Two Mexican Nationals Charged in Killing US Coast Guardsman
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, December 3, 2012, 5:45 PM
Federal prosecutors charged two Mexican nationals today in connection with the killing of a US Coast Guardsman.
The incident occurred near Santa Cruz Island on Sunday morning.
Today two Mexican nationals were charged in US court.
The LA Times reported:
Federal prosecutors charged two Mexican nationals in connection with killing U.S. Coast Guardsmen Terrell Horne III after they allegedly rammed his vessel with a drug-smuggling panga boat.
The two men, boat captain Jose Mejia-Leyva and Manuel Beltra-Higuera, are expected to appear in court Monday afternoon to face charges that they killed a federal officer.
Horne, 34, of Redondo Beach, was killed Sunday after suspected smugglers in a panga rammed his vessel off the Ventura County coast. He died of severe head trauma, officials said.The Redondo Beach resident was second in command of the Halibut, an 87-foot patrol cutter based in Marina del Rey. Authorities said they could not recall a Coast Guard chief petty officer being killed in such a manner off the coast of California.
Early Sunday morning, the Halibut was dispatched to investigate a boat operating near Santa Cruz Island, the largest of California’s eight Channel Islands. The island is roughly 25 miles southwest of Oxnard.
The boat, first detected by a patrol plane, had come under suspicion because it was operating in the middle of the night without lights and was a “panga”-style vessel, an open-hulled boat that has become “the choice of smugglers operating off the coast of California,” said Coast Guard spokesman Adam Eggers.
The Coast Guard cutter contains a smaller boat, a rigid-hull inflatable used routinely for search-and-rescue operations and missions that require a nimble approach. When Horne and his team approached in the inflatable, the suspect boat gunned its engine, maneuvered directly toward the Coast Guard inflatable, rammed it and fled.
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SeniorD commented:
Here’s an idea: let them go free but only AFTER announcing they sang like canaries. It doesn’t have to be true, but the death penalty will get served anyway.
damnnodaks commented:
Hang em from the yard arm
Economan commented:
What’s the use… Obama will pardon them and appoint them to cabinet posts in charge of the border patrol.
cavt commented:
Wow–know Santa Cruz island. Oxnard is about an hour drive north of LA so this is nowhere near the border.
ar05075 commented:
Wow,mexican terrorists.
Buffalobob commented:
Did they find any of Holder’s Fast and Furious Guns?
GotFreedom commented:
Obama and Holder will invite them to the White House; grant them immunity and give them amnesty and and a big welfare check/food stamps and an Obama phone!
The dead CoastGuardsman will be vilified by the media for for being a racist. . .how dare he try to stop these men from making a living. . .it was because they are Mexican right that he tried to stop them?
GotFreedom commented:
Bet the WH will release a statement anytime now that if BHO had a son, he’d be just like these 2 Mexican nationals. . .
GotFreedom commented:
#9 December 3, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Buffalobob commented:
Did they find any of Holder’s Fast and Furious Guns?
No doubt they were dumped at sea. . .you know, like they dumped Osama Bin Laden’s body so we will never know!!!
Jim - PRS commented:
The Coast Guard acted stupidly. /sarc
RayRayII commented:
How quickly will the 0bama admin & La Racist jump to defend the two killers?
SeniorD commented:
But, isn’t the Coast Guard part of Big
Sis’Brother’s Insecure Homeland? This means Dear Leader will simply toss the Coasties under the bus and let these two criminals stay rent free.tbflowers commented:
Did the Halibut open fire on the aggressive vessel? I think the class of cutter comes armed with a pair of machine guns. I sure would have liked them to have given the smugglers a proper send off rather than read the smugglers fled the scene. :/
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