Mexican authorities arrest man in border agent hit-and-run case
posted at 10:11 pm on January 23, 2008 by Bryan
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Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was killed by a hit-and-run driver who fled to Mexico on Saturday, January 19. Mexican authorities have arrested a man who says he was the driver. He also may have been a coyote, or human smuggler.
Jesus Navarro Montes, 22, was arrested in the northern state of Sonora on Wednesday, said a spokesman for Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s office who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Navarro was transported to the city of Mexicali in Baja California after he told Mexican authorities he ran over Aguilar on Saturday in a Hummer, the official said.
After the killing, Navarro drove to Mexicali and gave the Hummer to several accomplices for safekeeping. He then took another car to Ciudad Obregon, where he was arrested, the official said.
Navarro was detained about four years ago for human trafficking, and there was a warrant for his arrest in Mexicali for the same charge.
Aguilar was trying to stop a suspected smuggler who had illegally entered the country from Mexico when he was hit, according to Agent Michael Bernacke, a spokesman for the agency’s Yuma sector.
The incident happened in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area about 20 miles west of Yuma at about 9 a.m. Saturday.
Luis Aguilar was 32 and leaves behind two children. No word on whether Mexico will extradite Montes to the US for trial.
Update: Yup, it looks like Navarro is a coyote.
Navarro had previously been detained and jailed for smuggling 10 undocumented migrants into the U.S., and there was a warrant for his arrest in Mexicali for human trafficking, the statement said.
Later Wednesday, the Baja California section of the Attorney General’s office said it found materials for manufacturing U.S. immigration documents after searching three Mexicali homes based on information from Navarro’s arrest. Prosecutors seized blank immigration documents, stamps with the U.S. government’s seal, border-crossing cards and temporary visas.
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they’re just doing jobs Americans won’t do…
Opinionnation on January 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Naturally, if Montes is extradited back to the US, he will not be eligible for the death penalty he so richly deserves.
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GT on January 23, 2008 at 10:17 PM
I see no reason why they wouldnt extradite him. It will look like they are cooperating with US authorities on border control, and the media will spin it and yet again nothing will get done. This example will be used in the coming months to show that the current system “works” and that no “evil border fence” is needed.
Round and Round we go.
muyoso on January 23, 2008 at 10:19 PM
I’m surprised Aguilar wasn’t fined for getting in the way of their truck… we already have two BP agents in jail for defending themselves
Opinionnation on January 23, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Capital punishment is legal in California and as a federal crime. Mexico, that “friendly” nation to our south is going to demand nothing more than a slap on the wrist for this bastard.
Personally, I think we need to put harsh restrictions on how money can be transferred to Mexico. It would go a long way in making this corrupt nation more cooperative in working toward real immigration reform and mutual support.
highhopes on January 23, 2008 at 10:28 PM
@ highhopes on January 23, 2008 at 10:28 PM
I am saying, if Mexico sees the bigger picture, they will sacrifice this one to keep allowing the millions in each year.
muyoso on January 23, 2008 at 10:30 PM
They were not arresting him, just giving him a ride to the presidental palace so he could recieve a medal for killing a gringo standing in the way of the reconqesta!
conservnut on January 23, 2008 at 10:37 PM
That’s not the way they roll. We are talking about a NATIONAL GOVERNMENT that publishes comic books teaching people how to avoid the border patrol and has no problem issuing “official” documents to illegals. The only thing that will change the dynamic is to cut off the billions of gringo dollars that flow into the Mexican economy from illegals supporting the folks back home.
highhopes on January 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Really! I imagine the Jorge Arbusto justice department will make his family pay for damages to the guys hummer.
conservnut on January 23, 2008 at 10:39 PM
muyoso on January 23, 2008 at 10:30 PMHighhopes has it right. We’ve got a situation here in North Carolina where an illegal alien murdered a person and then ran back home to Mexico. The DA has already said that they won’t push for the death penalty because otherwise Mexico won’t extradite. The best the victim’s family can hope for is that this guy get life without parole.
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GT on January 23, 2008 at 10:51 PM
It’s a good thing we’re set to nominate a Republican who will tackle the immigration issue so well. Just like our current President. The majority of Republicans sure have their priorities straight.
Sarcasm aside, I wonder what the recruitment rate for border agents is? It must be pretty low these days.
Grayson on January 23, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Good thing it’s not the job of a Senator to call the mother of two young children to tell her that their dad just got killed by a human trafficker.
Rank hath its privileges.
Deety on January 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Aguilar should have just shot at the hummer, the law considers it a deadly weapon. Of course Mexico would then claim the agent was just killing a mexican national.
sarc/off
limowilliam on January 23, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Why would the guy surrender? I ain’t buying it.
Buddahpundit on January 23, 2008 at 11:57 PM
This article says both vehicles were stolen in Ca. and they were found on fire on Sat. after they went back across the border.
atxcowgirl on January 24, 2008 at 12:27 AM
This guy will get some cheesy lawyer (courtesy of La Raza or LULAC), who will demand that the State produce the murder weapon; i.e. the Hummer. After the State fails to produce the murder weapon, (which by this time the vehicle in question has met the same fate as a Drug Snitch) the State will have to let him go for a lack of evidence.
