California illegal immigrant ‘cop-killer’ taken into custody, officials say
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The illegal immigrant fugitive wanted in the murder of a California police officer is in custody Friday after being on the run for more than two days, Fox News confirms.
Police arrested the man near Bakersfield, about 280 miles southeast of Newman, where Police Cpl. Ronil Singh was gunned down early Wednesday. The arrest was confirmed by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office and Kern County Sheriff's Office.
The news comes as the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department -- which has been handling the case -- says it will be holding a press conference at 3 p.m. ET Friday to discuss “significant developments in the Newman investigation.” The Kern County Sheriff's Office told Fox News it will hold its own press conference an hour later.
Details of the arrest were not immediately available, but the announcement of it came nearly a day after Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson made an emotional plea for the suspect to turn himself in.
“A coward took his life," Richardson said. “We need closure. His family needs closure."
The suspect, whose name has not yet been revealed, also may have connections to a violent Mexican-American street gang , according to an image circulating on social media confirmed as authentic by investigators early Friday.
The photo shows the alleged “cop-killer” posing in a tank-top shirt, with a metal chain necklace draped around his neck and a large flaming skull tattoo visible on his right arm. Underneath the tattoo is the word “$ur3no$,” which, according to police in Washington State, is Spanish for “southerners”.
“Sureños are a group of Mexican-American street gangs with origins in southern California (south of Bakersfield),” reads a profile on the group in a police gang recognition guide . “The gang has allegiance to the [California] prison gang, Mexican Mafia, aka “La Eme”.
The gang recently has been blamed for murders and human smuggling crimes along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said Thursday that police have possession of a truck believed to have been driven by the suspect in Singh’s killing, but authorities won’t release his identity until they are “100 percent certain we have the right name.”
The suspect was stopped by Singh for a DUI investigation before engaging in a gunfight with the officer, during which Singh tried to defend himself, Christianson said.
Singh was a native of Fiji and left behind a wife and 5-month-old son. The officer, who joined the force in the summer of 2011, was remembered fondly by the Newman police chief, who said Singh “truly loved what he did.”
“He came to this country with one purpose, and that was to serve this country,” Richardson said.
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What a beautiful family.
Darn! I was so hoping that he would resist violently when they caught up to him and that he would receive the 9mm of punishment he so richly deserves
I wonder how the supporters of Sancutary Laws sleep at night...
A preventable death is on your hands...
"In September 2017, the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, which would have given authorities the ability to take immigration enforcement action against suspected gang members even if they have not been convicted of a crime, passed the House along party lines but did not receive further Senate consideration."
Listen, I think that law should have passed but there you have it. Why partisan politics sucks. Because there was stuff that should have been passed under every administration but doesn't get passed because it's almost always drawn along party line.
Citizens commit crime, of course, and solving that problem has its own complications because one of the perks of being a citizen is they can't deport you no matter what you do.
But here is a tragedy that could have been prevented in the simplest of ways. Just keep the guy out of the country or, failing that, deport him when you catch him.
Our government could have done that. In fact, it's their responsibility to do that and they were empowered to do exactly that. But they chose not to.
I am not disagreeing there, Tacos. But my point is that there for every 1 like this, is literally over a 1,000 cops shot last year alone. So, really which is the bigger problem?
The implied message is that illegals are criminals, not that a criminal was illegal. Can you see the difference?
“Departments of Justice and Homeland Security Release Data on Incarcerated Aliens—94 Percent of All Confirmed Aliens in DOJ Custody Are Unlawfully Present
President Trump’s Executive Order on Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on data collection efforts. On Dec. 18, 2017, DOJ and DHS released the FY 2017 4th Quarter Alien Incarceration Report, complying with this order.[1] The report found that more than one-in-five of all persons in Bureau of Prisons custody were foreign born, and that 94 percent of confirmed aliens in custody were unlawfully present.”
