training on it. year, fined $2,500, and ordered to pay restitution of $250. reviews, including reviews of INS program offices outside the Border Patrol. On December 27 or 28,
photograph of Resendez. employees told us that IDENT is a valuable system that should not be abandoned. use IDENT. Coast Task Force received the warrant for Resendez in early January 1999 and began
Bentons murder from the Texas Rangers, a state law enforcement agency. Both Dias and Perez told the OIG that they believed that the INS already had placed a
However, before Young completed his assessment,
(Dr. Bentons husband and two
the region report directly to him. he did not follow up on the matter. We interviewed these agents
She had 19 blunt force injuries to her head, including three depression
believe that the INS and the U.S. Attorneys Offices should consider lowering the
and entered into NCIC the same day. state police who spoke with them. Rangers linked Resendez as the alleged murderer of Dr. Benton and Mr. and Mrs. Sirnic. This diminished IDENTs usefulness in identifying
According to Saltarelli, they informed him that a warrant had been issued charging
Significantly, in 1994 Resendez was arrested by the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police for
The Customs agent said that while he was querying TECS, the NCIC database
IDENT in 1994, while the FBI still was developing its Integrated Automated Fingerprint
IDENT and voluntarily returned him to Mexico. for the FBIs Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. This is
Saltarelli told the OIG that during his meeting
Because of certain aspects of the crime scene at Dr. Bentons home, Benningfield
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. 1976. the system. "Resendiz had been trying to sell hair samples and other body parts over the Internet. Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Border Patrol Station. 37 In general, as
His fingerprints had been entered into the CAL/DOJ database
They were beaten to death with a sledgehammer, and Mrs.
Resendez. We also
Yet, through our interviews, we found that their failure to consider or use IDENT was
Three people who claimed to be relatives of Resendiz were in court and left weeping. Resendezs alien number through the INS Central Index System and determined that his
On January 5, 1999, the FBI determined that Resendez had an
managers and supervisors simply assumed agents in the field would use the policy and have
of another law enforcement agency, the INS can put a detainer on the alien. On May 27, 1999, the FBI obtained a federal warrant charging Resendez with unlawful
surprisingly, IDENT showed that on June 1, 1999 at the same time that state and
employees that they should provide him with information about cases under investigation so
As late as July 1999, the INS asserted that the OIGs recommendation was based on an
himself at a port of entry (and did not use a new alias). On
He has been charged with criminal offenses many times using a variety of aliases. Macha added that if he had made such a statement, he
A
1999, he pled guilty in federal court to theft of government funds. Resendez case has spurred the FBI and the INS, at the direction of Congress and under the
A UFAP warrant can be used to invoke federal
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But I'm tired of people using cases like hers as political props to try to justify many of Donald Trump's offensive statements, including labeling Latino immigrants as criminals, rapists and drug dealers. entered in TECS and suggested that he contact the Customs Service. Watch full . Records we obtained from the INS, the FBI, and state and local authorities
The notes do not indicate Plaskets response,
Yet, none of the INS investigators who were contacted by the law enforcement officers
to whether IDENT was a fundamentally flawed system. BOLO is included in the news portion of TECS and is sometimes placed on bulletin boards at
would have been referring only to the fact that he was getting information from the INS
reached. We do not know
That agent referred the detective to another Customs Service
In 1989, the INS began developing such a biometric system, the automated fingerprint
When questioned whether he recalled receiving a telephone
In June 1999, the FBI formed a multi-agency task force in
We were troubled by these explanations. Juliano included one paragraph about Resendez in the Weekly Intelligence Report dated
1998, she asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to submit Carlos Cluthier
said she had received informal training on IDENT from someone who had received training
Because they knew that Resendez was a Mexican citizen, in January 1999
Border Patrol agent who processed Resendez at the station did not remember him. The NCIC record noted that Resendez was suspected of
implementation and operation of IDENT, INS employees and contractors involved in training
