Thread: UTAH...Millard County deputy shot, killed; SWAT at west SLC

id like to see the family sure the mexican consulate in salt lake. and the mexican government for showing their peo-ple how to enter ilelgally and blend in to society and not stick out

Another American citizen killed at the hands of an illegal invader who has already been deported probably several times.

This American was killed simply trying to do her job to keep us safe!! Another death on the hands of our corrupted politicians who refuse to protect the citizens of this country as they have sworn to do!

Accused Cop Killer In The Country Illegally Printer Friendly Version Reported by: Rod Decker
Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010 @01:43pm CST

The man accused of shooting and killing a Utah deputy was in the country illegally. Depending on how you count, he’s been deported three times.

Last May, Roberto Miramontes Roman opened a MySpace page and posted several pictures of himself posing with guns. But he was a felon and he wasn't supposed to have guns. In addition, he was in the United States illegally.

Roberto Roman entered the United States legally in 1990

In 1992, he was convicted of a misdemeanor for drugs.

In 1996, he was charged with felonies for intent to sell and weapons.

In 1997, he pleaded guilty to two drug felonies, but instead of serving a long time in prison, he was deported to Mexico.

In 2005, he was back in the country convicted of misdemeanor reentry in arizona served jail time and sent back to Mexico

A short while later he was caught trying to get back in the country in San Diego.

A federal agent looked at this record and told 2News Roman's actions show no respect for our borders, no respect for our laws.


http://connect2utah.com/content/fulltext/?cid=69761

Suspect in deputy's murder deported multiple times
January 6th, 2010 @ 5:33pm
By Sarah Dallof

SALT LAKE CITY -- We're learning even more about the man accused of shooting and killing a Millard County sheriff's deputy Tuesday. In addition to numerous drug convictions, Roberto Roman's background also includes the fact that he was deported from the United States in 1998.

Roman legally entered the United States in 1990, only to be deported eight years later following felony drug convictions. Since then, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says Roman has been arrested twice for illegally re-entering the United States and federally prosecuted once for the same offense.


Roman arrest record
• May 1992:

- Distribution of controlled substance

• Aug. 1996:

- Distribute/offer/arrange to distribute controlled substance
- Theft by receiving stolen property
- Illegal possession/use of controlled substance

• Sept. 1996:

- Illegal possession/use of controlled substance

• April 1997:

- Possession with intent to distribute controlled substance
- Use or possession of drug paraphernalia
- Carrying concealed dangerous weaponStill, Roman didn't seem to be hiding. A simple search netted his MySpace page, which had numerous photos of Roman holding guns. His location was listed as Delta, Utah.

"There's no excuse for this. This person never should have been here, and our federal government needs to step up and do their job," Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Wednesday.

ICE refused to answer questions on camera, saying it wasn't their place to comment. But the agency pointed to statistics showing an increase in the number of criminal aliens removed from the country: 136,000 last year, up from 92,000 in 2006.

Related: 2 men arrested in deputy's murder
Two men wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Millard County sheriff's deputy were arrested in Beaver County Wednesday morning. But with just 15,000 agents across the country, immigration and criminal attorney German Flores says ICE is fighting an uphill battle.

"There's no way they can stop that," Flores said.

Flores says aggravated re-entry cases carry heavy penalties and prison time, and he sees most clients deported on felony charges stay out of the United States. The fraction of that population that doesn't, however, may be the most dangerous.

"When people have a long history of criminality in the states or in another country, more than likely those people don't care about what they're losing because they have nothing to lose," Flores said.

Flores says he's seen clients arrested go to prison anywhere from three to six years for aggravated re-entry. The U.S. Attorney's Office says a sentence can be up to 20 years, depending on the offender's criminal history.

E-mail: sdallof@ksl.com


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"There's no excuse for this. This person never should have been here, and our federal government needs to step up and do their job," Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Wednesday.

Exactly!

Suspects in cop's death caught
Beaver County » Homeowner calls police and tells them two men are sleeping in his shed.
By Mark Havnes



Updated: 01/06/2010 07:35:01 PM MST



Fallen officer remembered for unwavering compassionJan 5:
Statewide manhunt under way for alleged cop killerA 37-hour manhunt through several counties ended swiftly and peacefully Wednesday morning when a tip led Beaver County deputies to two men wanted in the death of a Millard County sheriff's deputy.

Roberto Miramontes Roman and Ruben Chavez Reyes were sleeping in a shed in northern Beaver about 8:15 a.m. when SWAT officers rushed in and arrested the pair.

"I believe in the element of surprise," said Beaver County Sheriff Cameron Noel. "We're happy they're in custody and no one was hurt."

Roman, 37, is suspected of fatally shooting Millard County sheriff's Deputy Josie Fox after she stopped his vehicle at 1 a.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 50 in Delta.

Roman has been charged with capital murder and tampering with evidence and could face the death penalty if convicted. He was taken to the Millard County jail in anticipation of an arraignment today in Fillmore's 4th District Court.

Noel said a homeowner called at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday from a mobile home park in northern Beaver saying there were two men sleeping in his shed. Ten deputies, some trained as SWAT officers, entered the shed and quickly handcuffed the pair.

