him from Contreras’ court, and should have contacted the judge at that point.
“I’m frustrated by the lack of communication between the state agencies and the federal agencies,” he said.
The teen was released into his parents’ custody immediately following the October shooting, due to a communication breakdown between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the juvenile detention center, according to Monitor archives. He was arrested in McAllen on unrelated theft charge in December.
Contreras said he placed him on strict probation, and was held in a juvenile facility until last month, when he was deported to Mexico.
The DPS trooper’s fatal shooting of the immigrants prompted the agency to drop its policy allowing troopers to open fire on vehicular chases from helicopters, unless they’ve been fired upon first. No charges have been filed against the Miguel Avila, the trooper who opened fire on the truck.
Federal authorities have twice apprehended and deported him since then, Contreras said, without naming the agency.
The teen’s apparent return to the Rio Grande Valley and human smuggling shows that deporting the teenager again will be of little use, Contreras said.
The directive to apprehend the teen should have gone out to every law enforcement agency — local, state and federal — operating in Hidalgo County, Contreras said. He hopes that if the juvenile is again caught by law enforcement at any level, the warrant will bring him back into Contreras’ courtroom.
“Right now, my main goal is to get this kid into our custody,” he said.

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