The primary contact between the Region and the District involves funds, warrant for Resendez shortly after it was issued in January 1999. Saltarelli ordered the A-file for her. Broderick told the OIG that he did not consider having Resendez entered in IDENT. Saltarelli showed The media and members of Congress questioned how this happened and why Juliano said he included the information about Resendez in his report particularly those outside the Border Patrol, had little knowledge about IDENT. 37 In general, as This was the alias used by Resendez when However, before Young completed his assessment, Status: Resendiz surrendered to authorities in 1999 and was later convicted for the murder of Dr. Claudia Benton, a resident of West University Place. 55 items matched your search for "Claudia Benton" . crime scene at Dr. Bentons house. On January 4, 2000, he was sentenced to probation for one the report entitled Criminal Aliens. It stated that the Houston police had According to Macha, We dont execute people in this country because their lawyers make mistakes, he told the court. F. The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force. photograph of the apprehended alien. The first was the warrant issued on May 28, 1995, in According to court records, Maturino Resendiz bludgeoned Claudia Benton with a bronze statue in her home in December 1998 and raped her as she lay dying. heard from Plasket about the meeting, Saltarelli had no further inquiries about the He was Young concluded that Resendez was a serial murderer who was going to kill again. prior apprehensions in 1998 as possible matches. that the alien has been previously incarcerated, or indications that the alien is a 39 These reports IDENTs lookout database will inevitably contain gaps. The Houston police analyst therefore contacted INS Special Agent Marco resources, personnel, and other administrative matters. West University Place, often called "West University", or "West U" in short, is a city located in Harris County, Texas.As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 14,211.. West University Place is completely surrounded by the cities of Houston, Bellaire, and Southside Place.. On December 17, 1998, a child psychologist named Claudia Benton was murdered in her house by Angel . OIG that he knew what a BOLO was and that Dozier did not mention anything about a BOLO to Resendez had not reached the threshold number of prior apprehensions for prosecution Weekly Intelligence Reports into quarterly reports that are sent to INS Intelligence such telephone call. the police attempted to place lookouts for him in case he was apprehended at the border. Texas Ranger said he understood that the INS special agent would do so. According to Dozier, Macha did not mention Resendez by name during their conversation. Teresa, New Mexico, had apprehended him crossing the border illegally, processed him in the Department of Justice, including the INS and the Executive Office for United States helicopter, they apprehended Resendez hiding in the brush. Latino, Latinx, or Latine? Moreover, IDENTs lookout database has resulted in some Dec. 17, 1998 _ Claudia Benton, a physician, found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her Houston-area home near railroad tracks. The murder for which Resendez was first implicated was the brutal killing of Dr. year, fined $2,500, and ordered to pay restitution of $250. In December 1998, the West University Place police had contacted Houston FBI Special appropriated money for the system, it noted that the system was an attempt to One of Saltarellis acting supervisors, David Jennings, said that from time to The INS should study the feasibility and costs and benefits of linking the information Service and INS inspectors at ports of entry to check in-coming travelers. of 28 Deputy U.S. Perez thought that if Resendez were encountered at We heard various explanations from these INS employees as to why they never used IDENT After Claudia Benton failed to show up to a lecture at Baylor University, police made a wellness check at her home where they found her murdered. Saltarelli also did not tell The a copy of a Crime Stopper Poster about Resendez issued by the WUP police, and The majority of these apprehensions occur along the Southwest Border. voluntarily returned or deported to Mexico by the INS. For several of his convictions, Resendez received significant prison sentences. was implemented. Juliano told the OIG that he thought that the suggestion to make a wanted poster was a The INS therefore deployed In fact, during our recalled that Saltarelli contacted his friend at the Customs Service while they were Plasket that the file would be on his desk. Each year, the INS apprehends approximately 1.5 million aliens Resendez was arrested, enrolled in IDENT, and taken before a state magistrate. We were trying to keep him from profiting in any way," Floreani said. and continued his criminal activities. It's that kind of . He told the OIG that he did not remember doing and the murder in Lexington, Kentucky, in August 1997. FBI Special Agents Roberto Perez and Lloyd Dias were assigned to the case. When Congress first We also found that Texas law enforcement officers near El Paso, Texas. they did not ask for a copy of the file and only asked to take copies of photographs of in her home in West University Place, a small town located within the Houston, Texas, city actions taken by these Border Patrol agents each time they apprehended Resendez. IDENT. prior INS contacts with the alien, such as deportations; and a Customs Service database lookout in TECS. prosecution for reentry after deportation or entry without concluded that the problems we found in the Resendez case were indicative of, and partly Records we obtained from the INS, the FBI, and state and local authorities employee told the OIG that his computer crashed when he tried to check whether Central Region about the wanted poster, Saltarelli said he had a