Shawna Forde--Prosecutor pursing the death penalty

NC Sez:  I believe in the death penalty as well as a quick administer of Justice and sentencing. If Shawna and her buddies are found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt before a jury of their peers for the execution style murders of a child and her father, even though he might have been a drug runner,  then they deserve to be executed for their crimes.  Plain and simple.  Everyone deserves Due Process.  Don’t claim to stand up for the Constitution,  and then deny one Due Process, even a drug runner!

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by Tim Stellar

August 13, 2009

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against the three people accused of killing a man and his nine-year-old daughter on May 30 in Arivaca.

Deputy Pima County attorneys Rick Unklesbay and Kellie Johnson filed a notice of their intent this week in the cases against Shawna Forde, Jason E. Bush and Albert R. Gaxiola.

The three are accused of breaking into the home of Raul Junior Flores and his wife, and killing Flores and his daughter, Brisenia. Flores’ wife was shot three times but survived and, in an exchange of gunfire captured on a recording of her 911 call, managed to hit Bush and injure him slightly, according to Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigators.

The investigators allege the ringleader of the group was Forde, the founder of a small border-watch group called Minutemen American Defense, based in Everett, Wash. but operating on the Arizona-Mexico border. They say Forde planned to rob suspected drug traffickers in an effort to fund her border-watch group and other planned activities.

The investigators accused Bush of being the triggerman, first shooting Raul Flores, then his wife, then interrogating Brisenia before executing her.

All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, which include two counts of first degree murder.

Death sought for 3 in Arivaca case

August 14, 2009

by Tim Stellar

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against the three people accused of killing a man and his 9-year-old daughter on May 30 in Arivaca.

Deputy Pima County Attorneys Rick Unklesbay and Kellie Johnson filed a notice of their intent this week in the cases against Shawna Forde, Jason E. Bush and Albert R. Gaxiola.

The three are accused of breaking into the home of Raul Junior Flores and his wife, and killing Flores and his daughter, Brisenia. Flores’ wife was shot three times but survived and, in an exchange of gunfire captured on a recording of her 911 call, managed to hit Bush and injure him slightly, according to Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigators.

The prosecutors listed six legal bases for seeking the death penalty. They include the arguments that the crimes were committed for monetary gain; that there was a victim under 15 years old; and that they were carried out in a cold, calculated manner.

In Arizona death-penalty cases, once a conviction occurs, the jury decides whether execution is warranted.

The investigators allege the ringleader of the group was Forde, the founder of a small border-watch group called Minutemen American Defense, based in Everett, Wash., but operating on the Arizona-Mexico border.

They say Forde planned to rob suspected drug traffickers to fund her border-watch group and other activities. Former allies and relatives of Forde’s say she discussed similar plans in the months before the killings.

The investigators accused Bush of being the triggerman, first shooting Raul Flores, then his wife, then interrogating Brisenia before executing her, according to interviews and documents filed in a Washington state court.

All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include two counts of first-degree murder.

In an Aug. 2 letter to the Star, Gaxiola, of Arivaca, said he is not “the beast the sheriffs state I am.”

“Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land,” he wrote.

In an interview with the Star last week, Bush said he is not guilty of the slayings, was not a member of Minutemen American Defense and that he favors open borders. He also said he had been compiling dossiers on people or groups.

Forde has declined interview requests, but a Web site set up on her behalf — www. justiceforshawnaforde.com — argues that she was set up and is now being “railroaded.”

Since his June arrest in the Arivaca case, Bush has also been charged with two separate 1997 slayings in central Washington state. Authorities there accuse Bush of being affiliated with the Aryan Nations, an accusation Bush denies. The victims in those cases were a homeless, sleeping Hispanic man and a teenage white supremacist.

