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Justice for Tucson teen: Cross-dressing America's Most Wanted fugitive arrested in Mexico after 10 years

Even possible breast implants and dressing as a woman was not enough to hide fugitive Max Montijo-Lamadrid from U.S. Marshals.

Tucson teen Tanee Natividad was shot and killed in 2001/Photo courtesy MySpace tribute page

Lamadrid, 34, who was able to elude authorities for a decade by “assuming another identity” and moving frequently all around Mexico, was arrested Oct. 19, according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.

Noted as one of Pima County’s and America’s Most Wanted, Lamadrid had a warrant out for first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Tucson teen Tanee Natividad on Nov. 18, 2001.

Natividad, a 16-year-old Palo Verde High School student, was with a friend sitting in a car at the Jack-in-the-Box drive through at Speedway Boulevard and Swan Road when she was shot in the head.

Marshals say LaMadrid indiscriminately opened fire on the car as he believed the vehicle contained a person who had earlier shot and killed one of his friends in the restaurant parking lot.

He was wrong. Lemadrid and Natividad had never met.

Max Montijo-Lamadrid was arrested in Mexico Oct. 19/Photo courtesy Pima County Attorney website

Lamadrid spent the next decade so bent on avoiding capture that investigators thought he possibly got a boob job to better hide his identity, according to America’s Most Wanted website.

“(Investigators) believe that the murder suspect may have undergone breast implant surgery to appear more like a woman,” America’s Most Wanted noted. “They also believe that Montijo-LaMadrid habitually crosses the Arizona-Mexico border dressed as a woman.”

Lamadrid was taken into custody by the Sonora State Investigative Police, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and will be transported to Mexico City by the Mexico Federal Investigative Agency.

There he will await extradition to Pima County, pursuant to a provisional arrest warrant.

Party’s over, dudette.

[tnipoll]

What do you think?

The U.S. Marshals are on a roll this week – is that the agency you respect the most?

Why or why not?

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Let Renteria go? Second hung jury in double murder case of dad suspected of killing to protect son from molester

Daniel Renteria, the father accused of killing two men after one allegedly molested his 3-year-old son, is getting his day in court.

Daniel Renteria in TPD booking photo

Again and again.

For the second time in a row, Renteria’s trial ended in a mistrial, thanks to a hung jury.

A date for the third trial, if there is to be one, is scheduled to be set Nov. 8, KGUN-9 reports.

Unless a few mistakes are corrected and some changes made, a third trial seems likely to follow along the same lines.

Hung jury. Mistrial.

When can we just let the guy go already?

Renteria faces two counts of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of Richard Rue Jr., 40, and James “Red” Marschinke, 49, who were shot and killed March 1 while sitting in a front yard in the 5300 block of East 25th Street, Tucson police said.

Renteria initially fled the scene and burned his car, but then turned himself into police the following day.

Mistake number one – confession. Unless you have a lawyer present, which was not made clear in this case, blurting out your guts to authorities is never a good idea.

The first trial, in August, ended with 11 to 1 for conviction. The second trial, which puttered to a close Oct. 15, snapped shut with the jury deadlocked.

The defense argues Renteria shot the men in self-defense, especially since Rue threatened to kill Renteria and his son if he ran to police to report Marschinke’s alleged molestation, the Arizona Daily Star said. The prosecution counters Renteria shot unarmed men and the killings were not justified.

Evidently arguments are not strong – or convincing – enough, although the grand jury was convinced enough to lessen Renteria’s first-degree murder charges to manslaughter.

But it still indicted him for manslaughter.

Although a new jury is introduced with every new trial, all other variables are staying the same.

The most recent trial, which kicked off Oct. 6, did so with “the same judge, the same lawyers, the same witnesses, the same game plan and the same animosity,” ADS reported.

So why expect different results? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is one of the definitions of our friend insanity.

The animosity noted is not necessarily between the families of the victims and the accused – but between the defense attorney and the judge.

