Alleged cop killer's employer charged in immigration violations

Houston Chronicle:

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a landscaping owner on immigration violations, accusing him of harboring an illegal immigrant who was later charged with capital murder in the death of a Houston police officer.

Robert Lane Camp, 47, was arrested last month on a criminal complaint that accuses him of taking significant steps to help Juan Leonardo Quintero remain on the job at Camp Landscaping in Deer Park before the September 2006 killing of officer Rodney Johnson.

Camp is charged with encouraging or inducing Quintero to enter the country illegally and later harboring the immigrant in the Houston area. Quintero worked for Camp for at least 11 years, according to an affidavit filed by the investigating immigration agent.

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The affidavit and indictment accuses the entrepreneur of a decade of assistance to Quintero. In August 1998, Camp posted a $10,000 bond for the immigrant after he was jailed on an indecency with a child charge and hired an attorney to defend him. After the worker was deported in May 1999, Camp sent him money in Mexico and later bought him a plane ticket from Phoenix to Houston after Quintero re-entered the U.S. illegally through Arizona. Camp then bought a home in Houston and rented it to Quintero, who is listed in federal court records as Juan Leonardo Quintero-Perez.

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He must of really like this guys work. He also must not care much about the rule of law. Quintero apparently could not provide a valid drivers license at a traffic stop and is alleged to have shot the officer four times in the head as he was writing up a ticket. His trial is scheduled for later this year.

The case has several interesting elements including the driver's license issue and the employer issue. Perhaps they can ask Obama and Hillary Clinton about it when they are in Houston for a debate. Quintero has apparently forfeited his path to citizenship.

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