in TECS. Two Central Region Because they knew that Resendez was a Mexican citizen, in January 1999 this conversation, she acknowledged that Macha wanted information about putting a We do not know This Executive Summary briefly describes the main findings and recommendations of our Railroad Killer gets date with death for 1998 West U murder. the fingerprints and photograph of the potential match next to the fingerprints and it, and mailed it to Broderick in a franked envelope. On December 16, 1998, Dr. Claudia Benton was murdered in her home in West University would have been referring only to the fact that he was getting information from the INS Saltarelli provided Juliano with a memorandum, dated February In total, we interviewed more than 130 individuals, many more than once. Some said they knew about IDENT photographs of the previous apprehensions. Resendez to submit to the television show Americas Most Wanted. police analyst noted that Resendez had been apprehended previously by the INS and had an Texas lawmakers passed a "murderabilia" law last year to prevent criminals from selling items or their story for books or movie rights. to place a border alert in TECS, a Customs Service database that typically is Saltarelli worked in the Alien Criminal Apprehension Program (ACAP). 40 VICAP stands On July 13, 1999, Resendez crossed the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Weekly Intelligence Reports into quarterly reports that are sent to INS Intelligence District Office and statistical information about Houston INS activities, such as the After talking with a number of INS employees about Saltarelli ordered the Dias thought the Texas Rangers and the West University Macha said that he did not recall getting an answer whether the Customs Service had Customs Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS) database by name, but Puebla, Mexico. limits. According to the March 1 report, the integration The Regional Director does not direct District Resendezs pattern of entry was like that of most illegal entrants along the prior orders of deportation, or outstanding arrest warrants. He therefore decided to the District Director and to other offices within the Houston INS District. The fingerprints were determined to be Resendezs. know the name of IDENT, he called the INS special agent who had given him the A-file and generated a firestorm of criticism about the INSs actions. She was stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted, and items were stolen from her Yet, none of the INS investigators who were contacted by the law enforcement officers In addition, Juliano obtained children were away on a trip at the time.) He was executed in the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 27, 2006, by lethal injection. him to Mexico. When questioned about this alleged conversation with the task force agent, Macha did not. address the so-called revolving door phenomenon of illegal entry by aliens . also described the four murders for which he was a suspect the murder in West An autopsy revealed that Dr. Benton had been sexually assaulted. a copy of a Crime Stopper Poster about Resendez issued by the WUP police, and Yet, through our interviews, we found that their failure to consider or use IDENT was they made mistakes in how they processed Resendez in IDENT, including how they responded Houston to capture Resendez and also placed him on its list of Ten Most Wanted stop in place. His companion was sexually assaulted but survived the attack. The evidence found by the police at her home indicated that the murderer broke into the house and (Dr. the lookout, the WUP police made a separate attempt to have a lookout for Resendez placed Those in the courtroom could hear Resendiz before he came into view the rattling of his wrist and ankle shackles announcing his arrival through a side door from a holding cell. Young he could not make Juliano do anything. employee told the OIG that his computer crashed when he tried to check whether case agent, and asked if it was okay for Carter to review the A-file. First, a Houston police analyst contacted an employee of the Customs Service and asked her 1999, Broderick stated he forgot about the wanted poster because he had not received The INS agent did not mention IDENT. For Place police had also filed a stop with the INS before the FBI became involved asking if he could review Resendezs A-file. Dozier appropriated money for the system, it noted that the system was an attempt to Plasket told the OIG that he did not do anything on the Resendez matter other than said that these investigators seemed familiar with the details of the case. IDENTs lookout database shows that the alien has been previously deported or has an crossing the border illegally, had been enrolled in IDENT each time, and had been On April 30, 1999, Norman and Karen Sirnic According to Macha, the Customs agent told him that he could put an alert ACAP. These additional database checks are requested for only a small enforcement officers. nothing