“Recent crime analysis by both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Texas law enforcement authorities indicate that between June 2011 and March 2017, over 217,000 criminal immigrants were arrested and booked into Texas jails.
In researching the criminal careers of these defendants, it was revealed that they had jointly committed over nearly 600,000 criminal offenses. Their arrests included nearly 1,200 homicides; almost 69,000 assaults; 16,854 burglaries; 700 kidnappings; nearly 6,200 sexual assaults; 69,000 drug offenses; 8,700 weapons violations; over 3,800 robberies and over 45,000 obstructing police charges. In determining the status of these offenders in the U.S., it was confirmed by DHS that over 173,000 or 66 percent of these immigrant criminal defendants were in our country illegally at the times of their arrests.”
You know what I mean by criminals. I mean people who endanger our populous.
Crossing our border is not necessarily illegal. We don't require citizens of all countries to have visas to enter the country. I think that's something many people tend to forget - not all border crossings are illegal, and neither is applying for asylum.
Then people should limit their comments to discussions about crossing the border illegally. Too often, many appear to think that any border crossing, even with the intent of applying for asylum, is illegal. And then some get stirred up over "illegal immigrants" whose only "crime" was to cross the border, which isn't a crime in and of itself.
People don't become criminals when they cross our border.
I'm advocating for more precision with language. When somebody says that people become criminals when they cross the border, that's an issue. It doesn't take long to include the adverb "illegally". Imprecision and omissions are how people end up believing that asylum seekers are the same as illegal immigrants, and lump them all together.
It does when laziness leads one to call something illegal which isn't necessarily illegal, and stirs up public sentiment against "illegals" who, by applying for asylum or attempting to do so, aren't actually doing anything illegal at all.
This attitude of "anyone who comes across our southern border is here illegally" thing causes some to unfairly assume the worst about Latinos - that they're probably "illegal" just for being here. Many aren't. Or that they're criminals just for trying to cross the border. Also not true.
But nuance is lost on some.
Well said. No amount of liberal newspeak changes the fact that illegal entry is illegal.
It's also a crime to text in the car. If you get caught, are you a criminal? People break the law every day, and they are not considered criminals. When you call someone a criminal, you are implying that they have done something truly grievous. And while I am for border control, I also feel that those who cross illegally or come in past their visas are not criminals, but should be deported sans outstanding circumstances.
I am not saying that you don't need permission to stay here and I have said this over and over. It just seems to me that the focus on the southern border, while ignoring the rest of the other illegal immigration is wrong and our whole immigration system, sucks. It prevents arbitrarily, legal immigration, which also is part of the root cause of illegal immigration. Extreme vetting isn't putting a professional in a pool in the hope that their name gets drawn. That isn't vetting nor is it fair.
I am not sure who that comment was directed to Ceenkov, but it better not have been to me.
LFOD,
The report is about criminals. It is not about all the others who come here and pick veggies and paint homes, etc. Of course, if they are in prison, they are criminals and I am sure that the worst of the worst are going to get in trouble in the state of entry, which is mostly Texas and California. We are not in disagreement about that.
Everybody here who has ever gone just one mph over the speed limit (and I'm willing to bet that's about 100%), or didn't come to a complete stop at a stop sign or red light is a criminal, technically speaking.
But not everybody who has crossed the border is, as has been said.
Please cite one foreign country where their nationals do not have to have visas and/or proper documentation to enter the USA. Canada doesn't count, because all that's needed is a current, valid passport.
Sigh. I wish people would actually read what I type. I never said they shouldn't have proper documentation.
I object to the generalization I've noticed recently in which all brown immigrants along our southern border, including those who intend to apply for asylum, are assumed to be entering the country illegally.
There are multiple situations in which it's legal to cross the border. Even brown people from south of us. You'd never know it, if you went by some of the comments here.
It was a reply to bad fish about sandy's "nuance" diversion.
You neglected to fulfill the specific request I asked of you in 9.2.19 . I mentioned nothing about "brown" people or our southern border, by the way.