Resendezs case (because Resendez had not reached the prosecution threshold in any
Customs research officer who received the call from the Houston police analyst told the
Macha said that Dozier explained to him that border lookouts are
The intelligence officer included information about
time, Saltarelli would give him feedback on the Resendez case. However, the INS had differing needs for its system and
records. 'A jersey for all of Texas'? The records are not clear whether he was
should be used to provide a check of all apprehended aliens for serious criminal records,
four areas: 1) improving the operation of IDENT; 2) improving training and education of
Houston several times in early 1999 seeking assistance in the search for Resendez. The detectives inquiry was assigned to a second
from the contractor. Carter said he was sure he would have told the FBI that
about enrolling aliens into the lookout database. was familiar with IDENTs recidivist database but not its lookout database. intelligence officer in January 1999. Saltarelli
Using Resendezs criminal history, he obtained some of
Customs Service employees to place a lookout for Resendez in TECS. "If there is any money from this, he is planning to donate the funds to Texas Children's Hospital, where his wife worked, for genetic research," Floreani said. For several of his convictions, Resendez received significant prison sentences. about seven miles east of the station was activated, Border Patrol agents responded to the
My sister and I were 11 years old when our mother was killed, and 19 when her killer, Angel Maturino Resendiz, was executed in June 2006, following a May 2000 capital murder conviction. clearly define the problems of recidivism as well as to immediately identify those
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. States. Resendez had not reached the threshold number of prior apprehensions for prosecution
anything from Juliano. should emphasize the standards and procedures for entering lookouts in IDENT and stress
distributed an IDENT lookout and alert policy throughout the INS. information and outstanding warrants submitted by participating federal, state, and local
A Review of the INS's Actions and the Operation of, Its IDENT Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Saltarelli provided him information more as a courtesy than anything else.35 Jennings did not recall anything specific that Saltarelli
thought to enter a lookout for Resendez in IDENT in case he was apprehended by the Border
On June 23, the BSC entered a lookout for
Saltarelli told us that after the Weekly Intelligence Report was sent to the Central
[20] this time, recalled discussing the Resendez case with Saltarelli some time in February
Her vehicle was later found abandoned 200. The writer's jury experience, which became this book, was emotional and explosive from start to finish. If the alien is
the Border Patrol to identify and track apprehended aliens, not a system that would
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. 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. attempting to enter the United States illegally or who are in the United States illegally. also described the four murders for which he was a suspect the murder in West
Customs Service, but the detectives responded that they already had done so. According to the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Houston FBI office,
memorandum to explain her actions in the matter at the request of her supervisor. We also believe
This was the alias used by Resendez when
for the information and found out that he was on leave until February 22, 1999. handling the INS part of the case.. Dozier provided him the name of a Senior Special Agent with Customs who could place a
enforcement agencies of the existence and possible uses of IDENT to aid in the
Patrol sectors communications office, commonly known as the radio room,
recalled that Saltarelli contacted his friend at the Customs Service while they were
for sufficiently training INS personnel using IDENT. were seeking to arrest Resendez. Department of Public Safetys automated fingerprint identification system (Texas
Claudia Banton, 42, appeared in court Friday one day after the Georgia woman was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly shooting Delia Johnson in the back of the. components outside the Border Patrol understood IDENT policies, particularly the IDENT
of Resendezs A-file. U.S. Customs. She also reported to the OIG that she spoke to Macha about
pattern of border crossings and location of recent apprehensions, which can provide leads
because it was a significant incident for an investigator to assist in attempting to
Dias thought the Texas Rangers and the West University
Judge William Harmon denied a request by attorneys, including a representative of the Mexican government, to delay setting the date while his case continued to be appealed to the 5th Circuit Court. In May
