GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Water treatment employee faces terrorism charges

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: AZ Central

02April2011 1:19pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A Mesa wastewater employee faces terrorism charges after police say he shut down a Southeast Valley wastewater treatment plant, creating a buildup of methane gas and sparking a standoff with Gilbert SWAT.

Mesa police and Gilbert SWAT officers responded to the plant, which is owned by Mesa, Gilbert and Queen Creek but operated by Mesa.

A two-hour standoff ended when Olson surrendered at 4:30 a.m., Balafas said. He was booked into the Maricopa County 4th Avenue Jail on suspicion of terrorism, making terrorist threats, misconduct involving weapons, tampering with a public utility, criminal trespassing and criminal damage to property. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Chandler beheading tied to Mexican drug cartel

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: AZ Central

03March2011 9:04amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The man whose decapitated body was found in a Chandler apartment was killed in retaliation for stealing 400 pounds of marijuana from a Mexican drug trafficking organization, a police report reveals.

The Chandler police report also reveals that the victim believed in Santa Muerte, a Mexican saint of death, and had bragged to his companions shortly before his beheading that he had died and come back to life five times and could kill with a look.

The body of Martin Alejandro Cota Monroy, 38, commonly known as "Jando," was found on the living room floor of 300 W. Fairview St. on Oct. 9. His head was found on the floor several feet away.

Cota Monroy ran afoul of the PEI-Estatales/El Chapo Drug Trafficking Organization when he stole a load of marijuana as well as methamphetamines from the cartel, then lied and blamed in on Border Patrol, the police report says.

To avenge the theft, an enforcement/kidnapping group called "Los Relampagos" was sent to kidnap him, according to the report. The report contains "raw intelligence" Chandler police obtained from the U.S. Border Patrol Intelligence Unit.

Cota Monroy talked his way out of getting killed, the report says, because he promised to repay the money for the drugs he stole and put his house up for collateral.

Instead, he fled to a Phoenix "safe house." It turned out he didn't own the house he put up for collateral. A syndicate known as "El Gio" sent three men to Phoenix to find him, befriend him and kill him, the report says. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 'Unusually' large group of illegal immigrants found in AZ desert

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: ABC15

25February2011 12:25pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: LUKEVILLE, AZ - Border agents said Wednesday they arrested an unusually large group of illegal immigrants crossing through the western Arizona desert in what authorities said is proof that increased border technology is working.

Border Patrol surveillance video operators Friday morning spotted a group of more than 100 people walking just north of the Mexico border about 15 miles west of Lukeville, Ariz., Agent Eric Cantu said.

When agents responded, Cantu said they were able to arrest 22 people but the rest of the group scattered.

A helicopter team found much of the group hiding in thick brush, and agents arrested 106 additional illegal immigrants. The smugglers and other suspected illegal immigrants may have gotten away, Cantu said. The 128 men who were apprehended have either been returned to Mexico or were jailed because of prior convictions.

The Border Patrol's Tucson sector typically sees such large groups of border crossers no more than once or twice a year, Cantu said. Illegal immigrants typically travel in groups of five to 15, he said, because larger groups are much easier to detect.  (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Arizona Senate Panel Passes Sweeping Bills Targeting Illegals, Birthright Citizenship

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Fox News

23February2011 4:42amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: PHOENIX -- An Arizona Senate committee late Tuesday narrowly approved a sweeping bill that would target illegal immigrants in public housing, public benefits and the workplace.

The committee earlier Tuesday also approved a bill that would deny automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants in a measure designed to set up a possible U.S. Supreme Court case on the issue.

Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce, who authored Arizona's controversial illegal immigration law last year that touched off a nationwide debate on whether states can enforce federal immigration laws, sponsored Tuesday's more sweeping measure.

"If you're in the country illegally, you don't have a right to public benefits, period," he said. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Ariz. may require hospitals to check citizenship

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Washington Times

14February2011 8:33amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona’s illegal immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether patients are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical professionals who fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law.

The medical industry ripped the bill Monday as it was scheduled for a hearing by the state SenateJudiciary Committee. Doctors envisioned scenarios in which immigrants with contagious diseases such as tuberculosis would stay home from the clinic or hospital and put themselves and the public at a grave health risk.

“This is making us into a police state that will try to catch people when they are sick,” said Dr. George Pauk, a retired physician with an organization called Physicians for a National Health Program. “Do we want to stop sick people from coming in for health care?”

Arizona’s is the first legislature to take up such a measure amid a national push in conservative states to crack down on illegal immigration, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Arizona lawmakers ignited the debate a year ago when they passed a bill that required local police, while enforcing other laws, to question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. A judge later put that provision on hold. (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Pinal sheriff sees open battle with cartels in immediate future

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: AZ Central

02February2011 12:41pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members within the next 30 to 60 days.

Babeu made that prediction last week as he addressed an Ahwatukee Foothills Republican women's club, and reiterated it Tuesday on the heels of a speech by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asserting that border communities are safer than ever. (read full report)