The Star story says the judge was not quick to offer explanations when the defense attorney asked for them. And at one point when the judge got up to leave, the defense pressed him to “make a record” for future reference if the case is ever reviewed. The judge told her to sit down and asked if he needed to call for additional security. The Star then quoted him telling her, “If you insist on this, there will be consequences to you personally.”

Mistake number two – a judge who seems to hate your lawyer.

Trials are supposed to be about bringing out the truth, but they are often more about putting on a show. The best showman, or woman, often gets the win. It has to be tough putting on a good show if the “emcee” doesn’t seem to like you.

Since no one is winning this show, perhaps it’s time for new showmen. Or a new judge. Or a new line of thinking – just scrap the thing altogether.

Of course, we cannot accurately say how we would truly decide unless we were actually on the jury ourselves, but 12 of us may get that chance if Renteria gets yet another day in court.

[tnipoll]

What do you think?

Should a third trial be set or should Renteria be let go?

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Fleeing to Mexico does not always work: Foothills murder suspect, ‘Dangerous felon’ both back in U.S. jails

Running off to Mexico not only sounds wholly romantic, but it’s long been an ideal way to evade American law enforcement.

Stop sign in Mexico/Thinkstock

Usually.

Two men found out otherwise in two unrelated incidents that landed them both back in Arizona detention facilities.

One was a U.S. citizen, found hiding out in Sonora, wanted for murder in a Catalina Foothills neighborhood earlier this year.

The other was an illegal alien trying to slip south of the border by attempting to outrun U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.

Murder suspect

Hector Ernesto Estrada/submitted photo

U.S. citizen Hector Ernesto Estrada, 33, who had a warrant out for his arrest following the April 8 homicide of 30-year-old Michael Estrada Rodriguez, was arrested in Mexico Oct. 14, according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.

Rodriguez was found shot several times and left to die in a parking lot in the 270 block of East Camino Lomas, southwest of North First Avenue and Orange Grove Road, according to the initial news release from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

One of the homicide suspects, Raymond Negrete, 31, was arrested April 27 and charged with first-degree murder. But Estrada was nowhere to be found.

In May, the sheriff’s department asked U.S. marshals to help find Estrada. The marshals, in turn, asked Mexican authorities to help last week once marshals discovered Estrada was hiding out in Nogales, Sonora.

Investigators from the Sonora State Investigative Police (PEI) located and arrested Estrada, turning him over to marshals at the DeConcini Port of Entry to await extradition to Pima County.

Estrada now sits in Pima County Jail, charged with first-degree murder and held without bond.

“Dangerous felon”

Another man trying to flee to Mexico, a 42-year-old illegal alien with a laundry list of U.S. crimes, was nabbed trying to sneak back into his home country Oct. 12, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was busted by CBP officers at the Douglas Port of Entry.

“The officers noticed the man who was suspiciously walking south toward Mexico in the pedestrian lane and stopped him for further interview,” the release said. “The man avoided the officers and attempted to run south into Mexico.”

He didn’t get very far.

Further investigation revealed the guy had been not only working in the U.S. as a marijuana mule, but he had several previous felony arrests. His past charges included battery with serious bodily injury, carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, carrying a loaded firearm in public, transport/selling of contraband, possession of rock cocaine for sale, robbery in the first degree, infliction of corporal injury to a spouse – just to name a few.

This guy went to the Florence Detention Facility to await his appearance before a federal magistrate.

So much for these two evading law enforcement – but perhaps they still have a chance for romance.

[tnipoll]

What do you think?

Are you glad when criminals are found and brought back to U.S. or are our jails too packed already?

Where would you flee to if you were fleeing a crime?

Would you attempt to outrun officers at the border?

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Murder of Thomas Tucker: Drugs, deep resentment recipe for son killing father, cousin says

The large rock found near Thomas Tucker’s pummeled skull could have been the murder weapon. Or it could have been the sledgehammer deputies noted on the porch.

Brandon Tucker was arrested in connection with his father's murder/TPD

In either case, Tom Tucker, 58, was found badly beaten Aug. 24, police records say, his body dragged from the base of a porch wheelchair ramp and left facedown in the dirt beneath a large mesquite tree in the trailer’s driveway.