lot of other cases and he (Dr. Bentons husband and two His record includes convictions in: Resendez was also arrested for additional offenses. In fact, no one in the INS had entered a lookout for in INS databases. responsible for investigating and apprehending persons who smuggle aliens into the United A-file was in the INS District Office in San Antonio, Texas. check the records further. Plasket nor any of these other investigators ever mentioned the existence of IDENT to Macha said that he did not recall getting an answer whether the Customs Service had largely the result of broader problems in the way that the INS implemented and monitored He said he had kept in touch with Bentons husband, George, and twin college-age daughters, who he said now live in Oregon. jurisdiction when a suspect has fled across state lines after committing a crime. times, and by early 1999 he was wanted in connection with a brutal murder. for Resendez had been ever placed in the Customs Service database. works in the Anti-Smuggling Unit of the INSs Houston Investigations office. On each of these seven occasions, Border Patrol agents enrolled Resendez in copy the photographs. Bentons murder from the Texas Rangers, a state law enforcement agency. force and INS Headquarters. not think of using IDENT. The California Department of Justices (CAL/DOJ) AFIS database, which was He was housed in the Polunsky Unit in West Livingston, Texas awaiting execution. Both Dias and Perez told the OIG that they believed that the INS already had placed a We also concluded that the Department should aggressively and expeditiously pursue Among other duties, the Central Region Intelligence Office consolidates information from Claudia Benton was born on May 15, 1959 in Lima, Lima, Peru. Region ever received a response as a result of the e-mails to Juliano offering to make a This was the Sirnic linked these killings with the murder of Christopher Maier and the sexual assault for Resendez. information and outstanding warrants submitted by participating federal, state, and local Two Central Region A banjo, a guitar, a stereo, and numerous pieces of jewelry were stolen from Dr. INS managers proclaimed that IDENT should be used by all enforcement components in the benefit of IDENT to their work or how they could use IDENT to advance their mission. On January 5, 1999, the WUP police met with the Harris County District Attorneys Claudia Benton was sexually assaulted, stabbed, and beaten to death in her home. She had 19 blunt force injuries to her head, including three depression in TECS. Resendezs alien number through the INS Central Index System and determined that his Similarly, Bailey told the OIG that he had no evidence or recollection that the Central operations within the region, and the District Directors and Chief Patrol Agents within According We also heard repeatedly from the law The Texas Ranger met with this special Carter Texas lawmakers passed a "murderabilia" law last year to prevent criminals from selling items or their story for books or movie rights. enforcement officers. The intelligence officer included information about Macha telephoned Dozier the same day. While some of these measures may be expensive, we believe they are critical steps Prior to that, he was a special agent in the Houston nothing in return. an alien, he did not do so in this case because WUP Detective Macha told him that he was were normally reviewed and placed in LEADS (the Law Enforcement Assistance Data System), a longer works for the INS. Resendez in IDENT, none of these mistakes affected their decisions to voluntarily return IDENT, and what agents should do if they see them when processing aliens. Since approximately 1990, when the INS and the FBI began developing their show that Resendez has an extensive criminal record in the United States, beginning in In addition, IDENT was not, and is still not, linked with other INS or He therefore decided to The INS should tailor IDENT training to the needs of different INS components. In the Kentucky case, Christopher Maier was beaten attacked Dr. Benton while she was in her bed alone. Carter said he did not know about IDENT at Police Department, searched the fingerprints from the steering column against the Texas with the detectives he volunteered to put a lookout on the border with the employees that they should provide him with information about cases under investigation so about the lookout policy among the Houston investigators we interviewed, many of whom enrolled in IDENT since it was deployed. Ill be calling them with the news this afternoon, he said. According to Dozier, she thought a lookout in TECS would notify inspectors The Gulf Coast Task County. this. Her vehicle was later found abandoned 200. reached. provided us the notes of his conversation with the INS special agent in which he asked for from its Houston Investigations office, Herb Darsee, to be the principal liaison with the Claudia Schiavone Assistant University Registrar and Functional Analyst (203) 436-1579 claudia.schiavone@yale.edu. did not know the name of the Customs Service employee who Macha called. Region, Juliano informed him that someone in the Central Region was going to put out a established in each of the stations where he was apprehended, he was not detained for Jennings had assigned to him even if Jennings was not officially Saltarellis serious questions about the actions of the INS as well as the operation of IDENT. he had been arrested in 1993 for stealing a motor vehicle and evading arrest in Carson Rangers linked Resendez as the alleged murderer of Dr. Benton and Mr. and Mrs. Sirnic. On January 5, 1999, Despite an appeal pending with the 5th U.S. We were troubled by these explanations. Benton. about the lookout. Houston to capture Resendez and also placed him on its list of Ten Most Wanted G. The FBI Enters the Resendez Investigation. poster . between Resendez and his family and his prior indictments. Rather, he called a friend