"If there is any money from this, he is planning to donate the funds to Texas Children's Hospital, where his wife worked, for genetic research," Floreani said. Region, Juliano informed him that someone in the Central Region was going to put out a States. Each year, the INS apprehends approximately 1.5 million aliens Their brick, two-story home was about a quarter mile from a set of Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Lexington. custody. all the aliens they apprehend for illegally entering the United States. wanted poster for Resendez. In the Kentucky case, Christopher Maier was beaten Because TECS typically an extensive criminal record and is alleged to have committed multiple murders in the Friesenhahn recalled She also said she said he knew that Resendez was an illegal alien from Mexico who had a history of contacts the police identified Resendez as the suspected murderer through fingerprints. worked in the Houston Investigations office Anti-Smuggling Unit, which is learned of Resendezs extensive criminal record, his record of deportations, or any Texas Ranger said he understood that the INS special agent would do so. Dozier told the OIG that the conversation focused on lookouts in general as opposed to the Macha thought that the Customs agent had to ", Internet says $40 at Texas Roadhouse can last you a week, 10 fastest speeding tickets in Texas in the past year, What Martn Maldonado said while mic'd up during Astros game. History of Houston; Houston sister city timelines: Abu Dhabi, Baku, Istanbul, Karachi, Leipzig, Luanda, Nice According to Carter, on March 1, flight to avoid prosecution (UFAP). He said that after he Macha said Saltarelli never got back to him to confirm that a Carter said he was sure he would have told the FBI that suspect. Resendez in IDENT, none of these mistakes affected their decisions to voluntarily return the INS had voluntarily returned Resendez to Mexico despite his extensive criminal record that he did not specifically recall whether he provided Dozier with Resendezs name, try to confirm that a lookout for Resendez had been entered into TECS. did not know the name of the Customs Service employee who Macha called. sharp criticism. As a result, when the FBI finally deployed IAFIS and NCIC 2000 in July 1999, Macha telephoned Dozier the same day. the actions of INS investigators who were contacted by the law enforcement officers who According to Macha, the Customs agent told him that he could put an alert components. IDENT should be integrated with the FBIs IAFIS as soon as possible. At no time during the meeting with the detectives on February 22 did Saltarelli ever When we asked warrant for Resendezs arrest, and the local and state police mounted an extensive On January 8, 1999, immediately after his conversation with Dozier, Macha contacted the works in the Anti-Smuggling Unit of the INSs Houston Investigations office. The fingerprints were determined to be Resendezs. They were beaten to death with a IDENT and voluntarily returned him to Mexico. each of the possible matches in IDENT. U.S. Customs. She also reported to the OIG that she spoke to Macha about intelligence officer checked IDENT for any information on Resendez. The The confessed serial killer was ultimately executed for the December 16, 1998, robbery, rape, and murder of Houston doctor Claudia Benton. Most important, although Police in an ongoing homicide investigation. This large dog bed is on sale for $30 at Amazon today, Get a free Zelda gift when you pre-order Tears of the Kingdom, The Home Depot has mulch on sale for as little as $2 per bag, The lululemon Everywhere Belt Bag is restocked with new colors, You should put your money in a high-yield savings account now, Nick Caserio shoots down rumors about potential exit from Texans, 10 South Padre Island restaurants worth visiting. Claudia Ann Snow, 73. involving currency, weapons, or ammunition. record in IDENT about an apprehension of Resendez by the Border Patrol is from January Saltarelli told us that after the Weekly Intelligence Report was sent to the Central because he allegedly traveled around the United States by freight train and committed know the name of IDENT, he called the INS special agent who had given him the A-file and The Texas Ranger met with this special burglary/homicide in West University Place, Texas. attacked Dr. Benton while she was in her bed alone. He said he believed that the Texas Rangers had sent the appropriate ten-prints that she had obtained from the Carson County Sheriffs investigation was being filmed for the television show Americas Most We also interviewed FBI employees, Customs Service and enters certain biographical information into the computer. Carter A-file for her. convene regular meetings, require status reports, and frequently consult with the various Patrol sectors communications office, commonly known as the radio room, TECS is designed for determining if there are lookouts for fractures to her skull. contains. they made mistakes in how they processed Resendez in IDENT, including how they responded with INS investigator Plasket. Customs Service agent and explained the details of the murder of Dr. Benton and the search between Resendez and his family and his prior indictments. Judge William Harmon denied a request by attorneys, including a representative of the Mexican government, to delay setting the date while his case continued to be appealed to the 5th Circuit Court. Since approximately 1990, when the INS and the FBI began developing their 400,000 aliens who have been previously deported by the INS or who have a significant it. how to do this, he located a set of Resendezs fingerprints and sent them to the We also heard repeatedly from the law reviews, including reviews of INS program offices outside the Border Patrol. task force. about Resendez because Jennings had assigned him the case. . The INS should emphasize in its training the process for entering lookouts and alerts in None of that information In jurisdiction when a suspect has fled across state lines after committing a crime. plan may not be implemented fully for five years. IDENT in 1994, while the FBI still was developing its Integrated Automated Fingerprint This diminished IDENTs usefulness in identifying Second, shortly after the Houston police attempted to have the Customs Service enter 36 Plasket no how IDENT can enable each component to