Thread: Newark killings arrest

Does anyone know if this cretin Jose Carranza--with three previous arrests and an upcoming trial--is an illegal? He and a 15 yr. old companion have been charged with the murders of the young students, and more arrests are expected. He was identified from a photo by the sole survivor of the shootings.

The mayor delivered his press conference about the arrests in English and Spanish.

Originally Posted by Saki

Does anyone know if this cretin Jose Carranza, who has three previous arrests and is awaiting trial, an illegal? He and a 15 yr. old companion have been charged with the murders of the young students, and more arrests are expected. He was identified from a photo by the sole survivor of the shootings.

I was just watching the press conference on FOX. On the bottom of the screen it said the 15 yr old was a U.S. citizen but I did not hear about Jose. Guess we will have to wait and see. Also during the press conference, the Newark mayor took questions in and spoke in Spanish. Sorry but all that should be done in English-no other languages.

This is an absolutely disgusting crime.

Originally Posted by Nicole

I was just watching the press conference on FOX. On the bottom of the screen it said the 15 yr old was a U.S. citizen but I did not hear about Jose. Guess we will have to wait and see. Also during the press conference, the Newark mayor took questions in and spoke in Spanish. Sorry but all that should be done in English-no other languages.

This is an absolutely disgusting crime.

I had just edited my post to include a comment about the Spanish. I totally agree with you---it should have been done in English only. I noticed the mayor talking about this being a "defining moment" for Newark in terms of crime management. I was thinking "lots of luck". Newark is so overrun with gangs and other criminals it's like a war zone.

I was wondering if Jose is an illegal because the media seems to be skirting the issue.

God bless the families of these young people whose lives were cut short.

MORE BLOOD ON BUSH'S HANDS!!
Him and his open border policy, makes me want to puke.

I knew it had to be something like that. When I first heard the story I knew whether legal or illegal it was latin gang type of behavior. Darn animals.....makes me sick.......and they want this to be the future of this country?

Not a single news network will state whether or not he is illegal -- figures. We don't want to provide the whole truth OR incite any racial insinuations -- might offend too many.

They should if he is one. They are also looking for additional suspects.

I heard once that they were not legal...but nothing since then...they seem to be avoiding that little bit of information. Wonder why?

More murders across America, and our major media will not tell us the truth about who these murderers are, and if they are Americans, legal immigrants, or...illegal aliens. The spin goes on, anyone getting dizzy yet?

What makes this sad, all the more, is that these were young people attempting to do things the right way in life and become educated, stay out of trouble and move forward from potentially rough lives or from growing up in rough neighborhoods. Young promising lives wasted, simply to satisfy someones perverse ego when they felt they were being "dissed".

It seems lately, all across America, we are hearing more and more young American lives being taken at the hands of these brutal gang tactics and by illegal aliens, or both combined.

I pray God will help us to eliminate this scurge from our nation so we can live in some semblence of peace again.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf ... xml&coll=1

To his family, an innocent man
Friday, August 10, 2007
BY WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT AND BRIAN DONOHUE
Star-Ledger Staff
Ten months ago he was charged with assaulting bar patrons with a broken bottle and a chair.

Last month, a 31-count indictment accused him of raping a little girl repeatedly over a four-year period and threatening to kill her family.


Yet for all this, police say, Jose Carranza managed to make bail and stay on the streets long enough to commit the crime that has sent shock waves through the region -- the executions of three college students in a Newark schoolyard Saturday.

"This is not an individual who should be loose on the streets," Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said. "He needs to be locked away."

But while police see him as a ruthless killer, neighbors described Carranza as a doting father who was often seen walking with his daughter on the street in the working-class neighborhood in Orange.

Carranza's three-story house on Lakeside Avenue is clad in light-green aluminum siding, its front yard littered with children's toys and lawn gnomes. In a home with Peruvians on the first floor and Salvadorans on the second, 10 American flags were stuck in the front lawn.

Carranza lives five doors down from his sister, Diana, who said he worked in demolition, but who had no other details about his employment.

"He works, he's an honest, quiet person," the sister said as she stood on the steps of her home. The sister said he lived with his wife, his infant daughter, his sister, her two children and his wife's sister.

A brother, Jesus Larchire, said the family is from northern Peru, but he declined to comment about Carranza's immigration status.

Marilyn Ward, who lives on the other side of Diana Carranza's house on Lakeside Avenue, said she was shocked when she heard Jose Carranza had been charged with the schoolyard murders.
"I just can't comprehend that," Ward said. "The man is nothing like that. He's never shown that character at all."

Ward said Carranza even mowed her lawn and helped her carry heavy furniture. She said he was part of a tight-knit family: "They were very family-oriented." She said she would often go to birthday parties for his many nieces and nephews in his home or his sister's house a few doors down.



The image of Carranza as a family man and solid neighbor contrasts with the picture painted by his arrest record.

Carranza, 28, was charged in January with committing a range of sex acts with the girl over a four-year period in Newark, beginning when she was 5. He is also accused of threatening to kill her and her family in what authorities said was an attempt at witness intimidation, according to court records.

He posted $150,000 bail in February and was released from the Essex County Jail.

Last month, the sexual assault charges against Carranza resulted in a 31-count indictment that accuses him of aggravated sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and other crimes.

He is accused of having sexual relations with the child, now 9, between 2003 and this year, according to court records. He is charged under a statute reserved for people who assault children under their care, but prosecutors would not comment on his relationship to the child. He is awaiting trial before Superior Court Judge Thomas Vena.

The same judge is also handling the assault charges, in which Carranza and Persy Leyva, 28, were charged on Oct. 21, 2006, with assaulting four patrons with a broken bottle and a chair at Huguito's, a small Peruvian restaurant and bar at White Street and Ashland Avenue in West Orange, according to court records. He was released from jail after posting $50,000 bail.

Carranza was charged in the assault case under an alias, Jose Larchire.

Fontoura said his staff checked Carranza's Social Security number yesterday and found it was bogus.


SPEAKING UP FOR BROTHER

Felix Lopez-Montalvo, the attorney who is representing Carranza in all three cases, would not comment. But Carranza's sister, Diana, said her brother was at her home at the time of the killings and turned himself in because he was innocent.

"What would you do," the sister asked, "would you be on the run or would you turn yourself in?"

Larchire also said his brother is innocent.

Larchire said police came to the homes of several family members last night for questioning and took him into custody. After Larchire was released from police custody at 5 a.m., he was watching a Spanish-language television station with his family when they saw the news. Soon afterward, Carranza called to tell his mother he was turning himself in.

"My mother was worried, so he said, 'Listen, I don't have nothing to do with this,'" Larchire said. "He told my mother, 'Don't worry about it, there's something wrong here.'"

Larchire said that if Carranza was guilty, he would have fled the country.


If this article doesn't make your blood boil, nothing will