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$1 million bail for rape suspect

ANNA WALTERS
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

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BELLINGHAM — A Whatcom Superior Court judge set bail at $1 million Tuesday for rape suspect Hector Serano Salinas.

Salinas, 36, is charged with three counts of firstdegree rape while armed with a deadly weapon. He is accused of raping a woman in Maritime Heritage Park early Monday morning.

According to charging documents read by Whatcom County Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Sawyer, police officers were flagged down by a woman at 2 a.m. Monday near the post office at 315 Prospect St. The woman reported she had been raped at knifepoint at her campsite — a sleeping bag on a nearby cement bench — three times by a man she described as Hispanic and wearing a black stocking cap.

The victim told police she was dragged down the stairs into Maritime Heritage Park and raped again.

The victim was transported to St. Joseph Hospital for medical attention.

Using a police dog, an officer tracked the suspect and found him under a bridge by Whatcom Creek. The suspect ran from police, who chased and caught him. He allegedly had a black stocking cap in his backpack.

Salinas has a criminal background, including an outstanding arrest warrant for second-degree assault; and a conviction for firstdegree robbery.

According to Sawyer, who cited the National Crime Information Center, Salinas had several aliases, a felony drug conviction in California, and had been arrested several times for illegal entry into the U.S. and deported to Mexico.

His arraignment is scheduled for July 11.

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/456293.html

According to Sawyer, who cited the National Crime Information Center, Salinas had several aliases, a felony drug conviction in California, and had been arrested several times for illegal entry into the U.S. and deported to Mexico.

Another one of those ones we should include in a blanket amnesty.

Want-a-bet he's Illegal ? I'ld say "YES"

Why was any bail set at all? There should be an ICE hold put on him

According to Sawyer, who cited the National Crime Information Center, Salinas had several aliases, a felony drug conviction in California, and had been arrested several times for illegal entry into the U.S. and deported to Mexico.

Typical illegal alien. He had SEVERAL ALIASES, a FELONY drug conviction, and had been ARRESTED SEVERAL TIMES FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY and DEPORTED. BUT THIS TIME THERE IS A NEW CHARGE- RAPE.

HOW MANY CHANCES DOES AN ILLEGAL ALIEN GET??? He should rot in prison and then get DEPORTED PERMANENTLY OUT OF THE USA!

Mother of woman raped by illegal immigrant speaks out

by JAKE WHITTENBERG / KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on May 31, 2010 at 4:18 PM

Updated today at 6:10 PM

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - The mother of a Bellingham woman, raped by an illegal immigrant, says her daughter's attack should never have happened.

KING 5 is not identifying the mother to protect her daughter.

"When I heard about what happened my brain didn't know how to react," she said. "This man is the lowest scum on the earth."

Hector Salinas, 38, was convicted of raping the 58-year-old disabled homeless woman in a Bellingham park in 2008. Salinas was in the
U.S. from Mexico illegally. KING 5 uncovered last week that Salinas has been convicted with several violent crimes in the past, including
Robbery, Assault, Theft and Selling illegal narcotics.

He served prison time in Washington and California. According to court records, Salinas has been deported at least five times.

Salinas was able to cross back into the U.S. to commit crimes year after year.

"It makes me sick that no one was able to stop this man," the victim's mother said. "Something is broken. How could no one see
what was happening."

Her daughter spent four days in the hospital after the violent rape.

"She is permanently injured physically, but she will never heal emotionally. We are all haunted by what happened," she said.

Hector Salinas will be sentenced June 8 under the state's "Three Strikes Your Out" law. He will likely spend the rest of his
life in prison, with no possibility of parole.

www.king5.com

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Illegal Immigrants Crime Spree in WA.

Posted By Dan Springer On June 1, 2010 @ 11:32 AM In Border Security, Crime, Foreign Policy, Mexico, Politics, U.S. | 79 Comments

One woman is dead and two others were raped recently and police say each crime was committed by a different illegal immigrant. One of the sexual assaults happened just hours before the Seattle city council passed an ordinance boycotting Arizona over its new immigration law.

Gregorio Luna Luna had a history of beating up his live-in girlfriend Griselda Ocampo Meza. He was also in the U.S. illegally. On May 1, Luna Luna was deported to Mexico. Three weeks later Meza was murdered in her apartment in a violent knife attack.

Franklin County prosecutors say Luna Luna slipped past the border again and killed Meza in front of their five year old son. He's in the county jail awaiting trial.

A suspected rapist in Edmonds, Washington has been deported at least 4 times according to Snohomish County prosecutors. Jose Lopez Madrigal has been charged with raping a woman next to a dumpster behind a Safeway store. A witness to the attack alerted police and Madrigal was taken into custody.

An illegal immigrant just convicted of his possible 3rd strike in Whatcom county- a rape of a homeless woman- has been deported to Mexico five times.

Washington State ranks 11th in the nation in the number of illegal immigrants with an estimated 150,000. They make up 2% of the state's population, but account for 4.5% of those in Washington prisons. In Franklin county, 14% of the jail bookings are illegal immigrants.

Currently, over half of the individuals on the Washington State Patrol's Most Wanted List are suspected illegal immigrants. 18 of the 26 on the list are Hispanic with no place of birth identified. Most are wanted for vehicular homicide and they have languished on the Most Wanted list for several years.

There are about 50,000 felony warrants currently issued in Washington State and according to a source in the U.S. Marshall's office between 30-40 percent are believed to be illegal immigrants.

We asked the State Patrol about the immigration status of the most wanted suspects and they told us they didn't know. Officials say that information is not important in trying to locate the individuals.

The U.S. Marshall's Service disagrees. Leaders of the region's fugitive task force say knowing immigration status can be very important to an investigation. In fact, the Marshall's have an office in Mexico to help with cross-border cases.

Last week, the city of Tacoma joined Seattle in admonishing Arizona for its immigration law. While the council did not go so far as passing a boycott, the ordinance does criticize Arizona for its stand against illegal immigration.


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One woman is dead and two others were raped recently and police say each crime was committed by a different illegal immigrant. One of the sexual assaults happened just hours before the Seattle city council passed an ordinance boycotting Arizona over its new immigration law.

Unbelievable!