WASHINGTON ( Former Homeland Security Agents Indicted for Role in Records Falsification Scheme )

Former Homeland Security Agents Indicted for Role in Records Falsification Scheme

WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) special agent in charge and another special agent were indicted in the Southern District of Texas for their roles in a scheme to falsify records and to obstruct an internal field office inspection, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez of the FBI San Antonio Field Office.

The indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Brownsville, Texas, charges Eugenio Pedraza, 49, of McAllen, Texas, with six counts of falsification of records in federal investigations, five counts of obstructing an agency proceeding, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of conspiracy. The indictment also charges Marco Rodriguez, 40, of Mission, Texas, with two counts of falsification of records in federal investigations, two counts of obstructing an agency proceeding, and one count of conspiracy.

DHS-OIG is the principal component within DHS with the responsibility to investigate alleged criminal activity by DHS employees, including corruption affecting the integrity of U.S. borders.

According to the indictment, in September 2011, DHS-OIG conducted an internal inspection of its McAllen Field Office to evaluate whether its internal investigative standards and policies were being followed. At that time, Pedraza was the special agent in charge of the McAllen Field Office, and Rodriguez was a special agent stationed there. According to the indictment, in anticipation of the inspection, Pedraza allegedly directed Rodriguez and other DHS-OIG employees to engage in a scheme to falsify documents in open criminal investigative case files, including numerous investigations in which DHS employees were suspected of participating in the unlawful smuggling of undocumented aliens and/or narcotics into the United States.

More specifically, the indictment charges that at Pedraza’s direction, DHS-OIG employees allegedly created and placed into these investigative files backdated memoranda of activity that falsely reflected investigative activity by agents that had not occurred; backdated case review worksheets that falsely reflected supervisory case reviews that Pedraza had not conducted with his subordinate agents; and backdated, unsent letters that were signed by Pedraza and purported to inform the FBI of the opening of a DHS-OIG investigation.

According to the indictment, the scheme’s purpose was to conceal severe lapses in DHS-OIG’s investigative standards from individuals conducting an internal field office inspection. The scheme was allegedly devised to conceal Pedraza’s failure to ensure that investigations were being conducted promptly and thoroughly, his failure to provide his subordinates with adequate training and supervision, and his failure to ensure that the FBI was being timely notified of DHS-OIG’s investigations.

The indictment also charges Pedraza with allegedly directing two DHS-OIG employees to falsify memoranda of activity on additional occasions and with obstructing justice by removing the falsified supervisory case review sheets that he had created from DHS-OIG files after becoming aware of the FBI and grand jury investigation into his conduct.

In a related case, on January 17, 2013, Wayne Ball, a former DHS-OIG special agent, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas before U.S. District Judge Randy Crane to one count of a multi-object conspiracy to falsify records in federal investigations and to obstruct an agency proceeding for his participation in the scheme. Ball is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31, 2013.

The charge of falsification of records in federal investigations carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The charge of obstructing an agency proceeding carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. The charge of obstruction of justice carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The charge of conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Each of these charges carry a maximum fine of $250,000.

An indictment is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Eric L. Gibson and Timothy J. Kelly of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section. The case is being investigated by agents of the FBI, San Antonio Division.

ICE Deported ( Mexican Fugitive in Indiana Wanted for Cold blooded Murder )

ICE Deported Mexican Fugitive in Indiana Wanted for Aggravated Homicide

INDIANAPOLIS – A Mexican national unlawfully in the Unites States, who is a convicted cocaine dealer, was deported last Friday to Mexico where he faces charges of aggravated homicide for shooting a woman to death.

This deportation was conducted by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Chicago.

Efrain Rivera-Rico, 32, was deported via an ICE AIR Operations charter flight May 10 and turned over to the Mexican authorities at the Brownsville Port of Entry in Texas. The Attorney General for the Mexican State of Michoacan issued an arrest warrant for Rivera-Rico May 11, 2001, in connection with the March 2001 shooting death of a female passenger in a car he was driving.

According to the arrest warrant, on March 29, 2001, Rivera-Rico was driving a car with three passengers on the Patzcuaro-Tingambato Highway in the State of Michoacan. When a female passenger complained she was feeling ill, Rivera-Rico allegedly pulled off the road, took out a .38-caliber handgun, and shot Marce Judith Martinez-Camacho in the head. Rivera-Rico and another male passenger then allegedly removed the victim from the car, dragged her into a ditch, fired additional shots, and drove away leaving the body by the side of the highway.

Rivera-Rico entered the United States illegally at an unknown date and was residing in Seymour, Ind. On Oct. 5, 2009, Rivera-Rico was convicted of dealing cocaine in Jackson County, Indiana and sentenced to nine years in prison. ERO officers encountered Rivera-Riva at the Jackson County State Jail in February 2010 and placed a detainer on him to ensure that he would be turned over to ERO for deportation upon his release from prison.

Pursuant to the detainer, Rivera-Rico was released from Indiana Department of Corrections and turned over to ERO on April 2. In March, ICE was notified of the outstanding arrest warrant in Mexico by another federal law enforcement agency. As an illegal alien and aggravated felon, Rivera-Rico was ordered removed on April 11.

“Rivera-Rico thought he could evade justice and a possible prison sentence in Mexico by hiding in Indiana,” said Ricardo Wong, ERO Chicago field office director. “But the crimes he committed in Indiana for dealing drugs put him on our radar, and he now faces murder charges in Mexico. ICE officers help protect public safety by arresting and removing international fugitives who pose a threat to our communities.”

