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Vehicle Rollover Injures Several
Illegal Immigrants
pro-illegal, humane borders taxpayers
happy to pick up the tab in the SPIRIT of charity
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On Sunday June 20, 2004, at
approximately 3:56 p.m., the Cochise County Sheriff’s
Office received a report of a one-vehicle accident on Davis
Road approximate milepost 5. The call was received from a
passing motorist who advised that the vehicle came westbound
around the curve at a high rate of speed before going off the
south side of the roadway and overturning at least one time.
The caller advised that at least ten people got out of the
truck and fled the area on foot.
Sheriff’s Deputies
responded to the area and located an older model white Fort
pickup truck with a camper shell that was upside down off the
roadway without any occupants in or near the vehicle.
Sheriff’s Deputies and Border Patrol agents remained in
the area searching the brush in an attempt to locate any
potentially injured subjects, without success.
At approximately 6:44 p.m. a
citizen living in the area near milepost 3 on Davis Road, off
of Wild West Road, advised that several subjects were on his
property and appeared to be injured. Sheriff’s Deputies
along with U.S. Border Patrol agents and medical personal
responded and located five injured subjects, one female and
four males. All of the subjects were illegal immigrants, most
of whom were in their twenties. Two of the males were taken to
Copper Queen Hospital with minor injuries, one male and one
female were taken to Sierra Vista Regional Health Care Center
with minor injuries, and the last male subject was airlifted to
a Tucson hospital for treatment of more serious injuries. The
injured subjects confirmed that the vehicle was traveling
westbound on Davis Road when it skidded off the south side of
the roadway before turning over and causing all ten occupants
to flee the area.
The accident investigation
is being continued by the Cochise County Sheriff’s
Office and anyone with any additional information about this
incident is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at
432-9500. All information received will remain confidential.
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Body Found East of Bisbee Near Douglas
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On Thursday, June 17, 2004,
at approximately 2.40 p.m., the Cochise County Sheriff’s
Office was advised of a dead body in a desert area ten miles
east of Bisbee off Highway 80. Sheriff’s Deputies
responded to the scene and discovered the body of a male
subject approximately 1.5 miles south of the roadway.
The initial investigation possibly
links the body recovery to a missing person report that was
taken by the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday,
June 15, 2004. The missing person report was for a 16-year-old
male juvenile residing in Pirtleville outside Douglas,
who was last seen by family members in the morning hours of
Saturday, June 12, 2004. The juvenile was reportedly en route
to Tucson to meet with family members and he failed to arrive
or call.
The clothing and personal
description for the missing person and the found body are
similar, leading investigators to believe that this is the same
subject; however, positive identification is pending comparison
of dental records by the medical examiner’s office.
There is no indication of foul play at
this time. The investigation is being continued by the Cochise
County Sheriff’s Office until the autopsy is completed
with cause of death being cited.
Additional information will be
released as it becomes available.
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Illegal Immigrants Reported Being
Beaten and Robbed
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On Sunday, June 20, 2004, at
approximately 12:30 a.m. U.S. Border Patrol agents advised the
Cochise County Sheriff’s Office to report an assault on
two illegal immigrants in the Naco/Bisbee area. Border Patrol
agents advised that they observed a man and woman walking on
Highway 92 near milepost 348 who appeared to be illegal
immigrants. Upon making contact with the subjects, they
observed the male subject. Bisbee Fire Department arrived on
the scene and transported the male subject to the hospital for
continued medical treatment. The victim was treated for several
head/face lacerations and a broken kneecap and hip while at the
Copper Queen Hospital
The woman identified as a
25-year-old from Teautepec Morelos, Mexico advised that she and
her 32-year-old husband also from the same town were in Naco,
Arizona, after crossing the border illegally.
The woman advised that she and her
husband both got into the vehicle that already had several
other subjects inside and they began traveling north out of
Naco. The woman advised that a short distance out of Naco
several of the others in the vehicle, all men, began demanding
money from her and her husband. The woman advised that the
vehicle came to stop a short while later and both of them were
told to get out of the car. Once they were outside the vehicle,
the woman advised that her husband appeared to have been beaten
in the head and face area and six of the men got out of the car
and began kicking him in the head and body. The men then left
the area in the vehicle heading westbound after getting
approximately 500 pesos from the man.
The woman was released to U.S.
Border Patrol and was returned to Mexico, the man was also
released back to Mexico where he remains in a hospital for
continued medical care. The investigation is being continued by
the Cochise Sheriff’s Office. Anyone with additional
information about this incident is urged to contact the
Sheriff’s Office, at 432-9500. All information
received will remain confidential.
