Vigil for slain border patrol agent (Orange County Register)

Friday, August 28, 2009

Vigil this morning for slain border patrol agent

Britt Craig, Mission Viejo resident and Campo Minuteman, talks about Robert Rosas.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/craig-border-shooting-2544224-fbi-rosas

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – About a dozen people met at a Rancho Santa Margarita corner this morning to honor a border patrol agent killed in July and to voice their objections to illegal immigration.

At a vigil at Avenida Empresa and Avenida de Las Banderas, Orange County residents held candles, American flags and signs that said "Stop Illegal Immigration" and "Where's the outrage" with a picture of slain border patrol agent Robert Rosas.

Britt Craig, a 60-year-old Mission Viejo man who said he witnessed the killing of Rosas hosted the vigil. Craig, who has split time between his home and the Campo border as part of the Minuteman Project, is possibly the only civilian to have witnessed Rosas' fatal shooting on July 23.

"I saw him that last day, talked to him," Craig said while holding a sign. "He was a nice guy."

Craig has spent at least 96 hours a week at Campo since 2005, has said he heard gunshots at the night of Rosas' killing but couldn't see anything because of the rolling hills.

"I heard four spaced shots like bang, bang, bang, bang," Craig has said. "Then there was a shooting fairly rapidly ... three or four bangs, just as fast as you could shoot."

Border Patrol agents said they could not confirm Craig's story because the FBI is investigating the fatal shooting. The FBI did not return calls for comment.

Mexican officials told The Associated Press that they have detained five men in connection with the case.

Mexican officials also told the news service that Ernesto Parra Valenzuela, 36, had a 9mm pistol when he was captured walking alone near the scene of the shooting. They told the AP that Parra admitted he was a migrant smuggler when local police found him about five hours after the shooting, but he denied any involvement with Rosas' death.

However, FBI officials who are leading the investigation have not publicly identified any suspects.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection have offered a $250,000 reward in addition to the FBI's $110,000 reward offer.

Anyone with information about the killing can contact the FBI at 858-565-1255. The person providing information may remain anonymous, border officials said.

Check back later for further updates.

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Judge releases brothers sought by Border Patrol

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/29/accident-watch-four-dead-fiery-crash-state-route-1/?metro&zIndex=157317

TIJUANA: Two brothers whose photos appear on a U.S. Border Patrol poster displayed at the San Ysidro and Tecate ports of entry have been released from prison on the orders of a Mexican federal judge.

José Eugenio Quintero Ruiz, 49, and José Evodio Quintero Ruiz, 43, are among 12 men whose photographs appear on the poster.

Jerry Conlin, spokesman for the San Diego sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, said the 12 may have information related to several investigations. The poster went on display July 28 at the two crossings. No names are included on the poster.

The brothers were presented to reporters in Tijuana on July 25, two days after U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas was killed near the border fence in San Diego County.

They were arrested by Mexican Federal Police south of the border in the general area where the shooting occurred. Police said they had four firearms and were among a group of 21 people trying to cross illegally into the United States.

The Federal Attorney General's Office sought to have them tried on smuggling and firearms charges, but the judge ordered that the smuggling charges be dropped because the prosecutors presented insufficient evidence, a court spokeswoman said yesterday.

The two still face less serious firearms charges, the spokeswoman said. They were released after posting $

Candle Light Vigil for Agent Rosas

Jesse Petrilla, candidate for Rancho Santa Joined a group of Patriots who held Vigil for Border Agent Robert Rosas Congressman. Gary Miller came out and spoke to us and said he will work on Congress recognizing Rosas' sacrifice.

Agent Rosas Shot Eight Times

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/18/3165894-autopsy-slain-border-patrol-agent-shot-8-times

SAN DIEGO — A Border Patrol agent who was killed last month in a

remote, boulder-strewn area was shot eight times in the head, neck and torso, according to an autopsy report released Tuesday.

Robert Rosas, 30, was struck four times in the head — three times on the left side of his face and once in the back of his head, the San Diego County medical examiner's office. He was also shot once in the neck and three times in the torso.

The autopsy says Rosas and other agents were pursuing three suspected illegal immigrants on a cool, "extremely dark" night in Campo, about 60 miles east of San Diego. Rosas, driving alone, left his vehicle with the ignition running. The report says Rosas approached "at least one person," but does not elaborate.

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Agent Rosas was assassinated in retaliation for a drug shipment that was stopped a week earlier and Obama Says NOTHING.

Agent Rosas Case On America's Most Wanted

More Information:

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=67566

Agent Rosas Memorial

Jim Gilchrist points the border section with the assassin of Robert Rosas Came through the border (it has now been cemented over).