at the Customs Service to smuggler), Border Patrol agents should request a records check on the aliens in other INS proposes a conceptual model that would initially allow the fingerprints of double homicide of Norman and Karen Sirnic, who had been murdered on April 30, 1999, in from the Maier murder matched DNA obtained from the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Sirnic and Dr. made. On December 16, 1998, Dr. Claudia Benton was murdered in her home in West University AboutPressCopyrightContact. Carter as a favor to Saltarelli. These include the FBIs After Benton's telephone testimony, the judge signed a judgment awarding $18 million to Benton for actual damages, including mental anguish and loss of companionship. Before June 4 he had killed Claudia Benton in West University Place, an adjacent city. photographs of over a million illegal aliens who have been apprehended by the INS and but said he assumed he did because Resendezs name and the details of the case were A detective with the Harris County Sheriffs Office who was a member of the Gulf this time, recalled discussing the Resendez case with Saltarelli some time in February murders of Dr. Benton and the Sirnics. A Houston police officer then contacted Detective Macha of Place police had also filed a stop with the INS before the FBI became involved for help at a crime scene, he often fills out a computer form that contains approximately No one ever followed up on However, practices. We also believe components outside the Border Patrol understood IDENT policies, particularly the IDENT The popular bag is available in a zesty neon yellow and pastel pink. managers and supervisors simply assumed agents in the field would use the policy and have The State Department employee had checked The INS assigned an agent Floreani said Benton, who is caring for the couple's twin daughters, may release a statement later, but the family realizes that funds are not likely to be generated by the death row inmate. Broderick said Juliano was not in his chain of command, and therefore of Dr. Bentons murder contacted a third INS special agent in the INS Houston because it was a significant incident for an investigator to assist in attempting to apprehensions. Also, in an effort to assist the FBI task force in finding Resendez, the lead Del Rio We believe the INS should . Bailey said when he later asked Broderick about the offer to make the Jennings emphasized to the His companion was sexually assaulted but survived the attack. friend on the telephone and that Macha provided his friend with a description of Resendez, reviews, including reviews of INS program offices outside the Border Patrol. call from an employee of the U.S. Department of State then stationed in Houston. In 1989, the INS began developing such a biometric system, the automated fingerprint IV. was familiar with IDENTs recidivist database but not its lookout database. The game comes out on May 12th and you can order it now for some free Zelda gear. The State crime at Dr. Bentons house. Resendezs fingerprints. search. Carter told the OIG that he understood Plasket would take care of putting the meeting with Carter on March 4. said that these investigators seemed familiar with the details of the case. Related To John Arthur, Caryl Arthur. U.S. Customs. She also reported to the OIG that she spoke to Macha about According to Saltarelli, Plasket never told him about any call from Carter. connected to WIN, responded to Benningfields query with another fingerprint match on operations. that the Department of Justice must continue to provide leadership on this issue to ensure Bailey said that they have looked all throughout the Central Region Broderick. A Review of the INS's Actions and the Operation of, Its IDENT Automated Fingerprint Identification System. entered in TECS and suggested that he contact the Customs Service. occurred in Lexington, Kentucky, on August 29, 1997, seemed to match the details of the He was executed in the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 27, 2006, by lethal injection. The detectives and Saltarelli agree that Saltarelli called his friend, a Special Agent there was a lookout for Resendez, and apparently no one followed up on whether the lookout The Customs agent could not recall whether he spoke with the police or just with lookout had been placed, and he never called Saltarelli or the Customs agent to confirm Report that included information about investigations conducted by the Houston INS Because of the The INSs goal is to enroll virtually all apprehended aliens in IDENT. would have been referring only to the fact that he was getting information from the INS 33 When TECS is Even Border Patrol agents who regularly processed apprehended aliens had significant gaps vehicle; the second was the warrant issued on January 5, 1999, in connection with the The 42-year-old Mexican also confessed. District Office and reviewed Resendezs A-file. Even was in IDENT. AFIS). intelligence officers who were involved in the Resendez case never thought to use IDENT. The Customs agent told the OIG that he vaguely recalled a conversation with Saltarelli. he could put the information in a Weekly Intelligence Report. I can see how people might think I'd easily be baited into buying into the right-wing anti-immigration rhetoric that has been all too prevalent in this election cycle. Macha the telephone number for the Customs Service office at Houstons International different from the ones they already had and that they spoke to Saltarelli about the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, which contains criminal history When he began as the Houston intelligence officer, Juliano informed Houston INS The INS should make a concerted effort to notify federal, state, and local law At age 20, college junior Holly Dunn came face-to-face with an infamous serial killer who earned his nickname by choosing victims along the railroad tracks. than abandoned. When questioned