Teen Rapist Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison
(Hamilton, Ohio - October 8, 2010)
HAMILTON -- A teen convicted of assaulting and raping a neighbor was sentenced Friday morning to 28 years in prison.
Alex Ramirez was 14 when he beat, robbed and raped a 64-year-old woman who lived near his home.
Ramirez, standing trial as an adult, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of the assault in August...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Police seek Northland Community Council's help in stemming heroin sales
(Columbus, Ohio - October 6, 2010)
Heroin deals are going down daily in quiet Northland neighborhoods.
Residents probably barely notice a thing.
A Mexican drug cartel pushing cheap black tar heroin in the United States has hit upon a method of selling the drug that almost resembles a pizza delivery operation, according to Columbus Division of Police officers who spoke at last week's Northland Community Council meeting.
"Obviously we're up against something that's well funded, highly sophisticated," Officer Wesley R. "Wes" Hettinger told NCC members.
The cops were on hand to alert residents to what's been going on in subdivisions throughout the area that's in close proximity to state Route 161, busy Morse Road and Interstates 71 and 270.
And to ask for assistance.
"Spread the word," said Commander Larry Rod. "Get people involved. We need the community's help."
"These people are coming to your neighborhoods," Hettinger said. "They're doing their deals in your neighborhoods."
The sellers are driving nondescript cars, Toyotas or Hondas that blend in with the thousands of other foreign sedans on the streets and highways of central Ohio. The Hispanic men are neatly dressed and clean-cut, and might lead seemingly unremarkable lives in the very neighborhoods where they ply their illegal trade.
Often illegally in this country, they are paid $400 for a six-day work week by the Xalixco Cartel, which takes its name from a city in the Mexican state of Nayarit, an area that produces opium poppies from which the heroin is derived...
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(Columbus, Ohio - October 6, 2010)
Heroin deals are going down daily in quiet Northland neighborhoods.
Residents probably barely notice a thing.
A Mexican drug cartel pushing cheap black tar heroin in the United States has hit upon a method of selling the drug that almost resembles a pizza delivery operation, according to Columbus Division of Police officers who spoke at last week's Northland Community Council meeting.
"Obviously we're up against something that's well funded, highly sophisticated," Officer Wesley R. "Wes" Hettinger told NCC members.
The cops were on hand to alert residents to what's been going on in subdivisions throughout the area that's in close proximity to state Route 161, busy Morse Road and Interstates 71 and 270.
And to ask for assistance.
"Spread the word," said Commander Larry Rod. "Get people involved. We need the community's help."
"These people are coming to your neighborhoods," Hettinger said. "They're doing their deals in your neighborhoods."
The sellers are driving nondescript cars, Toyotas or Hondas that blend in with the thousands of other foreign sedans on the streets and highways of central Ohio. The Hispanic men are neatly dressed and clean-cut, and might lead seemingly unremarkable lives in the very neighborhoods where they ply their illegal trade.
Often illegally in this country, they are paid $400 for a six-day work week by the Xalixco Cartel, which takes its name from a city in the Mexican state of Nayarit, an area that produces opium poppies from which the heroin is derived...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Illegal immigrants nabbed after traffic accident: Brecksville Police Blotter
(Brecksville, Ohio - September 30, 2010)
IMMIGRATION VIOLATION, I-77: At 7:02 a.m. on Thursday, police reported a three car accident northbound on Interstate 77.
(Brecksville, Ohio - September 30, 2010)
IMMIGRATION VIOLATION, I-77: At 7:02 a.m. on Thursday, police reported a three car accident northbound on Interstate 77.
It was discovered the inhabitants of the vehicle that caused the accident were five illegal immigrants.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency was contacted and the men were taken into its custody.
Illegal immigrant found guilty of felony transport
Attempted traffic strop on turnpike led to arrest
(Toledo, Ohio - October 2, 2010)
An illegal Mexican immigrant has been found guilty of felony transport of another illegal alien.
Antonio Cervantes-Peralta, 21, of Puebla, Mexico, was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court in Toledo. He is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service until his Feb. 7 sentencing.
Cervantes-Peralta was charged for an April 25 incident that began when he failed to stop for a Border Patrol agent attempting a traffic stop on the Ohio Turnpike.
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Attempted traffic strop on turnpike led to arrest
(Toledo, Ohio - October 2, 2010)
An illegal Mexican immigrant has been found guilty of felony transport of another illegal alien.
Antonio Cervantes-Peralta, 21, of Puebla, Mexico, was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court in Toledo. He is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service until his Feb. 7 sentencing.
Cervantes-Peralta was charged for an April 25 incident that began when he failed to stop for a Border Patrol agent attempting a traffic stop on the Ohio Turnpike.
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NJ Sen. Robert Menendez introduces immigration reform bill
WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey has introduced a broad immigration reform bill that would put the nation’s approximately 11 million illegal immigrants on a path toward citizenship and enact other sweeping reforms.
The bill, introduced late Wednesday, calls for enhanced border security and tougher enforcement of laws banning employment of undocumented workers, and would make it easier for legal residents to bring family members to the U.S.
It’s highly unlikely Congress will consider the measure this year, and it has only a slim chance of passage...
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey has introduced a broad immigration reform bill that would put the nation’s approximately 11 million illegal immigrants on a path toward citizenship and enact other sweeping reforms.
The bill, introduced late Wednesday, calls for enhanced border security and tougher enforcement of laws banning employment of undocumented workers, and would make it easier for legal residents to bring family members to the U.S.
It’s highly unlikely Congress will consider the measure this year, and it has only a slim chance of passage...
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Obama hopes GOP will 'come to senses' on DREAM Act after Nov.
Accusing Republicans of killing the DREAM Act for political ends, President Obama this weekend vowed to renew the fight for passage after November's midterms.
Accusing Republicans of killing the DREAM Act for political ends, President Obama this weekend vowed to renew the fight for passage after November's midterms.
"My hope is that after the election maybe some of the Republicans who previously had supported these measures will come back and come to their senses and recognize that this is the right thing to do," Obama said Saturday in an interview with Univision, a Spanish-language station, from the White House Rose Garden. "And I’m going to push very hard to see if we can get it done."
The Senate last week shot down the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act by a vote of 56 to 43. Every Republican — as well as Arkansas Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor — opposed the measure...
Mexican Drug Cartels Operate In Tri-State
Cartels Establish Grow Operation In Rural Ohio
(Clinton County, Ohio - September 30, 2010)
The nation's drug war and Mexico's drug cartels are in our back yards, hidden in crops and hillsides throughout rural Ohio counties.
Cartels Establish Grow Operation In Rural Ohio
(Clinton County, Ohio - September 30, 2010)
The nation's drug war and Mexico's drug cartels are in our back yards, hidden in crops and hillsides throughout rural Ohio counties.
Agents from the state Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI) have found huge pot farms, which they've dubbed "megafarms," during routine summer marijuana eradication programs.
In the past three years, they've linked six of those megafarms to drug cartels, said Scott Duff, a special agent supervisor for the attorney general's narcotics division.
"We've seen an increase in some really, really large patches of marijuana that are generally controlled by Mexican drug cartels," Duff said.
Of those six, four of the farms are linked to Mexico...
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