Fri, Sep 05, 2008
 An arrest warrant has been issued for Ismael Padilla Contreras, 38, a citizen of Mexico, by the Pima COunty Sheriff's Office. He is described as a Hispanic male, 5’6”, 130 lbs. with black hair and brown eyes. He was last known to reside in the 3800 blk. of East Baseline Road in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo: Pima County Sheriffs Office) Arizona Daily Star
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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.29.2008
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has obtained an arrest warrant in connection with a shooting in the Catalina Foothills that left two men dead and another seriously injured.
Ismael Padilla Contreras, 38, is wanted on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the April 5 shooting, according to information from the Sheriff’s Department.
Contreras is a Mexican citizen and he is described as 5-foot-6, weighing 130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He was last known to reside in the 3800 block of East Baseline Road in Phoenix.
As many as five men may have been in a southbound BMW sport utility vehicle on North Swan Road on a Saturday night in April when shots rang out inside, said Sgt. Jesus Lopez, head of the Sheriff’s Department’s homicide unit.
The SUV crashed into a guard rail at Swan Road and East Calle del Pantera, and witnesses saw a man, possibly one of the shooters, leave the scene.
When deputies arrived, they found three men — two dead and one with life-threatening injuries — according to James Ogden, a Sheriff's Department spokesman.
Roberto Enrique Martinez-Vielledent, 30, and Paul Alberto Maldonado-Ortega, 29, both from Sonora, were killed, officials said.
The Sheriff’s Department would not name the wounded man but El Imparcial, a newspaper in Hermosillo, Sonora, has identified him as Orlando Ulloa- Escalante. A search warrant affidavit filed in Pima County Superior Court identifies him only as Orlando Ulloa.
According to the affidavit, several days after the shooting Ulloa told investigators he and two friends met two other men to conduct business regarding the sale of several vehicles.
As Ulloa drove his silver BMW SUV south on Swan, the two men ordered him to stop, the affidavit says.
Ulloa told investigators a man in the back seat shot Martinez-Vielledent and Maldonado-Ortega, and a man in the front passenger seat shot him, according to the affidavit.
Several cell phones, including one that may belong to the shooter, were found in the SUV, according to the affidavit.
The Pima County Medical Examiner also received phone calls after the shooting from family members of Contreras, according to the affidavit.
Those family members said Contreras had gone from Phoenix to Tucson to conduct a drug deal, the affidavit says.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tip line of the Pima County Attorney’s Office.
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