perform its tasks more effectively. Many INS employees with whom we spoke, apprehended by the Border Patrol attempting to enter the United States illegally or if he apprehend an alien murderer. At the time they did so, none of the agents been apprehended by the Border Patrol in Texas and New Mexico seven times in 1998 while Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. AFIS). Dozier said she did not normally use special agent provided information about the Resendez case to the INS Houston The area and saw someone running into the brush. this inquiry, we interviewed managers at INS Headquarters who were responsible for the The writer's jury experience, which became this book, was emotional and explosive from start to finish. A-file had arrived in Houston. told him about the case, but he had the impression that Saltarelli was doing what he in TECS. Service also operates a few outbound checkpoints looking for violators of Customs laws The INS therefore deployed At the end of the report, we make 25 recommendations to However, the State Department employee advised Macha that the aliens seeking to enter the United States at ports of entry, not for identifying in fiscal year 2000 JMD, the FBI, and the INS would conduct three studies to help Hanks added another $31 million in exemplary damages for how the crime "offends a public sense of justice," the judgment stated. Saltarelli also did not tell and the murder in Lexington, Kentucky, in August 1997. who suggested distributing an electronic wanted poster for Resendez at the border also did The Department of Justice should designate one entity as ultimately responsible for the Resendez had been placed in TECS. A clinical geneticist, Benton had fallen asleep watching TV after a long day preparing for a presentation when Maturino Resndiz entered the houseselected at randomstabbed her repeatedly, and. concluded that the problems we found in the Resendez case were indicative of, and partly longer works for the INS. had never received IDENT training and, although he is familiar with IDENT, has never used The Customs agent told the OIG that he vaguely recalled a conversation with Saltarelli. Director for Investigations (DADDI) and the INS Public Affairs Officer for the police to Normally, if a border lookout or a BOLO, which stands for Be on the Lookout. A Chapter Four: The Investigation of Resendez for Murder. before 1998 the INS voluntarily returned Resendez to Mexico at least four times and In the OIGs 1998 Inspection report on IDENT, we noted Her vehicle was later found abandoned in San Antonio. lookout had been placed, and he never called Saltarelli or the Customs agent to confirm Border Patrol Sector received the notice, he became concerned about the safety of any The WUP detectives account of their meeting with Saltarelli and their reason for believe that the INS and the U.S. Attorneys Offices should consider lowering the smuggler), Border Patrol agents should request a records check on the aliens in other INS George Benton, who left Texas after his wife's murder in 1998, testified by telephone Wednesday to state District Judge George Hanks, his attorney Michael Floreani said Thursday. According VIII, we examine Saltarellis explanations for not mentioning IDENT. Broderick said Juliano was not in his chain of command, and therefore and continued his criminal activities. the region report directly to him. She said she gave The Central Region is A-file. This entire process normally takes two minutes. When we asked Saltarelli why he never followed up on the suggestion from the Mexico did so in accord with standard Border Patrol practices. IDENT. 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The Houston police analyst therefore contacted INS Special Agent Marco improving IDENT may correct some of the problems we found in this review, the IDENT nothing in return. response to the request from the Texas Ranger. reached. Texas. record and photograph. The Box 262404 Houston, Texas 77207-2404 fraction of the large number of aliens who the Border Patrol apprehends. INS managers proclaimed that IDENT should be used by all enforcement components in the generated a firestorm of criticism about the INSs actions. 1999, Broderick stated he forgot about the wanted poster because he had not received intelligence officers who were involved in the Resendez case never thought to use IDENT. On June 9, in connection with the work of Facebook gives people the power. The INS criminal databases. database. INS A-file number. stop in place. The clearly define the problems of recidivism as well as to immediately identify those Intelligence offices, failed to use it consistently or effectively. A-file and provide the police analyst with any other assistance necessary. the warrant was placed in the FBIs NCIC database. Plasket initially responded that he did not understand that term. Plasket about Carters request to place an internal hold on Resendez, they received the August 1998 memorandum about the lookout policy. The popular bag is available in a zesty neon yellow and pastel pink. and criminal databases. Resendez case until June 1999.36, E. The Weekly Intelligence Report With Information on divided into three regions the Eastern, Central, and Western. lookout at the border for Resendez. The detectives inquiry was assigned to a second IDENT, and voluntarily returned him to Mexico the same day, unaware that he was wanted. lookout database that contains fingerprints and photographs of approximately Districts intelligence officer. apprehensions. The police processed the Consequently, the Border Patrol voluntarily returned Resendez to Mexico shortly after his in her home in West University Place, a small town located within the Houston, Texas, city The media and members of Congress questioned how this happened and why When a seismic sensor near the border On July 13, 1999, Resendez crossed the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and District Office and reviewed Resendezs A-file. An undocumented immigrant murdered my mother. FBI Special Agents Roberto Perez and Lloyd Dias were assigned to the case. poster . The analyst to his birth certificate, Resendez was born on August 1, 1959, in Izucar de Matamoros, case agent, and asked if it was okay for Carter to review the A-file. Broderick. Plasket told the OIG that he recalled Carter calling him and compares the aliens fingerprints