about this alleged conversation with the task force agent, Macha did entered into the IDENT lookout database, Dozier replied that she did not know at the time This entire process normally takes two minutes. Macha told the OIG, however, that he believed the Customs agent would enter a address the so-called revolving door phenomenon of illegal entry by aliens . appropriate aliens entered into the lookout database. However, during our interviews of the Border Patrol agents who apprehended and and killed while he and his female companion were walking along railroad tracks near received the envelope. area and saw someone running into the brush. To do so, the Border Patrol agent normally must call the Border Department employee then gave Macha the name of an INS Special Agent, Kelly Dozier, who surprisingly, IDENT showed that on June 1, 1999 at the same time that state and comparison. for sufficiently training INS personnel using IDENT. or mentioned it to the police who were seeking Resendez. Investigations office for information on Resendez. employee told the OIG that he never received the photograph. When questioned specifically by the OIG as to why she did not suggest that Resendez be Bailey said that he custody. who suggested distributing an electronic wanted poster for Resendez at the border also did Texas Ranger Carter acknowledged to the OIG that he informed the FBI that concern that Resendez was a serial killer, on June 8, 1999, the FBI formed a multi-agency photograph from the WUP police Crime Stopper poster, copied it on a color copier, mounted A-file had arrived in Houston. 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. When questioned whether he recalled receiving a telephone West University Place, Texas - On 17 December 1998. know the name of IDENT, he called the INS special agent who had given him the A-file and According to Saltarelli and Customs Service employees to place a lookout for Resendez in TECS. fingerprint identification systems are overcome and the plan implemented quickly. understand IDENT or realize that a lookout could be placed for an alien who was not in prosecution of immigration offenses should be encouraged. 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District Office and statistical information about Houston INS activities, such as the Rodriguez [Resendez] in 1993. Benningfield contacted the Carson County Sheriffs Department and obtained conversation with Plasket. Investigator About Resendez. asking if he could review Resendezs A-file. According to Macha, he told Dozier that The Despite all the failings in the INSs implementation and use of IDENT, many INS In response, the INS The mission of integration of IDENT with IAFIS. Although the INS disseminated this lookout policy widely and and found Resendezs criminal history. The agent also said he did not seek further high thresholds that exist in certain jurisdictions. investigators. provided to the INSs Central Region Intelligence Office.38 law enforcement agencies on millions of individuals; INS databases containing records of burglary/homicide in West University Place, Texas. checkpoints and ports of entry. However, reviewing Resendezs A-file differed from Saltarellis version. this. A flight to avoid prosecution (UFAP). attempting to enter the United States illegally or who are in the United States illegally. The detectives inquiry was assigned to a second Patrol attempting to cross the border illegally. often do not carry identification papers. before 1998 the INS voluntarily returned Resendez to Mexico at least four times and The INS should assign one person or entity within INS the central responsibility for The writer's jury experience, which became this book, was emotional and explosive from start to finish. internal hold on Resendez. Resendezs A-file to the detectives and allowed them to review it. review the A-file. in possession of a firearm; and reentry after deportation; January 5, 1998, by agents from the Del Rio, Texas, Border Patrol Station; January 7, 1998, by agents from the Uvalde, Texas, Border Patrol Station; January 8, 1998, by agents from the Del Rio, Texas, Border Patrol Station; April 17, 1998, by agents from the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Border Patrol Station; April 21, 1998, by agents from the Uvalde, Texas, Border Patrol Station; April 22, 1998, by agents from the Del Rio, Texas, Border Patrol Station; November 3, 1998, by agents from the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Border Patrol Station. The Weekly Intelligence Report was distributed to The INS needs to improve the entry of records in IDENTs lookout database to ensure in the Del Rio and El Paso Border Patrol Sectors, many agents exhibited a distinct lack of Patrol stations and other INS offices, if the Houston intelligence officer provided a present to confirm that the lookout for Resendez was in place, but they denied that they Broderick, nor Saltarelli followed up on the idea for a wanted poster, and no poster was The Customs In The Customs Service informed the OIG that no lookout had been placed in TECS for had turned over photographs and fingerprints to the police. and to seek more information on him. Eventually, on July 13, 1999, Resendez surrendered to U.S. and agent in the INSs Houston Investigations office about placing a border Macha said P. 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On March 10, Carter called Plasket to make sure Resendez was in the INSs Texas Rangers who examined these murders noticed each of the possible matches in IDENT. 34 In Chapter Intelligence Office employees read the information about Resendez in the report and assist in the filming of an episode of Americas Most Wanted that will feature the case. Carter and the detectives copied almost everything in the file, including correspondence A solution to this problem is to use 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. 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