NEWS FLASH - Witnesses against Compean, Ramos fired for changing testimonies

WorldNetDaily: 2 Agents Dismissed, 1 Resigns – all 3 were previously given immunity to give a story that supporting the position the government prosecutor wanted!

Three Border Patrol agents, who were given immunity to testify against fellow agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean in the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect as he fled across the U.S.-Mexico border, are no longer with the agency because they changed their accounts of the incident several times. David Jaquez and Arturo Vasquez were terminated Jan 29 .... A third agent, Oscar Juarez, reportedly resigned from the agency last month shortly before he was to be fired. ...

According to the termination documents, Vasquez originally confirmed Compean's claim he had made a radio call asking for backup after a van driven by suspected drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila twice tripped border sensors. In court, however, Vasquez changed his story. ....

Investigation disclosed that nine other BP agents were at the location of the shooting incident, assisted in destroying evidence of the shooting, and/or knew/heard about the shooting: Oscar Juarez; Arturo Vasquez; Jose Mendoza; David Jacquez; Lance Medrano; Lorenzo Yrigoyen; Rene Mendez; Robert Arnold; and Jonathan Richards. Of the nine, two were supervisors, Arnold was a supervisory Border Patrol agent and Richards was a field operations supervisor, the senior BP officer on the field that day. Agents Vasquez, Jacquez and Juarez, were given immunity for their testimony by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's office. All three were called as witnesses by the prosecution to testify against Ramos and Compean at trial. ... [Click for more]

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