MEXICO ( Gunmen Attack Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec - The mayor was ambushed and shot )

Gunmen Attack Mayor in Southern Mexico
The mayor Luis Jimenez was ambushed by several armed subjects on Sunday night and is listed in serious condition with gunshot wounds, Milenio television reported

MEXICO CITY – The mayor of Santiago Amoltepec, a small town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, was ambushed by gunmen and shot over the weekend, media reports said Monday.

Luis Jimenez is listed in serious condition with gunshot wounds, Milenio television reported.

The mayor was ambushed by several armed subjects on Sunday night.

Jimenez was attacked while driving on a rural road in Santiago Amoltepec.

The mayor had received death threats recently over a land dispute in the town, Milenio said.

Jimenez was airlifted to Oaxaca city, where he is being treated at a hospital for his wounds.

Oaxaca’s Sierra Sur mountains, where Santiago Amoltepec is located, have long been known for violent land disputes among its Indian communities.

In March 2009, Santiago Amoltepec and neighboring Textitlan signed a treaty ending a 20-year land dispute that claimed more than 200 lives.

The inhabitants of both communities depend on agriculture for their survival, a fact that fueled the quarrel over a parcel of 200 hectares (494 acres) located between the settlements.

More than half the residents of Santiago Amoltepec and Textitlan speak an indigenous language.

Most of Mexico’s roughly 11 million Indians – representing just over 10 percent of the country’s population – are concentrated in southern states such as Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chiapas and Guerrero.

Sixteen of Mexico’s 62 surviving indigenous languages are spoken in Oaxaca. EFE

Syria ( Insurgent Eats the Heart of Syrian Soldier - Are you Kidding Me ) Human Rights ?

The following picture shows a man that cut out the heart from a corpse, then taking a bite out of it.

The man, believed to be Abu Sakkar, the well-known founder of Homs’ Farouq Brigade – standing over the uniformed corpse in a ditch while ranting against President Bashar al Assad.Using a knife, the man hacks open the torso and removes two organs before holding them up to the camera and declaring: ‘I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog.’ He then raises one to his mouth and takes a bite.

 

Once again " I will not play the video " the man removes the heart from the dead soldier and takes a bite ? ( Are you kidding me ) On Youtube ?

Miami Beach ( Father accused of tying 12 yr old son to laundry pole - For punishment )

 

GINA CHERELUS The Miami Herald

By GINA CHERELUS

gcherelus@MiamiHerald.com

A Miami Beach man was charged with aggravated child abuse after tying his son to a pole in front of their home near 71st Street for several hours, police said Monday.
Adolfo Guzman, 49, is being held at a Miami detention center, accused of using bicycle cable wires to tie his 12-year-old son to a concrete laundry pole by his ankle because the boy left home without permission.
Guzman left to go shopping shortly after, leaving the child tied up for a couple of hours, according to police.
Jehovah’s Witnesses going door to door noticed the tied-up child and notified police, Miami Beach spokesman Bobby Hernandez said.
Officers called in Miami Beach Fire Rescue to cut the boy free of the wire bicycle lock.
“This is a horrific crime. It is unbelievable that someone would do this to their child,” Hernandez said. “It’s wrong to leave a dog chained up, much less your own son.”
According to the police report, Guzman warned his son, after an earlier incident on Saturday where he wandered off, that if he left again, he would be tied up as a punishment.
The 12-year-old complained that the cables caused him pain in his ankles but no other injuries were reported.
Guzman is being held on $50,000 bond.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/13/3395258/father-accused-of-tying-son-to.html#storylink=cpy

Mexico Sinaloa ( Two Spanish Businessmen Murdered in Northwest Mexico -shot to death )

Two Spanish Businessmen Murdered in Northwest Mexico
Authorities said that the bullet-riddled bodies of the merchants were found inside a vehicle that was pushed into a canal in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa

CULIACAN, Mexico – The bullet-riddled bodies of two Spanish businessmen were found inside a vehicle that was pushed into a canal in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said.

Jose Montoya Lozada, 58, and Fernando Carmona Romero, 57, worked as merchants and had their residences in Spain, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office said.

Passersby spotted the vehicle in the Humaya canal around 8:40 a.m. Saturday and notified police, the AG’s office said.

The two men had their hands bound and had been placed on the back seat of the automobile.

The victims were reported missing on May 4, the AG’s office said.

The two men traveled frequently to the western city of Guadalajara, where they purchased clothing that they sold in several states, officials said.

The deputy attorney general in charge of the state’s central zone, Julio Cesar Romanillo, officers from several police departments and crime scene investigators went to the crime scene, the AG’s office said.

Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman.

The Sinaloa cartel, sometimes referred to by officials as the Pacific cartel, is the oldest drug cartel in Mexico and Guzman, considered extremely violent, is one of the most-wanted criminals in Mexico and the United States, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has offered a reward of $5 million for him.

The rival Los Zetas cartel has been trying to grab control of some areas in the state from the Sinaloa organization, which is also battling the Beltran Leyva organization.

The war on drugs launched by former President Felipe Calderon, who was in office from 2006 to 2012, left about 70,000 people dead, or an average of 32 per day, in Mexico, officials say.

Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, deployed thousands of soldiers and Federal Police officers across the country to fight drug cartels

Jordan ( Honor killing - Young boy 6 -saw father kill mother- He said she deserved it ) See Video

Honor killing, 6 year old boy saw his mother being killed by his father . The boy explains in the video she deserved it ( for cheating ). The aunt also said 'she had it coming'!