Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, was arrested this morning at an El Paso border
checkpoint on drug charges. Davila, the drug smuggler who was shot in the
buttocks by El Paso Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean
in 2005, was arrested at the International Bridge at Zaragoza Mexico also known
as Ysleta Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas this morning, officials with the
U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Davila was arrested by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the
Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General on a sealed
indictment charging him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute
marijuana, and with possession with intent to distribute marijuana in September
and October 2005.
These alleged drug-related incidents occurred after Davila was shot in
February 2005 near Fabens Texas and after he was given immunity to testify
against Ramos.”
United States Attorney Johnny Sutton confirmed today that
twenty-seven-year-old Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested at the Ysleta Port of
Entry in El Paso, Texas. Aldrete was indicted on October 17, 2007, by an secret
El Paso federal grand jury on two counts of possession with the intent to
distribute a controlled substance, one count of conspiracy to import a
controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to possess a controlled
substance with intent to distribute. His initial appearance is set for tomorrow
at 2:30 p.m. (MST) before United States Magistrate Judge Richard Mesa.
According to the indictment, beginning on or about June 1, 2005, through
November 30, 2005, Aldrete and his co-defendant Cipriano Ortiz Hernandez
conspired to import and to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100
kilograms of marijuana. Additionally, on September 24, 2005, and then
again on October 22 and 23, 2005, Aldrete-Davila did possess with the
intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
Almost three years ago, in the Texas desert southeast of El
Paso, the two U.S.
Border
Patrol agents allegedly fired 15 bullets at a suspected
drug dealer who was fleeing on foot toward the border.
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, was that Mexican national who was
hit once in the buttocks but made it across the Rio Grande
River, which is the international border separating the
United States and Mexico.
AP Photos/The El Paso
Times, Ruben R. Ramirez
Jose Alonso Compean
(left) and Ignacio Ramos arrive Jan. 17,
2007, at the federal courthouse in El
Paso, Texas, to surrender to
authorities.
The agents who fired their weapons, Ignacio Ramos and
Jose Compean, were sentenced to more than a decade in prison
for firing on an unarmed man and then trying to cover up the
crime.
For the prosecutors and the jury, the shooting of Osvaldo
Aldrete-Davila was a clearly unlawful use of force. But the
conviction of Ramos and Compean was just the beginning of
the agents' story. Within months, they had become the center
of a dubious political crusade that would energize the
furthest reaches of the right, dominate one of CNN's most
popular news programs, and persuade a quarter of the U.S.
House of Representatives -- and one prominent Democratic
senator -- to reject the findings of a federal court.
Sources:
United States Attorney Johnny Sutton
El Paso border Patrol
Drug Enforcement Administration
Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General
El Paso Police Dept
El Paso Sheriff' Office
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