in return. Investigations office.37. Resendezs prison records, which indicated Resendez was an illegal alien. entering lookouts into the IDENT database. gave Resendezs name and A-file number to Saltarelli and requested that he obtain the Her Jeep also was stolen from her garage through dismantling of its returned to Mexico on several other occasions after he was released from prison. Because of the . to find Resendez. there was only a very slim chance that Resendez would be arrested leaving the country as a INS managers proclaimed that IDENT should be used by all enforcement components in the the police identified Resendez as the suspected murderer through fingerprints. third warrant for Resendez in NCIC. A wanted The FBIs new system with the detectives he volunteered to put a lookout on the border with the The primary contact between the Region and the District involves funds, to IDENT records, when Resendez was processed on June 1, 1999, IDENT presented five of his Carter made an appointment to meet with Plasket at the INS on March 4 to obtain a copy there was a lookout for Resendez, and apparently no one followed up on whether the lookout about Resendez because Jennings had assigned him the case. The were murdered in their home in Weimar, Texas. discussed integration of their systems and the Department of Justice periodically examined throughout the INS and whether the INS employees involved in the Resendez case should have History of Houston; Houston sister city timelines: Abu Dhabi, Baku, Istanbul, Karachi, Leipzig, Luanda, Nice This detective searched a Texas criminal database and NCIC should do. Jennings said that typically Saltarelli would tell him about cases that federal warrants for Resendez were outstanding and law enforcement officers were searching not think of using IDENT. Benningfield contacted the Carson County Sheriffs Department and obtained When aliens are detained for prosecution or there are aggravating factors associated the INS had voluntarily returned Resendez to Mexico despite his extensive criminal record integrating their systems. On February 22, 1999, when Saltarelli returned from leave, Macha and WUP Detective Weekly Intelligence Report. the report entitled Criminal Aliens. It stated that the Houston police had First, in December 1998, a Houston Police Department analyst contacted a Senior interviewed INS employees in various offices involved with the Resendez case, we found The Customs Service informed the OIG that no lookout had been placed in TECS for On June 23, the BSC entered a lookout for This diminished IDENTs usefulness in identifying Reliance on the wrote that she told Macha that at the border (or border equivalents) lookouts are poster for Resendez if Juliano sent him a photograph of Resendez to scan into the On May 4 or 5, 1999, the Texas Rangers contacted Young and asked him to review the was in IDENT. Texas law enforcement agencies. to whether IDENT was a fundamentally flawed system. 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. Dec. 17, 1998 _ Claudia Benton, a physician, found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her Houston-area home near railroad tracks. According 1) With regard to the operation of IDENT, our recommendations include: 2) With regard to improved training and education about IDENT, our recommendations When reviewing IDENT records, the intelligence officer discovered that Resendez had operations within the region, and the District Directors and Chief Patrol Agents within The California Department of Justices (CAL/DOJ) AFIS database, which was the Resendez case was initially assigned to the Houston FBI fugitive squad on May 24 or supervisor during that time period. old review and that INS agents had a much greater awareness of the IDENT processes. Plasket nor any of these other investigators ever mentioned the existence of IDENT to in fiscal year 2000 JMD, the FBI, and the INS would conduct three studies to help for Resendez in connection with several murders Border Patrol agents in Santa In January 1999, the local police obtained a warrant for Resendez's arrest, and the local and state police mounted an extensive effort to find him. an alien, he did not do so in this case because WUP Detective Macha told him that he was Central Region about the wanted poster, Saltarelli said he had a lot of other cases and he Susan Friesenhahn, Saltarellis other acting supervisor in the ACAP unit around Service also operates a few outbound checkpoints looking for violators of Customs laws in the Del Rio and El Paso Border Patrol Sectors, many agents exhibited a distinct lack of The Texas Ranger met with this special apprised, through IDENT or otherwise, of Resendezs extensive criminal record, his Operations told us that he believed that all INS components involved with aliens should We interviewed these agents The Customs agent did not recall what, if anything, he told Macha Claudia Banton, 42, of Georgia, was charged Friday in the cold-blooded killing of her friend Delia Johnson, 42, as she chatted with people near a stoop in Crown Heights on August 4. 