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Charles E. Gillman Company Accounting Specialist Sales and Marketing Everready Glass Sales Reps Mechanical Komatsu Equipment Co Resident Field Mechanic Administrative & Professional Jorgensen Brooks Group Counselor Administrative & Professional Tucson Urban League CEO/President Trades/Construction RANCHO RESORT MAINTANANCE POSITION Arizona / West2 Mexican men indicted in entrant killingsThe Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.19.2007
A Pima County grand jury has indicted two Mexican citizens on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two suspected illegal entrants among a group attacked in a pickup truck, authorities said.
The indictment charges Rosario Humberto Araujo-Monarrez, 21, and Martin Esrain Flores-Gaxiola, 18, each with two counts of first-degree murder and 21 counts of endangerment, Deputy County Attorney Rick Unklesbay said. The men are from Sinaloa.
The men were charged, in the indictment handed up last week, with the March 30 attack on a pickup hauling 23 suspected illegal immigrants near Green Valley — the latest of at least four fatal assaults this year on illegal immigrants.
Each defendant is being held under a $1 million bond in the Pima County jail, Unklesbay said.
The two were found within hours of the shooting at a campsite about a half-mile from the remote desert site where the attack took place. Three high-powered weapons were also found.
Both men told investigators that four men took part in the shootings, and that they were trying to seize what they thought was a smuggler's truckload of drugs, authorities said after the arrests.
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