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Woman charged with running down Revere man arrested in New York
By adamg on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 3:34pm
Milena Johana Henao Giraldo was arrested last week in New York on charges she plowed into a Revere pedestrian and then fled on Dec. 31, 2006, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Massachusetts state troopers are expected to return her to Boston today; she is expected to be arraigned on charges of motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of an accident causing death on Monday in Suffolk Superior Court.
According to the DA's office:
Evidence developed during the 2007 investigation by State Police and Suffolk prosecutors indicates that [George] Azarian was crossing Ocean Avenue at the Shirley Avenue crosswalk when Giraldo – behind the wheel of a silver 2000 Dodge Intrepid registered to a friend’s mother – struck him in the second southbound travel lane and continued without stopping, Conley said.
Investigators use an enhanced photo from a city surveillance camera mounted nearby that showed a car about to hit Azarian to determine the car was a silver Dodge Intrepid made between 1998 and 2004. They then checked the records of every single such car in Revere, Chelse and Winthrop.
"It was classic, shoe-leather detective work," DA Dan Conley said, singling out Trooper Joel Balducci for his dogged work to locate the car and identify its driver. "Where high technology left our questions unanswered, Trooper Balducci dug in and kept searching." Balducci traveled to New York last week to question her after she was arrested.
Surveillance photo taken seconds before Azarian was run down, from the Suffolk County DA's office:
More details from the DA's office.
Earlier:
Wanted for killing a man with her car.
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Hit & Run
Any information on this woman's immigration status?
Take this test
Take this test first, see if you pass, and then you can start worrying about everyone else's immigration status.
Woohoo!
Great link. I got 13 out of 14!
(But then, I don't think anyone else's immigration status is my business, so yeah...)
And the relevance of that to a hit-and-run is ... ?
He probably thinks she
He probably thinks she should be deported to Puerto Rico, like the idiots on the comment threads at the Boston Herald. :-)
Well...
And the relevance of that to a hit-and-run is ... ?
1) Is this another check in the column of murders committed by illegal immigrants? We won't know unless someone asks.
2) Illegal immigrants can't get drivers licenses. Perhaps that's why she fled?
Just off the top of my head...
Not a 'murder'
Murder requires intent to kill. People who commit vehicular homicide rarely have such intent. She is not being charged with murder.
I do not understand what relevance her immigration status has to whether she committed the crimes she is actually charged with -- vehicular homicide and hit-and-run. I would be very surprised if the prosecution presented it as evidence.
It's nothing more than very thinly veiled racism.
I seriously doubt questions about her immigration status would even be asked if she had a more "Anglo" name.
Not cool
Finding out which crimes are committed by ILLEGAL immigrants is important. I suggested a couple reasons why.
My wife is a LEGAL immigrant. It's not racism, and you do no credit to yourself by loudly assuming such in a public forum.
If she drove without a license
then the DA can add that to the list of offenses she is charged with. Her immigration status is still irrelevant. I doubt that a judge would rule it to be admissible evidence.
Legal Immigrants Commit Crimes Too
So do people with "foreign" names who were actually born here and are citizens. Immigration status is irrelevant with regards to guilt/innocence. It only factors into what is to be done with the person who has been convicted. Legal immigrants will often get jail and then deportation for the more serious offenses.
That Entwistle guy who allegedly killed his wife and baby was a legal immigrant.
I would offer this counter assertion about "criminality" of illegal immigrants: I would bet it is lower because people are avoiding all contact with the legal system if they are not legally here. The statistics are gathered - particularly since most illegal immigrants who are arrested are summarily deported, even for traffic tickets.
Yep, that holds true from my experience
Most of the people I know who are undocumented (and I've known an astonishing amount who suddenly got a letter saying their employer filled out a line wrong on their work visa or something, making them no longer "legal" until they sort it out) take very deliberate steps to abide by laws. Most of them know the laws better than I do. A lot of them don't drive, don't drink, don't jaywalk.
If my personal experience doesn't do it for you:
A 2007 study by the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) found that immigrants, whether legal or illegal, are substantially less likely to commit crimes or to be incarcerated than U.S. citizens.
At the same time that immigration—especially undocumented immigration—has reached or surpassed historic highs, crime rates have declined, notably in cities with large numbers of undocumented immigrants, including border cities like El Paso and San Diego.
Incarceration rate for native-born men in the 18-39 age group was five times higher than for foreign-born men in the same age group.
The point is that illegal
The point is that illegal aliens shouldn't have the opportunity to commit crimes and wouldn't have it if immigration laws were properly enforced. Illegal aliens simply shouldn't be here.
Do I really need to point
Do I really need to point out how many more crimes are committed against Americans by Americans than by undocumented immigrants?
Go for it
1) Your point does not counter mine.
2) There are probably about 15-25 times as many Americans as there are illegal aliens.
3) It could be that Americans criminally victimize illegal aliens more often than the other way around, yet the latter still have no business being here.
4) Please do "point out how many more crimes are committed against Americans by Americans than by [illegal aliens]." I like numbers.
statistics to be taken with a grain, or several, of salt
No, my point doesn't counter yours. I made my point poorly, which is that many anti-immigrant folks (not necessarily you specifically) seem to think that crime would magically go away if we just stopped letting those darn furreners into our country. The numbers I have are, admittedly, rather mushy, due to the sources where I saw them not citing their own sources.
The GAO agrees (according to wikipedia) that there are around 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The total population of the U.S. is 303,000,000. This means there are about 35-40 times as many Americans as undocumented immigrants (if I did my math correctly).
I saw a statistic, posted by Representative Steve King of Iowa, that stated: "eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day - a total of 2,920 annually." Of course, he didn't say where he got that number.
Approximately 300,000 American children, according to www.stopitnow.com, are sexually abused every year. This is horrific. So why focus on the 1% that are allegedly abused by immigrants and not the 99% who apparently are abused by other Americans? (For clarification, I think 100% of these children should be in treatment and 100% of perpetrators should be harshly punished [although that doesn't take into account when both perp and victim are children, but that's not the point right now]).
If I may ask, when did your ancestors arrive in this country?
Credit where credit is due...
There were other cops involved in this case and worked just as hard to solve it. Too bad Dan 'the con-man' Conley doesn't give them credit as well.
This officer Balducci has a history of threatening women when he interviews them. Lets see if this comes out in trial.
Its no secret that he also has a misdemeanor for assault.
Many of Conley's staff have records themselves, seems those are the types he likes to hire.
Welcome to the new America
Welcome to the new America gringo's.
Update: Ordered held in lieu of $250,000 cash bail
Apparently, Suffolk Superior Court Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson considered her something of a flight risk.