A pair of sunglasses and baseball cap lay along the drag mark pathway.

His face was so severely mangled that a friend on the scene in the 6700 block of West Dogtown Road asked a deputy for a mouth breather to perform CPR.

Although Tom was breathing, barely, when paramedics arrived, he was pronounced dead soon after.

Tom’s son Brandon Tucker, days shy of his 25th birthday the night of the crime, is facing first-degree murder charges in connection with his father’s death.

“He was shaking his arms up in the air triumphantly and his arms were covered in blood,” police records quote one family member describing Brandon after Tom was beaten, “shouting that he killed his old man.”

Brandon refused a request for an interview.

“My opinion Brandon was coming off drugs, or on them, got mad at something Tom said,” said Brandon’s cousin, who wished to be known only as James. “Add 20 years of hatred – and you have a murder.”

The son: Brandon Tucker

“He was a chill person when sober,” James said of his cousin. “Always mad about something though. I was never around him when he did drugs, but I heard he was just crazy.” He named Brandon’s drug of choice as methamphetamine.

Brandon grew up in Apache Junction with two younger brothers, one younger sister – but largely without a father. Tom left his four kids behind with their mother when Brandon was about 6 or 7.

“He didn’t completely abandon them,” James said, “but would come around every few months and later on, every few years.”

Brandon’s first brush with the law was around age 12, James said, and he was “in and out” of juvenile detention facilities ever since. By the time he hit his late teens, Brandon graduated to crimes like fighting and bicycle and car thefts, James said, possibly the only graduating Brandon ever did.

“He was kicked out of high school, I believe,” James notes. “I don’t believe he ever held a regular job. He did mechanic work. He told me he would rebuild people’s engines in his garage back when he was renting a house with friends. He loved working on cars and dirt bikes.”

In addition to 12 traffic violations, Brandon’s court records on the Arizona Judicial Branch website include a small handful of criminal charges, from disorderly conduct to carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, most of which were dismissed.

They also include an order of protection filed against him in 2004 and an ongoing custody battle over one of his children with the child’s mother.

He applied for, and was granted, a marriage license to another woman in 2007, the same year he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge of assault, reckless endangerment and intent to injure. Although still in his 20s, James said Brandon already has three kids, each with a different woman.

Brandon Tucker prison file photo/AZ Dept. of Corrections

A February 2008 drug charge for possession or use of dangerous drugs and drug paraphernalia landed him a 1-year sentence in Arizona state prison.

The last time James saw his cousin Brandon was earlier this year when Brandon came to Phoenix to help James’ mother move to Denver.

“He just talked about weird things,” James said, “made strange comments. His brothers said he would act real crazy and thought everyone was against him.”

Despite Brandon’s reported rants, he did smile at a few of James’ jokes and offer him some hope.

“He said he wanted to do good and stay out of prison and had to grow up,” James said. “He talked about changing his life around.”

Several months later, Thomas Tucker laid facedown in the driveway, suffering from internal bleeding and fractures, with a rock beside his skull.

“Guess that wasn’t the case.”

The dad: Thomas Tucker

“Tom hasn’t been the best uncle or human being in the world,” James noted, “but in the last couple years I believe he was changing his life around.”

Thomas Tucker prison file photo /AZ Dept. of Corrections

A lifelong construction manager and supervisor, Tom was up for retirement after a 30-year career. His career included more than just construction-related endeavors.

Like his son, Tom had his own substantial rap sheet, including an order of protection filed against him in 1997 as well as some prison time.

Tom’s 5-month sentence in Arizona state prison was for a December 2009 aggravated DUI. Records say he was released in May.

Other entries at the Arizona Judicial Branch website include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a couple of instances of disorderly conduct, reckless burning, issuing a bad check, arson and criminal damage to property.

A dangerous drug charge for possession of equipment to manufacture is also included, as is a 2002 order to attend a parent education class. James said Tom had four children with Brandon’s mother and another son with a different woman.

