Suspect crosses border minutes before warrant issued
From Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers
CNN
Friday, June 10, 2005 Posted: 9:21 PM EDT (0121 GMT)
U.S. customs agents confiscated Despres' weapons before letting him into the United States.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. border officials who detained, then released, an American at the Canadian border with a chainsaw and a knapsack full of weapons "relentlessly" looked for a reason to hold him, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told Congress
again a man with multiple weapons, one of which appeared bloody... that wasn't reason to hold him.
They didn't know about the killings of his next-door neighbors -- or the sentencing he faced for the assault of the neighbors' grandson.
hmmmmm now, shouldn't the canadian authorities have told him about the sentancing when they i don't know -called- or hey better yet told them about his being on trial for assault
CNN has learned that during the three hours Gregory Despres was held at the U.S. border station April 25, a Canadian judge issued a warrant for his arrest for failing to appear at his sentencing that morning.
and the canuks failed to tell us huh?
Court records indicate the warrant was issued at 10:16 a.m. ET.
Approximately 15 minutes later, U.S. border officers released him and approved his entry into the United States.
so no one called the US border patrol huh?
Raised suspicions
U.S. officials said border officers were suspicious of the man with a Mohawk who told officials he was a U.S. Marine assassin. They speculated that the red spots on his chainsaw were blood and looked for a reason to detain him. But checks to find any outstanding warrants came up empty, they said.
and making false statements isn't a crime now?
"To my knowledge none of our officers were aware that he had missed that court time," said Customs and Border Protection official Steve Farquharson.
Nor did they know that a Canadian warrant had been issued, another official said.
U.S. border officers said they were powerless to hold Despres any longer because he was a U.S. citizen.
"Our officers strongly encouraged and tried to convince Mr. Despres to go back to Canada voluntarily to resolve his legal issues," Farquharson said.
wait wait wait
did they know, or did they not know. and since they know he had legal issues is it ok for a canadian criminal to just walk across the border to avoid prosecution?
Officials on both sides of the border say that even if U.S. authorities had learned of the Canadian warrant, authorities probably wouldn't have taken legal action to return him to Canada.
"I think it would be highly unlikely that we would go through the resources of extraditing an individual from the United States for a summary conviction assault misdemeanor," Hawkins said.
yes because some one convicted of a violent crime with a bloody weapon.. we should just let him into the country
"Local border patrol folks questioned the person, seized the weapons, checked relentlessly to see if there was any outstanding warrants, papers or charges," he told Congress Thursday.
"At the end of the day a U.S. citizen is entitled to return to the country and we [can't] hold people without a legal basis. So it was not a failure of investigation or failure of processing. It was kind of an inherent limitation of our system of law."
It's canada's fault
rrrrrrrrright
with the trackrecord of the department of homeland stupidity and with their thinking we are ignorant with their comments, I think we can see the truth. they really wouldn't have stopped a violent criminal with bloody weapons
clearly intelligent
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