NC Sez: It’s no surprise that Shmuck U Schumer would deny the Truth and Lie to the American people. All this shmuck is interested in is gaining more votes for his party.  Once again, it’s not what’s in the best interest of the American people or America but what’s in the best interest of Schmuck U Schmuer and the Democratic Party.

by Paul Williams

Schumer: “Borders Now Secure”

$1 Trillion in Extra Health Care Costs

Charles Schumer (D-NY), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says that the borders are now “secure enough to move forward on immigration reform.”

Mr. Schumer’s statement comes on the heels of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas, who was gunned down by members of a Mexican smuggling ring in July.

Five suspects have been taken into custody by Mexican law enforcement officials.

Immigration reform for Mr. Schumer, according to the Minuteman PAC, is the granting of full amnesty to all illegal aliens who live within the U.S.

Mr. Schumer pledged that his committee will have the new bill ready by Labor Day.

Agent Rosas, 30 years-old, leaves behind a wife and two young children who may grow up wondering why the government their father swore an oath to serve left him under-equipped to handle the violent flood of illegal aliens, crime, and drugs coming at him every day.

Mr. Schumer’s proposal, according to the Minuteman PAC, represents amnesty for the 12 to 32 million illegal aliens who have already made their way into the United States.

An outline of the plan has been endorsed by President Barack Obama. “My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform,” Mr. Obama said at a meeting with the bipartisan group of legislators. “What’s also been acknowledged is that the 12 million or so undocumented workers are here–who are not paying taxes in the ways that we’d like them to be paying taxes, who are living in the shadows, that that is a group that we have to deal with in a practical, common-sense way.”

Mr. Schumer says that the new legislation will be ready for congressional consideration before Labor Day.

The measure for amnesty will circumvent and curtail concerns over health care for the illegal Latinos.

Overnight they will become resident aliens with full rights to all government programs, including welfare, social security, and health care.

The measure, according to the Minutemen, will cost the U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion.

Despite the enormous ramifications of Mr. Schumer’s proposed legislation, it has attracted little attention from major American news outlets.

The Immigration Reform Bill will impose a new national worker identification system on all U.S. residents. Mr. Schumer says that the system “must have the strictest privacy and civil liberties protections, and must only be used for employment,” not other federal ID purposes.

But the Senator was silent on whether the government would maintain a database of fingerprint or other biometric information on all workers, or if data could be locked into a portable card or other microchip-bearing device held by an individual.

Situation Worsens–Back Door Remains Open

by Paul Williams, a No Compromise Media Contributor

The Real Face of Obama's Open Immigration Policies

Something bad is taking place at the border.

“We’re seeing a lot of MS-13,” says Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol. “They’re typically known to be guns for hire, they’re known to smuggle narcotics and human traffic across the border illegally.”

MS-13 stands for Mara Salvatrucha, the most violent street gang in the western hemisphere.

Last week Border Patrol agents arrested two MS-13 members: one in Tucson and one in Nogales.

The Nogales arrestee was identified by his tattoos – - the letter M on his right bicep; the letter S on his left; the number 1 on his right triceps; the number 3 on his left.

“He was already deported from Los Angeles back to Mexico and he was attempting to re-enter to join back up with his gang,” Scioli says.

Tucson’s Border Patrol Sector is the busiest in the U.S. Last year its agents arrested about 317,000 illegal immigrants. Scioli says 16 percent, or almost 50,000, had some type of criminal record.

But the presence of MS-13 merits special concern.

They specialize in transporting arms and drugs across the border. Most of the weapons come from El Salvador – - the homeland of most of the gang members – - where a hand grenade sells for $10; an M-16 rifle for $200; and an AK-47 for $1,500. The Maras have made a fortune by purchasing such weapons and selling them to members of other street gangs throughout the U.S.

In recent years, the Maras have taken over drug routes that had been established by other Latino gangs. At present, nearly 90 percent of the cocaine and marijuana that flows into the states comes from Mexico and the lion’s share from the trafficking remains under the control of MS. The drug business is so brisk that the gang has set up large warehouses to store the illicit drugs in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas.

