TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
Deputies are asking for the public's help identifying a man who stole from a Safeway and sprayed an employee with pepper spray.
It happened on New Year's Eve just after 9:15 p.m. at the Safeway near Oracle and Ina.
According to the Pima County sheriff's department, the shoplifter put two vodka gift boxes with vodka and shot glasses, and other bottles of alcohol from a display, into a blue gift bag. After the suspect left the store, the Safeway's loss prevention officer followed him outside.
When the officer demanded he hand over the stolen items, the suspect sprayed him in the eyes with pepper spray.
The suspect was last seen walking towards Beyond Bread. Watch the surveillance video attached to this story to see if you recognize the shoplifter
Posted: Jan 4, 2013 5:07 PM by Lupita Murillo Updated: Jan 4, 2013 5:18 PM
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TUCSON- A woman who won at the casino ended up losing big time when Border Patrol agents were called and she was deported to Mexico.
Mirna Valenzuela went to claim her $1,200 jack pot on December 2nd at Casino del Sol. She gave the casino an Arizona's driver license.
She was told to come back the next day with her Mexican passport. She did, and she took her daughter with her. After waiting for some time, Border Patrol Agents showed up and took them into custody.
The daughter was eventually released because of the Obama Dream Act, but mom is back in Mexico.
Valenzuela, 43, was a casino club card carrier. She received perks and other benefits for being a regular guest.
Her daughter tells News 4 she had won money in the past, and she'd always given the casino her driver's license as her proof of ID. It's the same driver's license that got her the casino club card.
Zamira Osorio the daughter says, "It's never happened before so we're surprised about the whole situation."
Now, the single mother of four is unable to collect the cash and is in Mexico without her children.
"My family and I feel devastated about it."
Wendell Long is the CEO of Casino Del Sol, he says "We think it's a very unfortunate incident. We hate to see anyone suffer any pain or grief." He adds, "We do not care if they are in the country legally or illegally. That's not what we do. We're here to provide great entertainment." Long says, "If she had shown us her Mexican passport her valid Mexican passport there wouldn't have been any problem at all."
Osorio admits her mom has been deported in the past. But says she's a good person who came here to give Zamira a better life that was 20 years ago. "I didn't ask to come to this country illegal that's just the way my parents brought me here. It's not something that I chose."
She says she is thankful for the Dream Act because if hadn't been for that she would have been deported as well. "That would have been a very bad situation for my children and brothers and sister."
News 4 contacted the Border Patrol and Pascua Yaqui police.
Border Patrol would only confirm, "Agents determined the mother was previously deported from the U.S. in 2008 for illegal entry. Her prior removal order was reinstated and she was returned to Mexico through the Nogales Port of Entry on Dec. 4."
Pascua Yaqui police referred questions to the Attorney General's office. As of news time that office had not returned calls.
Juan Carlos Eguino Orduno
(Courtesy U.S. Border Patro)
U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a
convicted murderer trying to illegally enter the United States on a snowy
Thursday in El Paso.
Officials said agents arrested Juan Carlos Eguino Orduno, 40, during a failed
attempt to cross the border near Downtown El Paso.
An identification system check found that Eguino had served time in prison
after being convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in Santa Fe,
officials said.
In a separate case Thursday, Border Patrol agents seized 25 pounds of
methamphetamine found hidden in a vehicle stopped at the Interstate 10
checkpoint near Las Cruces, officials said. The vehicle's driver was arrested.
The driver's name was not released.
Thursday, January 3, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterChivis
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Authorities report that a group of gunmen attacked a rehabilitation center in the Coahuila city of Torreón, leaving one dead and three injured.
The Laguna delegation of the Attorney General of the State said that about 7:45 am on Monday, a group of armed men burst into “Oasis” the rehabilitation center for addiction, located on Rodríguez Triana Boulevard, in the colonia “las Julitetas”.