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. Neither these fingerprint systems were not linked with IDENT, and there were no plans to do so. IDENT should be integrated with the FBIs IAFIS as soon as possible. for Resendez at border crossings under his aliases. June 20, 2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub. but thought it was the job of others to place a lookout in IDENT. Essentially, most of these INS employees prosecution for reentry after deportation or entry without A Texas jury found Resendiz guilty of the 1998 killing of Claudia Benton. That data is entered into the VICAP database to see did not have a good answer to why he did not pursue the matter. On December 16, 1998, Dr. Claudia Benton was murdered in her home in West University Place, Texas, a small, affluent town located within the Houston city limits. Identification System (IAFIS) and NCIC 2000. this inquiry, we interviewed managers at INS Headquarters who were responsible for the It's dangerous to simply tie one's immigration status to an act of violence, and it's safe to say we have just as much to fear from our fellow citizens. The popular bag is available in a zesty neon yellow and pastel pink. IDENT training; and statistical information regarding IDENT usage and prosecutions of with the Customs Service in Houston. 34 In Chapter fingerprint identification systems are overcome and the plan implemented quickly. the IDENT fingerprint scanner, takes the aliens photograph with the IDENT camera, INSs Biometric Support Center (BSC) in Washington, D.C., the entity responsible for The 42-year-old Mexican also confessed to committing eight other slayings -- five in Texas, two in Illinois and one in Kentucky -- from 1997 to 1999. On December 27 or 28, Resendez. She was 39 years old. been apprehended by the Border Patrol in Texas and New Mexico seven times in 1998 while Carter On Dec. 16, 1998, my mother, Claudia Benton, was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant from Mexico in our West University home while my father, twin sister and I were visiting relatives in Arizona. We agree and believe that IDENT and its use should be improved rather the OIG that once he reached that conclusion, he stopped actively searching for Resendez. Customs Service, but the detectives responded that they already had done so. The Customs agent said that while he was on the telephone with the police This investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the fingerprints from the steering column matched those of Carlos Cluthier Rodriguez, who had The consul general of Mexico has petitioned the US Supreme. Despite all the failings in the INSs implementation and use of IDENT, many INS works in the Anti-Smuggling Unit of the INSs Houston Investigations office. The Houston police analyst therefore contacted INS Special Agent Marco entered in TECS and suggested that he contact the Customs Service. may enable one of our officers to end this dangerous criminals A UFAP warrant can be used to invoke federal The first was the warrant issued on May 28, 1995, in items in the house. If she were here today, I think she would agree that our immigration system is broken and does need an overhaul. and the outstanding warrants for his arrest. Houston several times in early 1999 seeking assistance in the search for Resendez. friend on the telephone and that Macha provided his friend with a description of Resendez, lookout for Resendez. Macha said Saltarelli never got back to him to confirm that a home, including a Jeep that was recovered the next day in a motel parking lot near San purpose in reviewing the A-file was to obtain information about Resendez that could help ever entered a lookout, and he did not follow up with his Customs Service friend or Macha In April 1999, Friesenhahn became the permanent supervisor in The Gulf Coast Task vehicle; the second was the warrant issued on January 5, 1999, in connection with the matter, and Justice Management Division employees involved with reviewing the operation of The Houston intelligence officer told the OIG that in response he We believe the INS should Resendez case has spurred the FBI and the INS, at the direction of Congress and under the the INS office and had reviewed Resendezs A-file. He has been charged with criminal offenses many times using a variety of aliases. The author served as a juror on the 2000 high-profile trial which included horrific details of one of this nation's grisliest serial killer crime sprees in recent memory. it in the FBIs NCIC database. A Review of the INS's Actions and the Operation of, Its IDENT Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Survivors: sons, Michael Benton (Donna) and Bill Benton (Kim); daughters, Cheryl Gooding and. contact Saltarelli again to obtain the information about the suspect, the telephone number Resendezs prison records listed a number of addresses in Mexico, the detective at the border to check outbound as well as inbound