Along with importing, the Maras also engage in exporting stolen goods from the U.S. to Latin America – - including massive amounts of baby formula, health and beauty supplies, cologne and perfume, and diabetes test strips from Texas; electronics from Arizona and California; and automobiles from nearly every state in the Southwest.

According to gang investigators from the District Attorney’s Office in Orange County, California, 80% of the cars on the streets of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have been stolen from the United States by members of Mara Salvatrucha.

Thousands of MS members now occupy prison cells from Maine to California for such crimes as trafficking in illegal narcotics, home invasion, burglary, carjacking, extortion, witness intimidation, rape and murder, including the assassinations of three federal agents.

Many migrants who want to cross the 1,820 mile border between Mexico and the United States must come to terms with more than three thousand MS gang members who keep watch over the border crossings like turkey vultures.

The going rate for safe passage is $5,000. Families without the requisite cash are compelled to relinquish all their possessions – - family heirlooms, gold necklaces, silver bracelets, wedding rings, even their shoes and sombreros. Those with neither money nor tangible goods must come up with other offerings, including the sexual favors of their wives and children.

Those who resist payment are often hacked to pieces or tossed from moving trains. “There are hundreds who are pushed off trains by the Maras if they resist the robberies,” says Asdrubal Aguilar Zepeda, the Salvadoran counsel in Tapachula, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. The bodies and body parts of dead migrants are often strewn along the railroad tracks from Tapachula to the northern regions of Mexico.

By controlling the leading passageways into the U.S., Mara Salvatrucha has transmogrified into a multimillion dollar enterprise, and, by so doing, has become a leading international Mafia.

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Jason Bush is already a suspect, along with Shawna Forde, in two recent deaths.

By Scott North and Jackson Holtz

Herald Writers

WENATCHEE — Genetic evidence found on a blood- spattered T-shirt has led to another murder charge for a self-styled Minuteman already accused of killing two people during a home invasion robbery in Arizona.

Jason "Gunny" Bush

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, is an ex-convict who police say has “long-standing ties” to white supremacist groups. He has claimed to be a decorated combat veteran and former special forces warrior and was known as “Gunny” to members of Minutemen American Defense.

That’s the border-watch group founded by Shawna Forde, 41, of Everett.

Forde, Bush and another man were charged Fridaywith two counts of first-degree murder stemming from a botched May 30 home-invasion robbery in Arivaca, Ariz. Police say a suspected drug trafficker and his 9-year-old daughter were fatally shot.

That same day, Bush was quietly charged with second- degree murder in connection with the 1997 killing of Hector Lopez Partida in Wenatchee.

Bush was linked to the killing through scientific tests and statements he made to police informants, including bragging about killing “a Mexican” and two others in Wenatchee, according to a Chelan County Superior Court affidavit.

Lopez Partida, 29, of Wenatchee, had been sleeping near a grain silo when he was repeatedly stabbed and stomped and left to bleed to death.

When asked who attacked him, the victim reportedly said “Gavachos (white guys).” It was the last thing he ever said, according to court papers.

Bush became a suspect in January after the state crime lab extracted DNA from sweat stains in a T-shirt that was found near Lopez Partida. The shirt, spattered with the victim’s blood, was found less than 100 yards from the slain man’s body on July 24, 1997, according to court papers.

Police had no suspects and in 2005 asked the crime lab to see if it could use improved genetic testing to pinpoint whose DNA was on the shirt. Tests showed the only genetic material was blood from Lopez Partida and sweat left by Jason Bush, Wenatchee police Sgt. Cherie Smith said.

“This guy was never on our radar screen prior to the DNA match,” she said.

Bush was 22 at the time of the killing. He went to prison a few months later and spent nearly five years behind bars for a variety of crimes, including auto theft, assault and weapons violations. After release in 2003, he moved to northern Idaho’s Hayden Lake area, where he lived until 2007, the affidavit said.

Wenatchee police “learned Bush has had long standing ties to Aryan Nations groups that commonly believe in white superiority over other races and have been known to be violent towards non-white races. He espoused these beliefs to associates in Wenatchee in 1997,” the affidavit said.