photograph of the apprehended alien. the FBIs NCIC database. fingerprints to identify apprehended aliens. fractures to her skull. Juliano, the INS Houston Districts intelligence officer. We
IDENTs lookout database will inevitably contain gaps. (WIN) to search for any other matches. IDENT lookout policy. volunteered to call another agent in the Customs Service, his buddy, to
the internal hold to be placed. The Houston intelligence officer told the OIG that in response he
local television and in the newspapers. The fact is, my mother, a physician and researcher, was an immigrant herself, a Peruvian on the path to citizenship. The police obtained fingerprints at Dr. Bentons home and from the
burglary/homicide in West University Place, Texas. children were away on a trip at the time.) useful if Resendez was apprehended attempting to enter the United States by presenting
Claudia Benton +94 +93 +92 +90 . developed and implemented IDENT, focused on IDENT usage by the Border Patrol. He
The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force (Gulf Coast Task Force), a multi-agency
38 The INS is
this conversation, she acknowledged that Macha wanted information about putting a
The Customs agent told the OIG that when he tried to
In
about the lookout. the WUP Police Department, told him that information regarding Resendez was available at
Weekly Intelligence Report. Join Facebook to connect with Cludia Benton and others you may know. Broderick said he did not recall receiving any response from Juliano to his offer to
The Customs agent did not recall what, if anything, he told Macha
First, a Houston police analyst contacted an employee of the Customs Service and asked her
Inspector General (OIG) examined the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS)
See also. Jeep and submitted them to several state fingerprint identification databases for
reviewing Resendezs A-file differed from Saltarellis version. in the Del Rio and El Paso Border Patrol Sectors, many agents exhibited a distinct lack of
IDENT, and what agents should do if they see them when processing aliens. Resendez. An autopsy revealed that Dr. Benton had been sexually assaulted. The Customs agent said that while he was on the telephone with the police
claimed that because Resendez was already in NCIC as a wanted person, he did not enter a
WEST FRANKFORT Every time Benton put a run on the scoreboard Monday in River-to-River Conference Ohio Division softball action, West Frankfort answered. On January 8, 1999, immediately after his conversation with Dozier, Macha contacted the
Because
divided into three regions the Eastern, Central, and Western. Houston-area Claudia Benton 39, found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her West University Place, Texas, home near railroad tracks. such telephone call. poster because Broderick frequently requested information from the field and received
fingerprints from the steering column matched those of Carlos Cluthier Rodriguez, who had
United States illegally from Mexico on the following seven occasions in 1998: Our full report provides the details of these seven apprehensions and describes the
F. The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force. and continued his criminal activities. Plasket
IDENT should be integrated with the FBIs IAFIS as soon as possible. number of deportations and inspections. Airport. A clinical geneticist, Benton had fallen asleep watching TV after a long day preparing for a presentation when Maturino Resndiz entered the houseselected at randomstabbed her repeatedly, and. Resendezs A-file to the detectives and allowed them to review it. and Carter told the OIG that he did not recall Plaskets specific response. police told us that information in IDENT about Resendezs border crossings would have
In the Central Regions Intelligence Office, Assistant Regional Director for
Since approximately 1990, when the INS and the FBI began developing their
IDENT because it was not usually working. The detectives and Saltarelli agree that Saltarelli called his friend, a Special Agent
mailed Resendezs photograph to the Central Region Intelligence employee; that
He told
acknowledged to the OIG that they obtained copies of photographs of Resendez that were
Benton. the INS had voluntarily returned Resendez to Mexico despite his extensive criminal record
According to Dozier, she thought a lookout in TECS would notify inspectors
We also interviewed FBI employees, Customs Service
this program was to apprehend and deport criminal aliens. Resendez case until June 1999.36, E. The Weekly Intelligence Report With Information on
the evening of June 1, 1999, Resendez was apprehended by two Border Patrol agents from the
Essentially, most of these INS employees
it is clear that after each return to Mexico, he re-entered the United States illegally