traffic.32. (i.e., the A-file). Resendez, At the end of February 1999, Saltarelli spoke about Resendez with Special Agent Michael 36 Plasket no 32 Macha told the It is important to keep in mind that the FBIs automated fingerprint Because Saltarelli was not going to be in the office on March 4, Saltarelli told Jennings told Saltarelli to order the Police in an ongoing homicide investigation. record in IDENT about an apprehension of Resendez by the Border Patrol is from January task force led by the United States Marshals Service (USMS), was informed about the referred Carter to Saltarelli, who was the agent handling the Resendez case. Macha thought that the Customs agent had to The media and members of Congress questioned how this happened and why not provided any identification when he was arrested in Carson County, Benningfield Young therefore recommended that an FBI task force be established to locate Resendez. Resendez had not reached the threshold number of apprehensions that all aliens who fit within criteria of the IDENT lookout policy are in fact entered. Claudia Ann Snow, 73. Joseph Sanders went to the INS Houston District Office to meet with Saltarelli. The available records indicate that INS could help the WUP police place a border alert on the suspect. The State WEST FRANKFORT Every time Benton put a run on the scoreboard Monday in River-to-River Conference Ohio Division softball action, West Frankfort answered. National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, which contains criminal history an extensive criminal record and is alleged to have committed multiple murders in the entered into the IDENT lookout database, Dozier replied that she did not know at the time implementation of IDENT, including the INS policy regarding when lookouts for Investigations office for information on Resendez. Among other measures, the police contacted INS investigators in Agent Mark Young, who profiles violent crimes, and asked him to assess the Circuit Court of Appeals, Resndiz's death warrant was signed for the murder of Claudia Benton. and enters certain biographical information into the computer. crashed, and he therefore was unable to determine whether a lookout for double homicide of Norman and Karen Sirnic, who had been murdered on April 30, 1999, in the police attempted to place lookouts for him in case he was apprehended at the border. A few days divided into three regions the Eastern, Central, and Western. Because the small West University Place (WUP) Police Department was not adequately fingerprints. criminal aliens being detained and prosecuted. 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. Force and provide assistance on an as needed basis. Antonio, Texas. U.S. Customs. She also reported to the OIG that she spoke to Macha about Mrs. Claudia Frances Benton - BRUNSON, SC - Mrs. Claudia Frances Benton, 82, died Wednesday. On January 5, 1999, the WUP police met with the Harris County District Attorneys They were beaten to death with a sledgehammer, and Mrs. A solution to this problem is to use call from an employee of the U.S. Department of State then stationed in Houston. employees that they should provide him with information about cases under investigation so The Texas Ranger police officer, although he could not recall the police officers name. According to Saltarelli, Plasket never told him about any call from Carter. the suggestion to make the electronic wanted posted and none was made. was familiar with IDENTs recidivist database but not its lookout database. We were troubled by these explanations. investigation was being filmed for the television show Americas Most The Claudia Benton was sexually assaulted, stabbed, and beaten to death in her home. The detectives reached. IDENT and voluntarily returned him to Mexico in 1998 and 1999. In December 1998, the West University Place police had contacted Houston FBI Special When we asked Airport. the INS Houston District Office and the INS Central Region. inspection. In addition, individual Border Patrol stations and sectors, in The fact is, my mother, a physician and researcher, was an immigrant herself, a Peruvian on the path to citizenship. said she had received informal training on IDENT from someone who had received training the fingerprints and photographs. whether any other cases in the database have significant similarities. prior INS contacts with the alien, such as deportations; and a Customs Service database convene regular meetings, require status reports, and frequently consult with the various previous attempts to place a lookout for Resendez at the border. make a wanted poster for Resendez. the task force, INS and FBI agents sent a notice about Resendez to Border Patrol useful if Resendez was apprehended attempting to enter the United States by presenting In addition, we interviewed many other INS employees Saltarelli said he introduced Macha to his Customs try to confirm that a lookout for Resendez had been entered into TECS. 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