By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The Yakima Herald-Republic writes about what 38-year-old Refugio Jose Vazquez-Tellez has been doing the past eight years since he went on the lam after allegedly fleeing a Centralia apartment where he broke a beer bottle over man’s head and slashed and stabbed him with it.
Vazquez-Tellez was captured in Mabton where he had been living under the alias Manuel Vasquez-Escalante since 2004 and established a new life, job and family, according to the Centralia Police Department.
He was featured on America’s Most Wanted in 2009 and earlier this month Mabton police followed up on a tip that led to his arrest, according to Centralia police.
He was brought before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court last Monday where bail was set at $75,000 for the first-degree assault charge.
Authorities believe the fight at a South Pearl Street apartment on June 26, 2004 was related to Vazquez-Tellez and another man getting “ratted out” over a stolen bicycle.
Vazquez-Tellez pleaded not guilty on Thursday and a trial date was set for the week of Oct. 29, according to news reporter Ross Courtney.
Read more here.
What part of the paragraph was not true Lamas? Washington and New Mexico are the only 2 states where illegals can obtain a driver’s license without being asked “Is that birth certificate real or fake”? Also this is the second person in 2012 that was apprehended for a violent crime Centralia PD investigated and the hispanic suspect hid under a new identity. Remember the cold case murder where the bad guy was in California working as a mirgant worker?
I JUST WANT SAY KEEP THAT SHIT TO YOUR SELF F YOUR SELF
With what money do we document? What money to enforce the laws on the books? What money to ship them home?
I totally agree with LaMigra!! Immigrants should be documented heavily!! ^ – ^
Isn’t it upsetting how a illegal/ undocumented alien can commit such a violent crime and then vanish into a small community under a newly founded identity? I am willing to bet that if we finger printed all illegals in Lewis County alone we would find numerous criminals that have obtained new names after commiting crimes and/ or being deported under their birth names. It is amazing how easy it is for illegals to get a new birth certificate and driver’s license in the State of Washington. Keep hugging the thugs Gregoire.