Thread: Man Involved OR. Teen's Death To Be Deported

Man Involved OR Teen's Death To Be Deported

POSTED: 4:18 pm PST February 3, 2012
UPDATED: 5:08 pm PST February 3, 2012

SEATTLE -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say they are deporting a 27-year-old Mexican national who was involved in a drug-fueled orgy that ended with the strangling death of a teenager in Oregon City five years ago.

ICE spokesman Andrew Munoz says Gilberto Javier Arellano-Gamboa has been handed over to the federal agency in Tacoma after serving a state prison sentence of more than four years for attempted first-degree sexual abuse.

Arellano-Gamboa and his cousin Alejandro Emeterio Rivera-Gamboa were arrested for the death of 15-year-old Dani Countryman of Texas in an Oregon City apartment in 2007.

Rivera-Gamboa eventually pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Four others were also convicted of lesser crimes.

Countryman's death was a flash point in the debate over illegal immigration, leading Clackamas County to adopt new rules around reporting illegal immigrants with criminal records to federal authorities.

Man Involved OR Teen's Death To Be Deported - Oregon - Northwest News Story - KTVZ Bend

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