sharp criticism. Jeep and obtained fingerprints from it. differing recollections about their conversation. vehicle; the second was the warrant issued on January 5, 1999, in connection with the
On December 16, 1998, Dr. Claudia Benton was murdered
In particular, we found significant shortcomings in INS employees knowledge of
And
AFIS). A detective with the Harris County Sheriffs Office who was a member of the Gulf
arrested on April 8, 1999, and subsequently suspended from his INS position. The DNA evidence
surrendered to U.S. and Texas law enforcement officials at a port of entry near El Paso,
Macha and WUP Detective Sanders
with IDENT procedures. One of Saltarellis acting supervisors, David Jennings, said that from time to
The confessed serial killer was ultimately executed for the December 16, 1998, robbery, rape, and murder of Houston doctor Claudia Benton. example, training in Investigations, Detention and Deportation, or Intelligence offices
He
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. His record includes convictions in: Resendez was also arrested for additional offenses. He said that if he had received such a call from Carter he would have
Zimmermann told the judge that Resendizs previous attorney had failed to pursue his appeal properly. No one even informed the police about
Our
other database, such as NAILS, Bailey said he did not think any such suggestion was made. memorial page for Dr Claudia Gabriela Subiria Franco Benton (15 May 1959-17 Dec 1998), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76262590; Burial Details Unknown; . Dozier told the OIG that the conversation focused on lookouts in general as opposed to the
Teresa, New Mexico, had apprehended him crossing the border illegally, processed him in
In a March 11, 1999, e-mail to Juliano, Broderick offered to make an electronic wanted
because he allegedly traveled around the United States by freight train and committed
employee told the OIG that he never received the photograph. Resendez in IDENT. The
The INS should make a concerted effort to notify federal, state, and local law
records checks because Resendez had not reached the prosecution threshold in Santa Teresa. A-file. When questioned about this alleged conversation with the task force agent, Macha did
provided to the INSs Central Region Intelligence Office.38
make a wanted poster for Resendez. murders near railroad lines. entering lookouts into the IDENT database. Carter or Macha. The mission of
the police identified Resendez as the suspected murderer through fingerprints. 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. employees, and Assistant United States Attorneys who had information that was relevant to
That data is entered into the VICAP database to see
Neither
murder. We also found that
States. On February 8, Saltarelli called the Houston police analyst to notify her that the
In the Kentucky case, Christopher Maier was beaten
Prior to that, he was a special agent in the Houston
History of Houston; Houston sister city timelines: Abu Dhabi, Baku, Istanbul, Karachi, Leipzig, Luanda, Nice According to Macha, the Customs agent told him that he could put an alert
Jennings emphasized to the
warrant for Resendez shortly after it was issued in January 1999. reviewed thousands of pages of documents from the INS and other agencies, including the
largely the result of broader problems in the way that the INS implemented and monitored
whether any other cases in the database have significant similarities. You can save big on black, brown, and red mulch right now. generated a firestorm of criticism about the INSs actions. Sirnic linked these killings with the murder of Christopher Maier and the sexual assault
West University Place, Texas - On 17 December 1998. One of Resendez's fingerprints was found in the car. not recall making any such statement. In
the FBI had placed Resendez on its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives). was wrong and the INS had failed to effectively train its employees on IDENT. IDENT is
He is a Mexican citizen who has
1) With regard to the operation of IDENT, our recommendations include: 2) With regard to improved training and education about IDENT, our recommendations
Juliano to his e-mail. times, and by early 1999 he was wanted in connection with a brutal murder. and killed while he and his female companion were walking along railroad tracks near
concern that Resendez was a serial killer, on June 8, 1999, the FBI formed a multi-agency
In response, the INS
Trending. The Customs Service informed the OIG that no lookout had been placed in TECS for
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. IDENT. in IDENT to other INS text-based systems. for Resendez. voluntarily returned to Mexico each time without formal proceedings. On January 5, 1999,
about the lookout policy among the Houston investigators we interviewed, many of whom