Highway Clean up 8/15/09

The Minutemen find a newly dropped back pack. The Border Patrol Opened the Back Pack which contained "Coyote Clothes" which are worn by illegal border crossers over their regular clothes. Usually they are sweat clothes which a spray painted with blue or black paint in a camouflage Border Patrol then investigated the trail where the pack had been found.





Mexican Military Peek over the Border to talk to Border Patrol and Minutemen.

Visitors to the Border

Canadian Journalists Camped out with the Campo Minutemen





Patriot from Northern California Joins the Campo Minutemen

HIGHWAY CLEAN UP SATURDAY, 8/15/2009

Since July, 2006, we have removed 15 Tons of litter from public lands. We averaged 4.5 Tons of litter removal each of the first two years (9 Tons total). Now, and for the past year, we have been averaging 1/2 Ton of litter removal per month ,or, 6 Tons of litter removal per year (9 Tons+6 Tons = 15 Tons total for past 3 years). This past April, we removed 1 Ton of litter for the full month...a one month record!

*PLEASE COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND CLEAN UP FOR A FEW HOURS*

DATE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2009
TIME: 7:00 AM
LOCATION:
MEET AT BUCKMAN SPRINGS ROAD AND OAK DRIVE, CAMPO, CA

*WE WILL ALSO CLEAN UP THE AREA AROUND THE ROSAS MEMORIAL*

PROVIDED: TRASH PICKERS, TRASH BAGS, REFLECTOR VESTS
BRING: GLOVES, COMFORTABLE SHOES, SUN BLOCK AND JACKET

The Last Words of Agent Rosas

On the night agent Rosas was killed, Kingfish saw the group and was watching them with a border patrol agent. The agent started to walk to his car, and he turned back to Kingfish and said "we are going to get these guys, I'll come back and tell you about it."

A few minutes later, the gunfire. Kingfish was never sure, until tonight. Agent Rosas' partner came by and said, that yes, that was Agent Rosas that had stopped by and talked to Kingfish.

Feds Offer Giant Reward (total $350,000) in Border Slaying (Agent Rosas)

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Feds-Offer-Giant-Reward-in-Border-Slaying-52618487.html

Federal officials added a quarter-million dollars to the already enormous FBI reward for information leading to the killer(s) of Agent Robert Rosas.

Rosas's body was found on the night of July 23 near Campo. The 30-year-old agent was killed while responding alone to a suspected border incursion near Campo. He was shot in the head and body, said Keith Slotter, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Diego bureau.

The $250,000 reward offered Thursday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is in addition to the $100,000 put up by the FBI last month. Both rewards are for the arrest and conviction of the killer(s). The FBI has also said anyone with information leading to the recovery of Rosas' missing black Heckler Koch (HK) P2000 .40 caliber service pistol would be eligible for a $10,000 reward.

Agent Rosas Update

There is growing skepticism that the Mexican government has the right people. We have also heard from reliable sources that the murder was done in retaliation for a stopped drug load the week prior, when they tried to run a truck through the border fence.

See : Saturday, July 18, 2009 Campo Minutemen Thwart Drug Smugglers:

http://www.campominutemen.com/reports/2009_07_01_archive.aspx

Which means someone illegally entered the United States, assassinated an officer of the Federal Government and Obama has said nothing. He sent the Navy Seals to kill pirates in order to save Americans and Bill Clinton to North Korea to have Journalists, but for Agent Rosas and the Border Patrol - nothing.

Kingfish on John and Ken Talking about Agent Rosas

http://www.kfi640.com/cc-common/mediaplayer/player.html?redir=yes&mps=kfijohnken.php&mid=http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/LOSANGELES-CA/KFI-AM/JK0804096P.mp3?CPROG=PCAST?CCOMRRMID&CPROG=RICHMEDIA&MARKET=LOSANGELES-CA&NG_FORMAT=talk&NG_ID=kfi640am&OR_NEWSFORMAT=&OWNER=&SERVER_NAME=www.kfiam640.com&SITE_ID=616&STATION_ID=KFI-AM&TRACK=

Out of State Teachers Visit the Border

Wanting to be able to give their students a first hand account of the Border, a group of teachers from out of state visited the Border.

They originally planned to camp overnight, however this was changed for security reasons after the murder of Agent Rosas.

Campo Minuteman In The Orange County Register (talking about Agent Rosas)

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/craig-border-campo-2515547-rosas-patrol





CAMPO – The 60-year-old man with the weathered face and dusty garb gazed at the white metal cross stretching toward the blue-desert sky.

"This should not have happened," explained Britt Craig, a Minuteman who shares his time between his home in Mission Viejo and his calling, Campo.

The newly erected cross marks the spot where, officials say, a smuggling suspect gunned down Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas more than a week ago.