The gunmen opened fire on the patients, subsequently leaving one dead, an unidentified person, about 30 years old, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in his chest. The three injured were identified with names: Jose Mena Eleno Alvarado, 58, who is treated at a local hospital for gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest, Carlos Alvarado Mena, 39, injured by a bullet in the knee and Pedro Rivas Palacios, 31, who was wounded in the left side of the torso..
Just last June, gunmen killed eleven people in the Torreón center called "“Tu Vida Sobre La Roca AC”.
Kim Chang-geun holds a knife after he stabbed himself in the stomach during a rally at Gimpo Airport in Seoul on Friday.REUTERS
SEOUL —
A member of a South Korean anti-Japan civic group stabbed himself in the stomach during a rally at Gimpo Airport in Seoul on Friday. Kim Chang-geun, 57, bleeding from the stomach, was led away by police.
The rally was held to denounce Japan’s conservative new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and demand an official apology for Japan’s war crimes during World War II. The group was at the airport to protest the arrival of Abe’s special envoy, veteran lawmaker and former finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, who will meet South Korea’s President-elect Park Geun-hye later in the day.
“As both Japan and South Korea have new governments, I would like to play the role of mediator so that this year can be a good one for the two countries,” Nukaga told reporters at the airport.
“Prime Minister Abe believes that Japan-South Korea relations need to be solid for the stability of East Asia,” he said. “I want to convey that message.”
Abe, who took office late December, had planned to send the envoy earlier but the dispatch was delayed due to Park’s tight schedule, according to local media.
The territorial row flared last year following a surprise visit by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to the Dokdo islands, known by Japan as Takeshima.
It quickly degenerated into a familiar confrontation over attitudes to shared history, with Seoul accusing its former colonial ruler Tokyo of not being contrite enough for its wartime behavior.
Tokyo hopes the dispatch will help lead to a fresh start under the countries’ new leaders, and as North Korea’s successful rocket launch last month renews regional security concerns.
In possession of 74,917 pills In possession of 20,050 ampullas of heroin
Iran Human Rights, January 3: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Yasouj (southern Iran) yesterday January 2.
According to the Iranian state media, the prisoner who was not identified by name, was convicted of possession and trafficking of 20050 ampullas containing heroin and 74917 psychotropic pills.
Last week five prisoners were hanged publiclyin the city of Yasouj.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed a key Taliban commander, his deputy and eight others in northwest Pakistan, intelligence sources and tribal leaders said Thursday, deaths that could substantially alter the power balance in the Taliban heartland of Waziristan.
Maulvi Nazir Wazir, also known as Mullah Nazir, was killed on Wednesday night when missiles struck a mud house in South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, intelligence sources and residents said.
He had survived at least one previous drone attack and was wounded weeks earlier in a bomb attack believed to have been launched by Taliban rivals.
His key commanders and his deputy, Ratta Khan, were also killed in the attack at Angoor Adda, near the provincial capital of Wana, sources said.
Nazir had expelled foreign militants from his area, favored attacking American forces in Afghanistan and had signed non-aggression pacts with the Pakistani military in 2007 in 2009. That put him at odds with some other Pakistan Taliban commanders, but earned him a reputation as a "good" Taliban among some in the Pakistan military.
Lone wolf " Hits Mark "
Nazir's successor was announced in front of a crowd of thousands at his funeral, a witness said. People will be watching closely to see if fellow Wazir tribesman Salahud Din Ayubi continues with Nazir's policies.
The military has a large base in Wana, where Nazir and his men were based. Nazir presided over an uneasy peace between the militants and the army there, but the truce was endangered by the military's alliance with the United States and drone strikes, a military officer said recently.
"The (drone) program is making things very difficult for us. Nazir is the sole remaining major militant leader willing to be an ally," he said.
"If he decides to side with (Pakistan Taliban leader) Hakimullah, thousands of fighters will come to the frontlines against the Pakistani military. It is in our interest to keep him neutral, if not on our side, because then we can direct our resources against anti-state militants with much greater efficiency."
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