Unlike his son’s records, most of Tom’s criminal charges were not dismissed.

Despite his criminal record and leaving his family behind nearly 20 years ago, James said Tom was trying to make up for past wrongs.

“He was finally being more of a father to his own children,” James said, even inviting Brandon to come stay with him at the Dogtown Road residence where he was renting a room from a friend.

“He used and manipulated a lot of his family,” James said of his uncle, “but he’d still be willing to help you build your house, or fix anything you needed.”

Tom was outgoing, and especially enjoyed keeping busy – as well as his alcohol, James said.

The last time James recalls Brandon and Tom together was about a decade ago, when James and Brandon were 15 years old.

“They would bicker,” James recalled. “Tom took Brandon’s truck and left us stranded in Springville and Brandon was pissed.”

He didn’t know if the two ever managed to get along since that incident, nor did he know how Tom felt about Brandon.

“I just know he was trying to help him in the end.”

The reunion, the murder

Once Brandon was released from prison, James said he drifted aimlessly around Apache Junction, where Brandon’s mom still lives, staying with friends and lacking any direction.

Dad Tom invited Brandon to come stay with him in Sahuarita, maybe even help him get a job. Brandon arrived at his dad’s house the day prior to the murder.

Tom was renting a room from a family friend who lived on one of three 5-acre parcels at the end of a 3-mile dirt road, James noted. Tom’s sister and her husband lived on another parcel while Tom’s niece and her husband lived on the third.

The owner of Tom’s rental room was not too keen on Brandon staying at his place – police records say he knew Brandon was trouble – so Brandon was supposed to stay with Tom’s sister, his aunt, instead.

One family member noted in police records Brandon was a “self-proclaimed white supremacist,” complete with shaved head and tattoos. It was no secret he was fresh out of prison.

Tom and Brandon had been drinking beer that evening in front of Tom’s sister’s home, police reports say, when Brandon started getting belligerent. He began insulting family members and friends who were also there.

Brandon was told he had to leave for being disrespectful, so he took off towards the family friend’s house, a short jaunt away.

The family friend told Tom he was concerned about Brandon going to his house with no one else there, so Tom went after him.

After about 15 minutes, Brandon returned. Tom did not.

While one person heard heard Brandon yelling while Tom was talking calmly, and another heard dogs going crazy barking, neither witnessed the beating. No one did.

Tom’s landlord’s girlfriend returned from getting dinner groceries to find “a tall guy with a shaved head” kicking something in her boyfriend’s driveway.

She thought he might be kicking her boyfriend’s dogs. It was instead Tom’s crumpled body.

She backed away. “When the male subject saw her, he approached her with his hand outstretched, covered in blood, and he made a statement something to the effect of, ‘Ha ha! I killed him and he’ll never beat another woman again,’” police records say.

He tried to introduce himself as his father, Tom Tucker, but Tom was the woman’s friend, as well as her boyfriend’s tenant, and she knew the man in front of her was not Tom.

She refused to shake the guy’s bloody hand.

Others were soon on the scene, including the home’s owner with a shotgun telling Brandon to get off his property.

Brandon walked off into the desert, calling Tom a “dirty bastard” and screaming, “That’s for all the times you beat my mama when I was a kid. You won’t beat her no more.”

The arrest

Deputies found Brandon about a mile away on another man’s property, high atop a 10-foot scissor lift that the man happened to have in his yard.

He did not come quietly, at least not initially, and instead screamed curses and took off his tank top to throw at one of the deputies.

Brandon was especially loud about the police dog on the scene, hollering how he did not want to be tasered or attacked by the dog.

“The suspect began to yell at the top of his lungs at me,” the deputy with K-9 said in the report. “He yelled almost every imaginable obscenity and told me that he was going to rip my dog’s head off. He stated that he was a Marine and that his hands were registered weapons.”

Deputies finally calmed him down enough so he climbed down from the lift, laid on the ground, and acquiesced to the handcuffs.