Noel said it is unknown how the men arrived in Beaver, as no vehicles linked to them have been found.

Millard County Sheriff Robert Dekker said Chavez would be interviewed but did not know if any charges would be sought against him. He said police are looking for others who may have aided Roman.

Chavez, 36, was in custody on an immigration hold, according to Lindsay Mitchell, public information officer for the Millard County Sheriff's Office. Both men are Mexican nationals.

The Utah County Sheriff's Office, which is leading the investigation for Millard County, checked the shed for evidence, but Noel did not know if any weapons or drugs were found. Federal agents were also on scene.

After four hours of interviews, Roman and Chavez were each taken in a Millard County Sheriff's Office patrol car from Beaver County jail to Millard County jail. They were escorted by a caravan of about a dozen police vehicles from both county departments and the Utah Highway Patrol, all with lights flashing.

Fox, a 37-year-old mother of two, was gunned down about 1 a.m. Tuesday about one mile east of Delta, shortly after she pulled over a 1995 gray Cadillac Deville driven by Roman. Sheriff's investigators say Roman shot and killed her with a bullet that entered her chest just above her protective vest.

Roman's car was one of two vehicles deputies were watching Tuesday in connection with possible thefts and break-ins in the area. The driver of the second car, according to court documents filed Tuesday, was Ryan

If you are having trouble, download the Flash® player.Greathouse, Fox's brother. The documents say that during the meeting on the dirt road, Greathouse bought drugs from Roman.

The Millard County sheriff said he is not seeking criminal charges against 40-year-old Greathouse, who later gave police Roman's telephone number and said Roman had family on Salt Lake City's west side.

Hours later, Roman's cell phone was recorded by a tower on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake County. About 4 a.m., a state trooper near 1100 West and 300 South in Salt Lake City found an orange Corvette with the license plate that belonged to the Cadillac.

Three SWAT teams deployed in that neighborhood looking for Roman. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Nigbur said the teams found Roman's uncle hiding in a shed, but no sign of Roman.

Meanwhile, police found the Cadillac abandoned outside Nephi and received information Roman might be at a nearby home.

Nephi Police Chief Mike Morgan said the woman at the home was uncooperative and a SWAT team was called. The woman eventually left the house and police questioned her, Morgan said. After she consented to a search, police found no one inside the house.

Dekker said police had not had a run-in with Roman since 2005.

Immigration officials said Wednesday that both Roman and Reyes are Mexican nationals who are in the United States illegally.

According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Roman was admitted to the United States legally in 1990, but was deported in 1998 to his native country because of criminal convictions.

He was arrested twice after that for illegally re-entering the United States and prosecuted in 2005 in U.S. District Court in Arizona for that offense, according to ICE. Court records show he was sentenced to 150 days in prison.

Utah state court records show that Roman has a significant criminal history, beginning in 1992 with a misdemeanor drug distribution charge to which he pleaded guilty in Fillmore. In 1996 and 1997, Roman was charged in Millard County in two different cases with a handful of felonies, including drug charges, receiving stolen property and a weapons count.

He was sent to prison for up to 15 years after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree felony drug possession with intent to distribute and one count of third-degree felony drug possession.

In the 1996 case, an informant told police he had been selling drugs for Roman for about a year, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in 4th District Court. The informant also told police he had traded a Tech 9mm semi-automatic pistol to Roman for drugs, and that he believed Roman kept the weapon and a cache of illegal drugs in a back bedroom of his Delta area trailer home.

On Sept. 15, 1998, Roman was released from prison into the custody of immigration authorities and deported.

Greathouse was convicted of a misdemeanor drug charge in 1994 and again in 2004, according to court documents. Tuesday's documents do not specify what drug he allegedly bought.

Bob Mims, Nate Carlisle, Stephen Hunt and Pamela Manson contributed to this report.


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Undocumented status of Roman, Reyes sparks outrage
BY JENNIFER WEAVER • jeweaver@thespectrum.com • January 7, 2010

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CEDAR CITY — The undocumented citizenship of the two suspects taken into custody in the fatal shooting death of Millard County sheriff’s deputy Josie Greathouse Fox has outraged elected officials from the national to local level.




Roberto Miramontes Roman, 37, and Ruben Chavez Reyes, 36, were captured Wednesday morning, asleep in a shed in Beaver. The two men fled in a gray 1995 Cadillac Deville registered to Chavez Reyes after a traffic stop was conducted by Fox one mile east of Delta on state Route 50, at approximately 1 a.m., Tuesday. Fox was found dead by a fellow deputy on the side of the road with her gun still holstered at 1:09 a.m. with a single gunshot wound to her chest, just above her bullet-resistant vest.
Roman, the suspected shooter, has been charged with aggravated murder. Chavez Reyes was charged with felony obstructing justice. Both men were booked Wednesday night in the Millard County Jail and are also being held on immigration violations. They appeared Thursday before a Millard County judge in Fillmore.


“It’s so frustrating. People are fed up. I’m fed up,â€

Nothing about this in my hometown papers. Hmm I wonder why?

