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US Used Professional Smuggler to Jail Border Agents

April 5, 2007 |

Former Border patrol agents Romos and Compean were sentenced based on key testimony from who now readily appears to be a professional drug smuggler. Information slowly but surely stacks more and more in favor of an immediate release of the former agents. This professional drug smuggler has perjured himself and is unreliable at best to be used against our border agents. From World Net Daily.

An arrest in a drug case involving thousands of pounds of marijuana brought from Mexico into the U.S. is raising anew questions about the prosecution of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who shot at a fleeing drug smuggler in a confrontation in 2005, then were convicted for that shooting and now are serving prison terms of 11 and 12 years.

According to authorities, Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez, suspected of running a Texas “stash house” where multiple loads of marijuana from Mexico were delivered into the United States, has been arrested and is being held pending trial.

As WND has reported, Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez already was under indictment on federal drug charges stemming from about 5,000 pounds of marijuana allegedly delivered to his home, mostly in 2005.

Ortiz-Hernandez also has identified Ramos-Compean case witness Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila as the man who delivered 750 pounds of marijuana to that location in October 2005 – while Aldrete-Davila was under a grant of immunity for an earlier drug smuggling operation when he encountered Ramos and Compean, and ended up with a bullet wound.

The article concludes with this section. Read on.

“Now that Ortiz-Hernandez has been arrested and indicted, Ramos and Compean should be released immediately,” Loya added. “If Sutton had told the jury about this second October load, the government’s case would have been thrown out the window. How would any jury convict Ramos and Compean if the jury knew that Aldrete-Davila, the government’s chief witness, was a liar?”

“What the documents show is that Sutton’s office let Ortiz-Hernandez operate his safe house for two years after he was first busted for drugs in March 2004,” Loya said. “Now it’s three years since March 2004 and Sutton is finally getting around to prosecuting him. How many years are we going to have to wait for Sutton to prosecute Aldrete-Davila? How many more loads of drugs does Aldrete-Davila have to bring across the border before Sutton does anything?”

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