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May 3, 2007





Suspected double murderer, rapist arrested in Idaho Falls








IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A suspected double murderer from Mexico was arrested here yesterday during a joint operation among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U. S. Marshals Service, Idaho State Police and the FBI.





Joel Randu Escalante-Orosco, 32, has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Mexico for raping and murdering his sister-in-law in Chihuahua, Mexico. He's also the prime suspect in a similar rape and murder of a single mother that occurred earlier in Phoenix, Ariz., in March 2001. Escalante-Orosco and the Phoenix murder were highlighted on the "America's Most Wanted" television show.





Escalante-Orosco was arrested at 7:30 a.m. at his apartment in the 1800 block of 16th St. in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Federal agents had received a tip that Escalante-Orosco was in the area, and that there was a warrant for his arrest on murder charges in Mexico.





"This significant arrest further demonstrates to criminal aliens that they cannot use the United States as a haven from justice," said Jeffrey Copp, special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Denver. "The various law enforcement agencies that teamed up to investigate and execute this arrest represent law enforcement cooperation at its best." Copp heads a four-state area that includes: Idaho, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming.





Escalante-Orosco is currently in ICE custody on immigration violations. ICE is processing him for deportation back to Mexico. However, ICE is also working with Phoenix law enforcement to first determine the status of murder and rape charges there. The U.S. Attorney, District of Idaho, has accepted the case to criminally prosecute Escalante-Orosco for illegally entering the United States.





This arrest is part of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI), a comprehensive multi-year plan by the Department of Homeland Security to secure America's borders and reduce illegal migration. Under SBI, Homeland Security seeks to gain operational control of both the northern and southern borders, while re-engineering the detention and removal system to ensure that illegal aliens are removed from the country quickly and efficiently. SBI also involves strong interior enforcement efforts, including enhanced worksite enforcement investigations and intensified efforts to track down and remove illegal aliens inside this country.








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Are you safer now? I.C.E. is doing its job?
i don't know if we're safer, but i feel alot better knowing they are starting to do their jobs we Americans pay them to do.
Reply:thanks, i have noticed they are changing their id's and posting in others names. it was done to me last week. i hope they go away. Report It

Reply:One scum bag off the street.Funny I dont feel any safer ,how bout you bother ?


Is raping your sisterinlaw another family value ?


Just thought Id ask.
Reply:Drop in the bucket on a lot of levels.
Reply:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNbhh2R6...
Reply:Like one person said it is a drop in the bucket on so many levels. The fact that he was a criminal was the problem not his immigration status.
Reply:Simply put.. no not really...





A better question is, if he had not raped and killed anyone, how long would he have been here before he was deported?