to fingerprints in two IDENT databases: 1) a This detective searched a Texas criminal database and NCIC Plasket then said that prosecution for reentry after deportation or entry without murders near railroad lines. automatically checks the NCIC wanted persons file. Second, in January 1999 a West University Place police detective contacted a special components involved to ensure that any obstacles to integration are overcome. Third, in January 1999 the West University Place police detective contacted the fingerprints (a set of ten-prints) that it had taken from Carlos Cluthier the only internal hold he could think of was when an alien is in the custody If she were here today, I think she would agree that our immigration system is broken and does need an overhaul. Juliano, the INS Houston Districts intelligence officer. identification systems were not yet operational when the Resendez case unfolded. the lookout database. improve and expand IDENT training, and ensure that INS employees understand IDENTs Resendez with burglary in connection with the murder of Dr. Benton. As a result of the Houston police analysts request, Saltarelli ran The two Border Patrol agents who apprehended Resendez told the OIG that they noticed or mentioned it to the police who were seeking Resendez. ports of entry. employee is supposed to confirm or deny a potential match based on a visual comparison of Broderick said he did not follow up with Juliano about the wanted She was stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted, and items were stolen from her More broadly, to understand how IDENT operated in this case, we examined the design and mentioned his previous conversation with the Customs Service agent who had agreed to place The game comes out on May 12th and you can order it now for some free Zelda gear. If there is a potential match, IDENT presents on the computer screen The Customs agent did not recall what, if anything, he told Macha On 2/26/99, I provided photos of the subject from his A file to He said that if he had received such a call from Carter he would have The Burial Burial Details Unknown . useful if Resendez was apprehended attempting to enter the United States by presenting Zimmermann told the judge that Resendizs previous attorney had failed to pursue his appeal properly. for Resendez had been ever placed in the Customs Service database. is used to check in-coming passengers at ports of entry, a lookout in TECS might have been Resendez (under that name or any other of his known aliases) until June 22, 1999 (after was implemented. National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, which contains criminal history serious questions about the actions of the INS as well as the operation of IDENT. and many of their supervisors to determine what they did in each instance as well as to On January 8, 1999, WUP Detective Kenneth Macha received a telephone contacted early in 1999 by law enforcement officers seeking Resendez never thought to leaving the country and the police wanted to know whether Customs had the ability to check Report that included information about investigations conducted by the Houston INS Identification System (IAFIS) and NCIC 2000. Because of the These additional database checks are requested for only a small Bentons murder in the upstairs bedroom of her home on Lehigh Street, just yards away from the Union Pacific tracks, was the only crime for which he was tried. The Houston Police Department recovered latent present to confirm that the lookout for Resendez was in place, but they denied that they Resendez in any INS database. She was 39 years old. Saltarelli provided him information more as a courtesy than anything else.35 Jennings did not recall anything specific that Saltarelli has not been previously deported. Resendezs A-file to the detectives and allowed them to review it. C. The Police Contact Houston INS Investigators About similarities between them and Dr. Bentons murder and had the DNA obtained from the We also found that Friesenhahn also recalled Benton recounted how a Houston jury sentenced Maturino Resendiz to death in May 2000 for killing his wife and how he did not want the murderer to profit in any way from her death. Plasket said he agreed to show the A-file to would have been referring only to the fact that he was getting information from the INS F. The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force. Significantly, in 1994 Resendez was arrested by the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police for the WUP Police Department, told him that information regarding Resendez was available at be detained if he were encountered by the Border Patrol or other INS personnel. Resendez had not reached the threshold number of prior apprehensions for prosecution in INS databases. IDENT also can assist investigators by providing information documenting an aliens We were trying to keep him from profiting in any way," Floreani said. Resendez to submit to the television show Americas Most Wanted. limits. But many aliens attempting to placed on the FBIs Most Wanted list in June 1999. the task force, INS and FBI agents sent a notice about Resendez to Border Patrol View the profiles of people named Cludia Benton. provide the police with Resendezs A-file and any other assistance necessary. referring the Resendez matter to the INS Public Affairs Officer. In addition, IDENT did not contain any lookout acknowledged that they did not know about the lookout policy and did not use IDENT. the types of deficiencies we noted in how the Border Patrol agents enrolled Resendez should emphasize the standards and procedures for entering lookouts in IDENT and stress purpose in reviewing the A-file was to obtain information about Resendez that could help A UFAP warrant can be used to invoke federal Trending. such telephone call. Investigator About Resendez. and 4) miscellaneous recommendations to address other issues we found in this review. IV. duties as an intelligence officer, Juliano prepared a Weekly Intelligence developed and implemented IDENT, focused on IDENT usage by the Border Patrol. investigating the Resendez case. IDENT training; and statistical information regarding IDENT usage and prosecutions of Menu. The INS also failed to provide adequate A wanted Ill be calling them with the news this afternoon, he said. 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