Wenatchee police earlier this year issued a nationwide warrant for Bush’s arrest on a parole violation.

Last week, Wenatchee detectives were contacted by investigators in Arizona, who were seeking him in connection with the home invasion killings.

Detectives in Wenatchee contacted two confidential informants who provided crucial information to tie Bush to the 1997 homicide, Smith said. Both recounted how Bush bragged about killings in Wenatchee, including a case that matched the circumstances of Lopez Partida’s death, court papers said.

On Friday, a Wenatchee detective flew to Arizona to interview Bush.

“He denied any involvement” in the 1997 case, Smith said. “He was served with our murder in the second-degree warrant.”

Bush is being held in Pima County, Ariz., accused of being the gunman who shot three people, two fatally, during a home invasion robbery seeking drugs and money.

Raul Flores, 29, and his daughter, Brisenia, 9, were killed when a group of armed people, including a woman, forced their way into the home. The child’s mother traded gunfire with the attackers. The woman survived but remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Shawna Forde-Charged with Murder 1

Arizona detectives have accused Forde of directing the robbery as part of a plan to raise money for her Minuteman group.

Forde’s family said she talked about that idea. They also said they believe Bush was part of a home invasion robbery of a family in Shasta Lake, Calif., on June 8 in which $12,000 was stolen at gunpoint.

Minutemen leaders on Monday continued to distance themselves from Forde.

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC), said that most Minutemen and others active on immigration have long avoided Forde.

He pointed to national alerts his organization sent to members during the winter after The Herald reported on Forde’s involvement in a flurry of violence in Everett, and her troubled past.

“We did everything that was reasonable within our power at that time to exclude Shawna Forde,” he said.

Chuck Stonex of Alamagordo, N.M., earlier was a vocal supporter of Forde. Over the weekend he answered e-mail inquiries from the media on behalf of Forde’s group.

On Monday, Stonex said he’s breaking ties completely with Forde and her organization.

“This has no connection to Minutemen in any way shape or form,” he said of the Arizona killings. “In my opinion, this is nothing more than a cold-blooded criminal act. Just the fact that it was committed by two members of a Minuteman organization does not make it a Minuteman act.”

Stonex said he didn’t know Forde well, having met her on a desert patrol, and through trading e-mails and a few phone calls. He only met Bush after Forde called him on May 30 and asked him to patch up a minor bullet wound on the man’s calf.

Stonex said he was told Bush had been wounded during a desert patrol about 40 miles away. He didn’t know about the Arivaca shootings until later, and made no connection to Bush’s injury until questioned by police.

Minutemen consider people with proven connections to white supremacists or other hate groups “the ultimate taboo,” Stonex said, and they are unwelcome in border operations. Had they been known, Bush’s links to such groups would not have been tolerated, he said.

Robbery, murder and racism are wrong, Stonex said.

“I don’t want any part of that,” he said. “I am a Christian man. I want nothing to do with that kind of stuff.”

Detectives in Arizona continue to investigate, Pima County sheriff’s spokeswoman Dawn Barkman said.

“There possibly will be additional arrests,” Barkman said.

The notion that others involved in the killings may still be free is causing great concern for the Flores family and others, said a Tucson man, who described himself as a family friend.

The man, who spoke only on the condition that his name not be published, said Raul Flores “worked hard for his family … He lived for his kids, his family, his wife.”

It is true that drug trafficking and human smuggling are problems in the border community of Arivaca, but it also is a place where people care about each other and are friendly to visitors, he said.

“I give you my word as a man, if you drive this road, people will wave to you, even if they don’t know you,” he said.

Wenatchee detectives also are continuing to investigate, Sgt. Smith said. Officials are exchanging information and exploring the possibility that Bush may be connected to other crimes.

“I’m sad that other people died,” Smith said. “I’m glad that we were able to get him and tie up some loose ends here.”

These great Americans were released today!  

hat tip to Marvin