IMMIGRATION AGENTS JAIL GUATEMALAN AUTHORITIES IN HOMELAND SEEKING RETURN OF SUSPECT.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer GLENDALE - Federal immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. agents have arrested the son of Guatemala's former customs director for being in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. illegally, and authorities in his homeland want him deported to face money-laundering and embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. charges. Junior Vinicio Abadio-Carrillo, 32, lived in Glendale since he sneaked into the United States last year, and was doing clerical and general labor work for a company that duplicates Spanish-language DVDs, officials said Wednesday. ``I think it's a stellar example of international cooperation of law enforcement,'' said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for identifying and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation and infrastructure spokeswoman Virginia Kice. ``And second, I think it sends a strong signal to fugitives that we will not allow our international borders to be barriers to bringing criminals to justice.'' Abadio-Carrillo was arrested Tuesday as he drove to work, U.S. officials said. Abadio-Carrillo is accused of laundering money in a corruption scheme that bilked the Guatemalan government of some $8 million dollars when his father, Marco Tulio Abadio-Molina, was head of the agency that administers its import taxes. Abadio-Carrillo allegedly used proceeds from the scheme to acquire at least 35 vehicles as a means of money laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal. Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds. , and investigators closed several bank accounts allegedly used in the scheme. ``This is an important case for Guatemala,'' Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor Celvin Galindo said in a telephone interview from Guatemala. Abadio-Carrillo faces up to 24 years in prison if convicted, Galindo said. Abadio-Carrillo was living in a modest Glendale neighborhood of small bungalow homes and he drove a 1988 Saab, officials said. ``Think about it: If you have, in fact, stolen a lot of money and you are on the lam from the law, you don't want to do anything to call attention to yourself,'' Kice said. Kice pointed to the July arrest of a Mexican fugitive wanted in Mexico for a series of high-profile and violent bank robberies in the 1970s and 1980s. He was running a janitorial service and living in a working-class Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, community. Abadio-Carrillo's father has been in jail in Guatemala since last year on embezzlement charges. Guatemalan authorities were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the son for more than a year. They were alerted that he appeared to be living in Glendale by a report in a Guatemalan newspaper, officials said. They contacted ICE authorities, who made the arrest near Abadio-Carrillo's home with the help of Glendale police. Abadio-Carrillo is being held at an immigration detention Immigration detention is the policy of holding certain groups of unauthorised arrivals in detention until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure. facility in San Pedro, and he is expected to have a hearing within days before a judge where he will be able to contest his deportation deportation, expulsion of an alien from a country by an act of its government. The term is not applied ordinarily to sending a national into exile or to committing one convicted of crime to an overseas penal colony (historically called transportation). . ``The stereotype, of course, is that fugitives in this country ... flee south of the border,'' Kice said. ``But what we're seeing increasingly is because the world is a more fluid place, increasingly we're seeing fugitives from all over the world hiding here in the United States.'' Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ABADIO-CARRILLO |
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