Re: Re: Alien Smugglers Use Ambulance Service to Get Through Checkpoint

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spenair:

            I see where you're coming from! Maybe you can get your local

politicians involved, and, if not, go HIGHER! That's pretty sorry for Border

Patrol to use that as an excuse! Too bad you can't " treat'em and street'em " and

save the 90+ mile ride! Good Luck!

Learningmedic:

                       I have a couple of friends working EMS in that area, and

that's not uncommon! I'd go further, but the rest of it is speculation from

those medics, and, if what they say is true, the " perpetrators " WILL get caught!

          

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To: texasems-l

Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:54:40 PM

Subject: Re: Alien Smugglers Use Ambulance Service to Get Through

Checkpoint

But here Border Patrol will not stop our ambulance even at the check point. And

if they come aid us on a wreck scene or lifting a patient they will not ask for

ID from the patient. The reason I have been given when I have asked is that if

they identify them as illegal they have to put them in custody and then become

responsible for the medical bills.

It is frustrating to have patients get miracle cures as they pass the magical

automatic doors at the hospital. Then they get up and walk out of the hospital

before we can clean up and do paperwork. Even more frustrating and sickening is

that people have died or laid suffering at wreck scenes while the ambulance is

on the 90 mile trip to the nearest hospital. I wonder how many times it was for

a faked illness? If proven that someone died while someone was faking they

should be charged with murder.

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> From: spenair

> Subject: Alien Smugglers Use Ambulance Service to Get Through

Checkpoint

> To: texasems-l@yahoogro ups.com

> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 10:32 AM

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> Presidio EMS in the news

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> http://www.cbs7. com/news/ details.asp? ID=11836

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> Alien Smugglers Use Ambulance Service to Get Through Checkpoint 4/14/09

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> Border Patrol News Release

> April 14, 2009

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> Marfa, Texas - A clever smuggling scheme in Presidio County, Texas, came to an

abrupt end March 5, 2009, with the arrest of a Presidio man who had been using

an ambulance service to transport illegal aliens past a Border Patrol

checkpoint. Lionel Armendariz-Cabezuel a, 38, was arrested by Immigration and

Customs Enforcement agents following a six-month investigation by the Border

Patrol and ICE.

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> Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol's Marfa Sector had received a report that a

person had feigned an illness in order to be transported to the Big Bend

Regional Medical Center in Alpine from Presidio. The trip includes passing

through the Border Patrol Checkpoint south of Marfa..

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> Armendariz has been charged with alien smuggling. Allegedly, someone in Mexico

could contact a person in Ojinaga who would assist them in crossing the Rio

Grande River where they would be met and taken to a location in Presidio. They

would be coached in how to call for ambulance service and then fake an illness,

either chest or abdominal pain. Reportedly the cost to the illegal alien for the

effort was $3,700.

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> Ironically, Armendariz became ill while being interviewed by agents at their

office in Presidio and had to be transported by the same ambulance service to

the hospital.

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> Armendariz has plead guilty to the charges.

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> http://www.kwes. com/global/ story.asp? s=10184212

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> Presidio Man Admits to Human Smuggling Scheme Involving Ambulances

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> Staff Report

> NewsWest 9

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> A Presidio man admits to his part in a human smuggling scheme involving

ambulances.

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> 38-year-old Lionel Armendariz-Cabezuel a was arrested back in March following

a six month investigation by the Border Patrol and I.C.E.

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> Agents say Armendariz used an ambulance to bypass the border checkpoint to

smuggle illegal aliens into the U.S.

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> We're told he instructed clients to fake an illness, and when they were met at

the border they would be taken to the hospital in Alpine.

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