Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Excellent detailed article on the Compean and Ramos case
And also follow this link to Pat Gray's site here
Some excerpts:
Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila is a Mexican national, career drug smuggler. On February 17th, 2005, U.S. Border Patrol Agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos shot Aldrete-Davila once in the buttocks saying that they thought the suspect was armed. This claim has been supported by two of Aldrete-Davila's family members, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. They stated that Aldrete-Davila had been dealing drugs since age 14 and, according to one, he "wouldn't move drugs unless he had a gun on him."
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton responded, "There's this impression that all these dopers carry guns," but mules - smugglers such as Aldrete-Davila - "almost never carry guns," because federal law "tacks on five years to their sentence. In this one statement, US Attorney Johnny Sutton admits to knowing that Aldrete-Davila is "doper" and a "[drug] mule smuggler".
An Office of Inspector General memorandum contradicts US Attorney Sutton's claim that Ramos and Compean reported Aldrete-Davila was unarmed.
The memorandum of activity was written April 4th, 2005, by Christopher Sanchez, the OIG investigator who questioned Compean about the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting.
Labels: Compean Ramos Sutton Davila Sanchez Ramirez