He spent the ride in the back of the deputy’s car asking for water and admonishing the deputy.

“He made comments about how my rifle, helmet and night vision on my seat were illegal,” the deputy wrote in the report. “He said those should only be in the possession of a trained helicopter pilot and helicopter personnel who were trained in flight and large artillery.”

During the ride to the station, and in subsequent interviews, Brandon denied killing his father. At some points, he even denied knowing anybody at the scene and said his father was not even around.

When a deputy pointed out the altercation was between him and someone who claims to be his father, the police report says Brandon responded with “Yeah, someone does think he’s my father,” and then said the man was, instead, a “punk a- s n- – – -r.”

The report notes, “He went on to say his real father was the sheriff of Pinal County and Maricopa County and to have him come down here and tell him he is causing trouble.”

James says deep resentment – and drugs – seems more likely to be cause for killing rather than the subject of the argument that directly preceded the homicide.

“I heard it was just an argument about cars,” James said. “Whose car was faster, between Brandon’s and another uncle’s. So all told Tom (that) Brandon has to leave because he’s being disrespectful.

“So Tom went after Brandon to talk to him and that’s when Brandon was waiting for him, ready to kill him.”

Brandon (right) with cousin James in 2010/submitted photo

[tnipoll]

Original post: Allegedly Killed by Son: Thomas Tucker, 58

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Ryn Gargulinski is a poet, artist, performer and TucsonCitizen.com Ryngmaster whose column usually appears every Friday on Rynski’s Blogski. Her art, writing and more is at RynRules.com and Rynski.Etsy.com. E-mail rynski@tucsoncitizen.com.

What do you think?

Do you have any resentments that are deep enough to be dangerous?

Have you ever exacted severe revenge?

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Sept. 11 haunts former New Yorker in Tucson: Nine years not long enough to forget

Nine years is a long time, but still not long enough to forget how I felt that morning on Brooklyn’s 69th Street Pier while I watched the first of the Twin Towers burn.

I hoped the smoke was pollution, clouds/Thinkstock

Incredulous sums it up.

Disgusted, enraged, horrified and heartsick would not come until later. Not until my mind finally let me believe it really happened.

Out there on the pier, on my usual bike ride to work at my usual stop with its unobstructed view of the World Trade Center, nothing so atrocious could be going down right across the water.

It was sunny. It was Tuesday. It was right before work. Bad things don’t happy on a sunny Tuesday right before work.

The smoke – thick white piles of smoke billowing from the side of the tower – must be pollution. Or clouds. Or a very strange trick of the autumn morning sunlight reflecting off the bay.

It was not until I got to the office and everyone was screaming and running in zigzags did I find out what all that smoke was about. A plane crashed. A tower burned.

Still later and we heard it crashed on purpose.

Then we heard more news and read more updates and saw follow-ups, investigative reports, victim profiles, tribute announcements, scale illustrations complete with points of impact, a bar graph counting the dead, scores of stories and more stories and photos and more photos and that godawful image of the towers collapsing that stayed prominently displayed on front pages for months.

I stopped reading the papers.

The city stank of death for weeks. Debris washed up on the Coney Island shore.

My parents, as New York City tourists, wanted to see Ground Zero when it was finally open to the public. We walked on covered planks they called walkways, jutting over the barren ground that once steadied the towers then cradled the wreckage.

I did not bring my camera.

The immediate aftermath made New Yorkers lovey-dovey. People helped their neighbors, hugged strangers, carried packages for little old ladies, paid cab fare for little old men. Trees out front were wrapped with American flags, yellow ribbons.

Then the paranoia set in.

Sidewalks and streets were lined with police barricades, yellow tape.

Officers in full regalia – complete with automatic weapons – became fixtures on the subways.

Bomb scares were everywhere. Trains were rerouted, closed down. Blocks were evacuated. Abandoned backpacks were weapons.

The Empire State Building installed metal detectors. Every building installed metal detectors.

It took a couple of years before I could again ride my bike to the 69th Street Pier. I still walked the Brooklyn Bridge, but always brought ID as I figured it was next.