Dr. Claudia Benton, a 39-year-old Baylor College of Medicine physician, was found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her Houston-area home located near railroad tracks on. been extremely useful to their investigation because it would have provided leads in their
investigation was being filmed for the television show Americas Most
the potential connection of the agencies systems, no agreement on integration was
Juliano told the OIG that he thought that the suggestion to make a wanted poster was a
an extensive criminal record and is alleged to have committed multiple murders in the
appropriate aliens entered into the lookout database. This INS special agent was told to
own automated fingerprint identification systems, the two agencies have discussed
known about it. This was the
increase the chance that these aliens will be detained if they are encountered by the INS. The INS also failed to provide adequate
Several said they were not familiar with IDENT at all. Brodericks e-mail suggested that the wanted poster could be sent
ordinarily check travelers leaving the country and because TECS is a name-based database,
it in the FBIs NCIC database. According to IDENT, the Border Patrol apprehended Resendez trying to enter the
Bailey said that they have looked all throughout the Central Region
enter the United States illegally do not present themselves at ports of entry. contains. Resendez in any INS database. check the records further. The WUP detectives account of their meeting with Saltarelli and their reason for
On June 30, 1999, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the INS asked the OIG to
Intelligence James Bailey and Intelligence Operations Specialist Paul Broderick were among
Among other measures, the police contacted INS investigators in On each of these seven occasions, Border Patrol agents enrolled Resendez in
Texas Ranger said he understood that the INS special agent would do so. particularly those outside the Border Patrol, had little knowledge about IDENT. Antonio, Texas. show that Resendez has an extensive criminal record in the United States, beginning in
in fiscal year 2000 JMD, the FBI, and the INS would conduct three studies to help
concluded that Resendez was a transient and probably already had fled to Mexico. These agents were not
it. OIG that she recalled the conversation, but did not recall why the lookout was not entered
the lookout database. helicopter, they apprehended Resendez hiding in the brush. good idea. Saltarelli because they had worked together on two previous investigations. Although one
10. effort to find him. emphasized that before the implementation of IDENT it was impossible to identify or keep
Broderick told the OIG that he did not consider having Resendez entered in IDENT. In the OIGs 1998 Inspection report on IDENT, we noted
the only internal hold he could think of was when an alien is in the custody
career. Broderick sent a copy of this e-mail to his supervisor, Bailey, who also
Young concluded that Resendez was a serial murderer who was going to kill again. The INS provided no training on the lookout policy, and INS
We heard various explanations from these INS employees as to why they never used IDENT
lookout database that contains fingerprints and photographs of approximately
Identification System (IAFIS) and NCIC 2000. the apprehension, he normally would neither confirm nor deny the match or even look at the
and 4) miscellaneous recommendations to address other issues we found in this review. Plasket initially responded that he did not understand that term. Joseph Sanders went to the INS Houston District Office to meet with Saltarelli. practices. the police do not need a profiler. gave Resendezs name and A-file number to Saltarelli and requested that he obtain the
Another Texas Ranger working with him on the case informed him
mentioned his previous conversation with the Customs Service agent who had agreed to place
conversation with Plasket. The police processed the
For
The Customs
The police mounted extensive efforts
the Texas Rangers wanted Resendez held if the INS came in contact with him again. 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. police analyst noted that Resendez had been apprehended previously by the INS and had an
When we asked
there was a lookout for Resendez, and apparently no one followed up on whether the lookout
contact Saltarelli again to obtain the information about the suspect, the telephone number
The son of one of his elderly female victims was also present. A-file for her. However,
of 28 Deputy U.S. Saltarelli said
placed a lookout for Resendez in its database. believed that the research officer understood she was referring to a TECS alert. experience, it often contains the names of a suspects relatives, jail records,
involved with the Resendez case, including several INS intelligence officers who learned
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