If this guy spends any time in an American prison, I’d be shocked.
c3ichief on January 24, 2008 at 12:48 AM
As the following article indicates, we have much bigger problems with illegals than just hit-and-run:
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on January 24, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Dr. Charles, there’s many more a’comin. The Clintons, Brracko or McCain will not build a fence. Get used to longer lines in hospitals, as more close, and more over crowded schools, in addition to higher taxes to pay for free illegal immigrant benfits. How’s your spanish Doc?
countywolf on January 24, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Is life in prison really an option? A few days ago, I was watching a Fox News report on Cesar Laurean (that Mexican-born U.S. Marine who murdered the pregnant fellow Marine, Maria Lauterbach, burned her body in his backyard, then had a party). FNC reported that not only does the U.S.’ extradition treaty with Mexico rule out the death penalty, it also makes it very difficult to impose a life sentence on the criminal who is extradited from Mexico back to the U.S. (FNC didn’t say under what circumstances, if any, a life sentence would be permissible).
I don’t know what the maximum criminal sentence is in Mexico. In Canada, the most a criminal can get is 25 years.
AZCoyote on January 24, 2008 at 3:29 AM
Hmmm. Mexican officials arresting Mexicans who kill Americans on the US side of the border and American police in El Paso, TX, protecting Mexican officials on the US side of the border.
I’d almost say there’s a North American Union going on here.
BowHuntingTexas on January 24, 2008 at 7:21 AM
Hey, can we get Dana Jacobson to comment on this?
James on January 24, 2008 at 8:07 AM
What,I do not believe this story. Immigrants come here to find a better life, they are not criminals.
Another story created by the anti-Mexican bigots. Let’s wait until he is deported (and he won’t be because he is innocent, and Mexico does not export innocent people) and goes through due process, before convicting him.
After all, he has 6 sisteres, 7 brothers, a sick and dying mom, his dad was killed by rogue American drug agents years ago. He has been trying to find a way to bring people in to America, so they do not have to suffer the way America has made him and his family suffer for all these years.
Just thought I would clear this up, there are always
twothreemultiple sides to a story written by our liberal press.right2bright on January 24, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Well, that would be how some people with brains would think…but why sacrifice anyone, when you can get what you want without the sacrifice?
right2bright on January 24, 2008 at 8:56 AM
R2B, I do appreciate your sensitivity and fairness, but i do not feel sorry for him. America has made his “people” suffer, so it’s his job to bring in more?
This is not the answer. No one should “bring” anyone anywhere. Follow the legal procedure to come here legally on your own.
flipflopper on January 24, 2008 at 9:19 AM
Thanks Johnny Sutton. All of the perfumes of Arabia will not erase the scent of blood on your hands.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on January 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM
Maybe, NC wouldn’t have that problem if NC didn’t hand out driver’s license like Gideons hand out Bibles.
thuja on January 24, 2008 at 10:26 AM
After this Mexican steered directly at Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar, not steering to avoid him but straight at him to hit and kill him, Montes drove straight back into Mexico.
Why ???Because there is NO FENCE. NONE AT ALL. He drove across dirt, maybe even a damn road to get away.
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I don’t think a virtual fence or 100 stealthy aircraft with digital video or 1000 cameras on poles could have stopped this crime.
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WE NEED A FENCE ALONG THE ENTIRE BORDER.
A REAL DUAL LAYER (minimum) FENCE.
shooter on January 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM
I cannot express the amount of anger I feel right now at the officials in the Mexican government. Their “extradition treaties” are an outrage, and their aiding and abetting the illegals is terrible.
My prayers and sympathies go out to the family of this slain border patrol agent. May he rest in peace.
Jodella on January 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM
BowHuntingTexas…Shhhhhhh, you’re not supposed to talk about it.
Did ya hear about the Mexican ‘officials’ coming to Arizona, recently, telling the gov’t there not to crack down on employers who hire illegal aliens because, (brace yourselves), the infra-structure in Mexico can’t handle the influx of their own citizens! Imagine that! The chutzpah of these people! They act like there really IS a NAU! S/off.
Christine on January 24, 2008 at 3:19 PM
No, they are in jail for lying about what they did and covering it up. Don’t get me wrong, I believe they were justified in shooting him and should NOT be in jail for that. What they should have gotten was whatever sentence a police officer who lied about his actions while preventing a crime would get. I am ALL for a fence, deportation, stoppage of ALL benefits (that you and I and every other American pay for) NO MORE ANCHOR BABIES, no chain migration, harsher sentences for those caught committing a crime, no stupid half-assed ‘path to citizenship’ for those who are here illegally, and every other solution to this problem. What I am not for is two BPAs who have the potential to undermine what all the others are doing. Had they not lied about their actions, would the piece of dirt they arrested actually be in jail?
LickyLicky on January 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM
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