The city never recovered.

Something had shifted deep beneath the pavement, a rift that can never be healed. A hollow permanently blasted in the skyline, a hole permanently blasted in our hearts.

It would take four more years for me to finally leave the city – but more than a lifetime to forget how I felt that sunny Tuesday morning.

Manhattan skyline seen from Brooklyn 69th Street Pier in 2007, view that used to include World Trade Center/Ryn Gargulinski

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Ryn Gargulinski is a poet, artist, performer and TucsonCitizen.com Ryngmaster who lived in NYC from 1988 to 2005. She lived and worked in Brooklyn in 2001. Her column appears every Friday on Rynski’s Blogski. Her art, writing and more is at RynRules.com and Rynski.Etsy.com. E-mail rynski@tucsoncitizen.com.

BONUS: Ryn also wrote the weekly TucsonCitizen.com editorial, slated for the Monday, Sept. 13 issue of the Arizona Daily Star – different topic, of course. Stay tuned.

What do you think?

Where were you on Sept. 11?

Was it the biggest tragedy that occurred in your lifetime?

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Jaywalkers beware: Police crackdown on bicyclist, pedestrian violations to end of Sept.

The next time you feel like darting willy-nilly across the middle of the street on foot or on your bicycle, think again.

Oops/Ryn Gargulinski

Not only does such an action put you in danger of being mowed down by a street sweeper or mini-van, but you are now in increased peril of getting a ticket.

The Tucson Police Department is in the midst of a crackdown on violations involving bicyclists, pedestrians – and motorists who disobey rules related to the two, according to a news release from the department.

The crackdown started earlier this month and will be going on through the end of September. A grant is paying for this special enforcement deployment.

Time to cut out all that jaywalking.

It’s also time to note some of the most common violations pointed out by TPD.

Common driver violations:

Not yielding to pedestrians
Not giving bicyclists at least three feet of room while passing them
Not coming to a “complete stop” at red lights and stop sign

Not looking in both directions after stopping to make sure you don’t hit a bicyclist, pedestrian or other car

Watch for peds/Ryn Gargulinski

Common pedestrian violations:

Jaywalking, jaywalking, jaywalking – Tucson has all those jazzy crosswalks for a reason
Violations of Tucson City Code 20-92: Jaywalking currently carries a $161 fine (That’s one pair of shoes, maybe two)

Not waiting for WALK signals at intersections

Common bicyclist violations:

Riding on the sidewalk
Not following same rules that apply to motorists, including riding with traffic
Not giving “appropriate” hand signals for turning and stopping
Not stopping for red lights and stop signs
Not wearing a helmet if younger than 18
Not having at least a headlight and rear reflector for nighttime riding

Some of the finest moves we’ve witnessed:

Bicyclist riding against traffic along Oracle Road dragging a small dog by the leash while the dog careened dangerously into outer lane traffic

Bicyclists hogging the sidewalk, yelling at pedestrians who are using it, like our pal belligerent bike boy

Pedestrians bolting across the street in the middle of the night, “wearing dark clothing and not in a crosswalk”

Pedestrians
flipping off or yelling at cars that refuse to stop for them when they dart out of nowhere in the middle of a car-packed street

Motorists
have way too many stupid moves to list

2009 statistics from the TPD website:

Fatal accidents, motor vehicle vs pedestrian: 8
Fatal accidents, motor vehicle vs bicycle: 2
Personal injuries, motor vehicle vs. pedestrian: 225
Personal injuries, motor vehicle vs. bicycle: 221
Property damage, motor vehicle vs. pedestrian: 36
Property damage, motor vehicle vs. bicycle: 71
Bicycle accidents: 35

Sorry, no stats immediately available on jaywalking tickets – but we did find 115 reports of road rage.

[tnipoll]

Watch your step/Ryn Gargulinski

What do you think?

Have you ever gotten a ticket as a bicyclist or pedestrian?

What about as a motorist violating rules involving bicyclists or pedestrians?

What other stupid moves have you seen bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists make?

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