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Eloy Vasquez-Santiago, suspected of killing Hillsboro woman, scheduled for trial
Emily E. Smith
OregonLive.com
2013-11-21
Tags:
crime, enforcement, illegal aliens

A Washington County judge this week ruled that the man suspected of killing 55-year-old Maria Bolanos-Rivera is mentally fit to stand trial.

The mother of six left her Hillsboro home on Aug. 26, 2012, the last time her family saw her. Bolanos-Rivera's body has not been found. Vasquez-Santiago has been charged with murder in her apparent death.

Vasquez-Santiago's murder charge came in September last year after he turned himself in to authorities at the California-Mexico border. According to court records and testimony, he uttered with the words, "I killed her," during a...

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Deportation issue clouds hit-and-run case
Forest Grove driver rejects a plea offer that would likely cause deportation
Jill Rehkopf Smith |
News Times
2013-11-20
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crime, illegal immigration, deferred action, driver's license

Deportation has become one of the main issues in the case of the 18-year-old driver of the car that allegedly struck and killed two Forest Grove sisters playing in a leaf pile.

Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros, 18, has been charged with two counts of “Failure to perform the duties of a driver,” more commonly known as hit-and-run. The Class C felony is punishable by up to five years in prison.

At a pre-trial conference last week, District Attorney Bracken McKey offered a plea deal to Garcia (who does not use the Cisneros part of her name) that would limit her prison term to 16 months...

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Polk County weapons arrest leads to Gresham drug cache, police say
Stuart Tomlinson
OregonLive.com
2013-11-15
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crime, drugs, enforcement, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, Oregon legislation

A 30-year-old Gresham man arrested on a Polk County highway Wednesday for unlawful possession of a weapon, was later connected to the seizure of methamphetamine and heroin from Gresham apartment.

Sgt. Chris Ray, a spokesman for the Yamhill County Interagency Narcotics Team, said Edgar Hugo Guerrero Robles was booked into the Polk County Jail after he was stopped on Oregon 22 near Ridgeway Road at about 6 p.m. for unlawful possession of a weapon.
 

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Hillsboro police shooting: Court records indicate Victor Torres-Elizondo had warrant
Rebecca Woolington
OregonLive.com
2013-10-31
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border, Border Patrol, Mexico, crime, drugs, driver's license, illegal aliens, Oregon legislation

Court records indicate that Victor Torres-Elizondo, killed by a Hillsboro police officer after he fired a shot at police during a traffic stop, had a criminal history that involved multiple drug-related crimes but no violent offenses.

Police say Torres-Elizondo, 30, fired a shot from a .22 caliber revolver during a traffic stop on Friday, Oct. 25, before a Hillsboro police officer fired six shots back, striking Torres-Elizondo. He was taken to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, where he died, authorities say. Torres-Elizondo died of a gunshot wound to the chest, according...

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Teens plead not guilty in death of girls
Chris Holmstrom
KOIN - Channel 6 News
2013-10-23
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enforcement, illegal immigration, deferred action, driver's license, illegal aliens

FOREST GROVE, Ore. (KOIN) - Two 18-year-olds pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a hit-and-run crash that killed two young girls who were playing in front of their house on Oct. 20.

Cinthya Cisneros and Mario Echeverria were in the Washington County Courthouse to face the charges in the deaths of Abby Robinson, 11, and her 6-year-old sister Anna Dieter-Eckerdt.

Cisneros is accused of being the driver who ran over the girls as they played in a pile of leaves that night. Echeverria, her boyfriend, was a passenger in the car.

She said she had intentionally run over a pile of...

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Forest Grove fatal crash: Two Washington County residents arrested in connection with wreck
Noelle Crombie
OregonLive.com
2013-10-22
Tags:
crime, illegal aliens

A 18-year-old Forest Grove woman and her 18-year-old boyfriend were arrested this evening in connection with the weekend wreck that killed two young step sisters, according to a law enforcement source.

Cinthya Garcia Cisneros faces accusations of failure to perform the duties of a driver, a felony. Mario Echeverria, of Cornelius, who was in the car at the time of the wreck, is accused of hindering prosecution, a felony, and tampering with physical evidence, a misdemeanor.

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Cinthya Garcia Cisneros - ICE HOLD

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Traffic stop nets 22 pounds of meth
Herald and News
2013-10-17
Tags:
crime, drugs, illegal aliens

About 22 pounds of methamphetamine was seized after a traffic stop on Saturday.

Sandra Guillen-Avila, 38, and Jeronimo Novoa-Leal, 24, were stopped by Oregon State Police on Highway 97 on Saturday. An additional search of their vehicle turned up 22 pounds of methamphetamine.

Both suspects were taken into custody and booked into the Klamath County Jail. Guillen-Avila was charged with two counts of possession of methamphetamine, first-degree possession of a forged instrument and two counts of criminal conspiracy. Novoa-Leal was booked on two counts of possession of...

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Fredy Sandoval Diaz sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for raping 2 girls
By Steve Mayes
OregonLive.com
2013-10-14
Tags:
crime, enforcement, illegal aliens

When it came time for Fredy Sandoval Diaz to speak, he told the judge, "I wouldn't know what to say."

Sandoval was found guilty of repeatedly raping a girlfriend's daughter when she was 10. The sexual assaults continued for years. He also was convicted of raping another girl who was just 12.
 

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ICE HOLD - Fredy Sandoval Diaz
 

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Banks man convicted of Aloha revenge killing set for new trial in 2014
Emily E. Smith
OregonLive.com
2013-10-09
Tags:
Mexico, crime, enforcement, illegal aliens

An aggravated murder case that returned to Washington County Circuit Court on appeal in 2011 is scheduled to be retried in April.

The Oregon Supreme Court overturned the case against Petronilo Lopez-Minjarez, of Banks, in August 2011 because of a bad jury instruction. The instruction incorrectly stated the law on accomplice liability, the court decided.
 

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NOTE: Petronilo Lopez Minjarez - ICE HOLD
 

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Two Hillsboro men sentenced to prison for methamphetamine possession
Roger Gregory
The Oregonian
2013-09-27
Tags:
crime, drugs, illegal aliens

Summary: Two men accused of dealing methamphetamine have been convicted and sentenced in Washington County Circuit Court.
 

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NOTE: Gerardo Barriga-Avalos and Manuel Avalos-Pina - ICE HOLDS

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