Seat belt law trips triple murder suspect

AP/Fox News:

A fugitive from Ecuador suspected in the death of a prominent politician and two other men was arrested Saturday following a routine traffic stop, authorities said.

Christian Steven Ponce, 36, of Quito, Ecuador, was stopped Saturday afternoon in the hamlet of Palenville in upstate New York for not wearing a seat belt, according to the Greene County Sheriff's Department.

A license and warrant check showed that Ponce was wanted in Ecuador for triple homicide in 1999, deputies said. He was arraigned in Catskill Town Court and jailed without bail, awaiting extradition.

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What is missing from this report? Was Ponce an illegal alien? My guess is probably. As screwed up as immigration regulation can be in this country, it is still unlikely that it would have approved a man wanted for assignation as a legal immigrant. The next question is if they had determined that he was simply an illegal immigrant would they have detained him for deportation? Probably not, because when it comes to the rule of law immigration laws don't seem to matter to too many in law enforcement.

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