TUCSON Az ( 64 Immigrants die in 8 months trying to cross the Hot Arizona Border ) Rape and Robbery

Fewer Immigrants Dying on Arizona Border
From Oct. 1 through May 1, 64 migrants died while trying to sneak across the border into the United States, down from 101 during the same period of fiscal 2012, according to official figures

TUCSON, Arizona – Deaths of undocumented immigrants in the Arizona desert are down 36 percent in the 2013 fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

From Oct. 1 through May 1, 64 migrants died while trying to sneak across the border into the United States, down from 101 during the same period of fiscal 2012, according to official figures.

“The deaths have gone down, but as temperatures begin to rise in the desert, the dangers increase,” Andres Adame, spokesman for the Border Patrol Tucson Sector, told Efe.

The most recent fatality was last Saturday.

Border Patrol agents responded to a call about someone’s being lost in the desert near the village of Tres Puntos. When they reached the scene, they found one migrant alive and another, dead.

The survivor told the agents that the other man had fallen ill and been abandoned by the “coyote” they paid to guide them across the desert.

Agents in the Tucson Sector, which includes 90 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, have carried out 203 successful rescues in the desert so far in fiscal 2013, 27 more than at the same point in fiscal 2012, when the number of rescues reached a record 634.

“That tells us this summer could be terrible for the migrants,” Adame said.

Daytime temperatures in the Arizona desert are already hovering around 100 F.

Heat, however, is not the only danger.

“We have seen an increase in the number of cases of robbery, of women raped,” Adame said, attributing the phenomenon to a takeover of migrant smuggling by organized crime.

Formerly, he said, most “coyotes” were men and women who lived in the border region.

“The dad, the mom and the kids dedicated themselves to the business of bringing immigrants across. Everybody was involved, it was a family business. But later we see a change when the drug cartels got involved,” Adame said.

For the cartels, migrants are merchandise, not human beings, he said.

Instead of men “making a little money for their families,” the coyotes are now “criminals who make a lot of money,” Adame said. EFE

TUCSON Az ( 3rd Bee Attack this month - one male taken to hospital )

Bee attack stings 3, sends 1 to the hospital

Posted: May 16, 2013 3:39 PM  West  El puente ln.

 

Editor's note: the following is a release from Tucson Police. Three people were stung by bees this morning with one male patient being transported to a local hospital in stable condition. Of the three people involved, one was stung once and the other two were stung an estimated ten to twenty times. Tucson Fire crews responded after a worker at a local business called 911 to report that someone had been attacked by bees. Units arrived dressed in protective gear and found the swarm still in the area. Crews were notified that there was still someone hiding under a blanket near the swarm and made their way through the bees to remove the individual. Fire crews advised all businesses in the area to stay inside while they searched for the hive. Firefighters located the hive in an abandoned shed on an open lot. Due to the fact that life safety was an issue the bees were exterminated with foam. Tucson Fire recommends that citizens contact a professional bee service to remove all non-aggressive hives

KABUL ( Dozen Die in Suicide Attack in Afghanistan - 2 U.S soldiers and 4- DynCorp security killed)

Dozen Die in Suicide Attack in Afghanistan

KABUL – Six NATO personnel were among at least a dozen people killed Thursday in a suicide attack targeting a military convoy in the Afghan capital, officials said.

Two uniformed military personnel and four civilian advisers died, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said.

ISAF did not specify the nationalities of the dead, but the Pentagon and Virginia-based DynCorp International independently identified the NATO fatalities as two U.S. soldiers and four security contractors.

The attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into the convoy, Kabul provincial police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi said.

He said the dead include two Afghan children, while around 30 other people were injured and a dozen homes damaged by the powerful explosion.

Hizb-e-Islami, a Muslim fundamentalist faction led by Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said it was behind the blast.

“We are responsible for this attack,” Hizb-e-Islam spokesman Zubai Seddiqi told Efe.

The bulk of the ISAF troops are due to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. EFE

San Diego County ( Blogger searches for - Foster mother- Edna Jeffrey ) 1960

A blogger who was given up for adoption through San Diego County Adoptions wishes to thank a woman who took care of him ( for four months ) when he was in a foster home.

The blogger ( Joe Liska) said he was four days old in the picture and knows little about his foster mother " Edna Jeffrey" from the San Diego area in 1960. Joe believes she is probably no longer alive but would like to thank her family for everything she did.It takes a special person to be a  foster parent.

 

If you have any info on this case or are related to "Edna Jeffrey " you can contact this blogger.

New Mexico ( Mother Chases down Man who abducted her daughter - She crashes into him ) Woo Hoo

Mom chases, crashes into child abductor

HOUSTON ( Dominican Arrested at Houston Airport for Allegedly Importing Cocaine by Ingesting Pellets )

HOUSTON – A citizen of the Dominican Republic was arrested at the airport last Saturday for allegedly importing cocaine by ingesting 53 pellets of the drug, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas.

The investigation leading to these charges was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Mikkail Antonio Nolasco Jimenez, 27, was arrested at Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) after it was determined he had allegedly ingested 53 pellets containing cocaine.

The criminal complaint filed Tuesday alleges that on May 11 Jimenez arrived aboard a flight from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago bound for New York. HSI special agents became suspicious when Jimenez provided inconsistent statements. Upon further investigation, they discovered anomalies in his body resembling pellets believed to contain a controlled substance. Jimenez was then transported and admitted to an area hospital.

Jimenez allegedly expelled a total of 53 pellets, containing a substance that field tested positive for cocaine, according to the complaint.

Jimenez made his initial appearance on Tuesday before U.S Magistrate Judge Stephen William Smith, at which time he was ordered into custody pending a Thursday detention hearing.

Upon conviction, Jimenez faces a mandatory minimum of five and up to 40 years in prison each for importing cocaine, and conspiracy to import cocaine.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stuart A. Burns, Southern District of Texas, is prosecuting the case.

A criminal complaint is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due process of law.

MOSCOW ( Russian Climber Alexei Bolotov Dies on Mt. Everest -Rope broke )

Russian Climber Alexei Bolotov Dies on Mt. Everest

MOSCOW – Russian mountain climber Alexei Bolotov died Wednesday in a fall on Mt. Everest as he was trying to open a new route to the summit on the peak’s southwestern face, the Russian Federation of Alpinism reported.

The climber fell off the side of the mountain when his safety rope broke at an altitude of 5,600 meters (18,200 feet), federation spokesperson Anna Stolbova told the Interfax news agency.

“Bolotov, along with another well-known alpinist from Kazakhstan, Denis Urubko, were trying to open a new route up the center of the southwestern wall of Everest. Nobody had ever done that route before,” Stolbova said.

Urubko sent a message to the Web page mountain.ru regarding his companion’s accident, saying: “I don’t know how to write this. Alexei Bolotov was making a descent on a rope. The rope broke after fraying against a sharp rock outcropping. Bolotov fell ... some 300 meters (975 feet). His death was instantaneous.”

The 50-year-old Russian climber was one of the best-known figures in the world of mountaineering after receiving two Piolet d’Or awards, the risky sport’s highest international honor awarded by a French panel since 1991.

He won his first Piolet d’Or for being the first to climb the western face of Makalu in 1998 and the second for first climbing the north face of Jannu in 2004.

Married and with two children, Bolotov had climbed 11 of the world’s highest 14 peaks, all of them over 8,000 meters (26,000 feet) in height.

He participated, along with Urubko, in the fruitless attempt to rescue Iñaki Ochoa de Olza on Annapurna in May 2008, after the Spanish climber fell ill at 7,400 meters (24,050 feet) and then died of exhaustion five days later. EFE