Added update to the Homepage:
http://www.alipac.us/article-4822--0-0.html

Shooting raises questions, anger
Suspects' immigrant status outrages officials
BY JENNIFER WEAVER • jeweaver@thespectrum.com • January 8, 2010

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CEDAR CITY - The citizenship of the two suspects taken into custody in the shooting death of Millard County sheriff's deputy Josie Greathouse Fox has outraged elected officials from the national to local level.




Fox was found dead on the side of the road by a fellow deputy - her gun still in her holster - at 1:09 a.m. Tuesday with a single gunshot wound to her chest, just above her bullet-resistant vest.
Roberto Miramontes Roman, 37, and Ruben Chavez Reyes, 36, who were captured Wednesday morning, asleep in a shed in Beaver, are both illegal immigrants, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports. Roman, the suspected shooter, has been charged with aggravated murder. Chavez Reyes was charged with felony obstructing justice. Both men were booked Wednesday night in the Millard County Jail and are also being held on immigration charges. They appeared Thursday before a Millard County judge in Fillmore.
"It's so frustrating. People are fed up. I'm fed up," said 3rd Congressional District Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Provo. "There is absolutely no excuse for this. The federal government did not do its job. Law enforcement is so woefully outmanned. We have not locked down the border. It's so easy to get across (the border). For just a thousand dollars anyone can make it. The federal government has not taken securing the borders seriously."

The Associated Press reported Roman had a lengthy criminal history after entering the country legally in 1990. His first arrest was in 1992 with a misdemeanor drug distribution charge, which he pleaded guilty to in Fillmore. In 1996 and 1997, he was charged in Millard County in two different cases with a handful of felonies, including drug charges, receiving stolen property and a weapons offense, the AP reported.
Roman was sentenced to prison for up to 15 years after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree felony drug possession with intent to distribute and one count of third-degree felony drug possession, the AP said. He was released from prison, Sept. 15, 1998 into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported. However, Roman was arrested two more times for illegally re-entering the United States. He was prosecuted in 2005 in U.S. District Court in Arizona for that offense, ICE reported. Court records show he was sentenced to 150 days in prison, the AP said.


"There has to be serious consequences to being here illegally, and there isn't," Chaffetz said. "People disregard the law because there are no serious consequences and we need to toughen up the penalties, such as making sure visa perimeters are enforced and, certainly, when there are aggravating circumstances, those people need to serve significant jail time."

ICE Western Regional Communications Director Virginia Kice said there is currently an expansive and successful program to identify, arrest and remove illegal immigrants who commit crimes from the United States, as shown by the deportation statistics that increased from 92,263 in 2006 to 136,126 last year.
"Understand, people like Roman demonstrate with their actions with repeated illegal immigration attempts that they do not have respect for our laws or our border and have contacts with criminal organizations, and those contacts enable them to successfully breach our border," Kice said. "The public needs to understand that deporting criminal aliens is a high priority and we work closely with local law enforcement across the country, and in Utah, to identify deportable aliens incarcerated in local jails ... We have 15,000 ICE agents nationwide and there are several hundred thousand law enforcement officers, so understand that in many cases illegal immigrants are going to encounter local enforcement before we become aware of their presence."
Lack of enforcement resources is a problem former Utah U.S. Attorney General Brett L. Tolman said entices people to enter the country illegally. Utah has had anywhere between 15 to 24 ICE agents to service the entire state, a deficiency that makes deportation of illegal immigrants difficult, Tolman said.

"One of the interesting dynamics when you talk about illegal immigration is that border states receive intense resources and they would argue they don't have enough, but they receive so many in contrast to interior states and it is so often a problem for states like Utah and Colorado because it is not the intent of those coming across the border to stay in the bordering states but to get into the interior states where illegal immigration is perceived as less of a focus and has less enforcement resources."


Tolman continued, "That is a challenge and why Utah presents an area where you see a very high per capita and high ratio of illegal immigration population."

Chaffetz offered a partial solution to dampen the desire of people crossing the borders illegally by ceasing to give them incentives.
"Our state provides in-state tuition and driver's licenses, and all of that are incentives for people to be here illegally. I think it's wrong," Chaffetz said.
He also said it is a mistake for local law enforcement agencies not to participate in the 287G program that offers training and certification to officers to enforce immigration laws.

"Immigration law is terribly complicated, but is simple to me and while there are some details and it may cost a little bit of money, local law enforcement - such as county sheriffs or local city police - can get certification and the legal training to be able to enforce the federal laws and again, we still need to fight the feds to do their job, but absent that, the 287G program needs to fully implemented in Utah," he said.
Southern Utah is the perfect place to lead that charge, said St. George City Councilman Benjamin Nickle.
"If this crime was, in fact, committed by illegal immigrants, I hope we make a strong example of how the Southern Utah justice system works for such criminals," Nickle said. "Any crimes, heinous or petty, committed by illegal immigrants in our community is a reflection on our national failure to enforce our immigration policies. That national failure must stop somewhere, and I aim to see Southern Utah as a turning point with this national issue."


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