“Together with our partners in the armed services and law
enforcement, we will never abandon our heroes,”
“I hope that today’s sentence brings a small measure of
comfort to the families of Mr. White, Mr. Ball and the brave Navy personnel
wounded in this attack.”
U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch said after the sentence.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2014-05-09/story/jacksonville-based-ncis-cold-case-team-key-solving-terrorism-slayings#ixzz32A320TL7
El grupo terrorista llamado Macheteros que tanto dolor causaron
a los familiares de las víctimas a las cuales asesinaron en ataques terroristas
en las décadas de los 70 y los 80 en Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico, uno de sus
miembros, no reconocido hasta ahora por la izquierda jurásica boricua tuvo su
día en corte con la ignorancia total de la prensa en la isla para publicar lo
que no le conviene a sus aliados.
Sólo el Caribbean Business lo publicó. https://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/sentencing-in-1979-sabana-seca-ambush-navy-continues-decades-old-probe-97025.html
May 14, 2014
Los Macheteros Investigation and Conviction
Now 78 years old, Juan Galloza Acevedo had pleaded guilty last July to racketeering conspiracy, with predicate acts of murder conspiracy and robbery conspiracy for helping to plan and carry out the ambush.
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“This case was made difficult by the fact that the group
operates in secrecy, using code names and disguises, said NCIS Special Agent,
Tim Quick. "We couldn't get anyone to cooperate, so it was hard to put
together.”
Así son, la muerte del líder machetero Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
en manos del FBI, fue titular en todos los períodicos especialmente en Claridad
pero en estos días el juicio de uno de sus miembros no es noticia en Puerto
Rico, pero como este blog los tira al medio, pues aquí está la noticia con
todos sus detalles.
Juzgue usted...
Sentencing in '79 Puerto Rico ambush comes after decades of
investigation
May. 18, 2014
NavyTimes.com
Justice had eluded 18 unarmed sailors gunned down in a
terrorist ambush in Puerto Rico for 34 years.
No more.
Sailors and survivors gathered May 8 in a federal courthouse
in Brooklyn where Juan Galloza Acevedo, a former member of the violent
separatist group Los Macheteros, was sentenced to five years in prison for his
part in the 1979 attack.
And the Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents who
cracked this cold case aren’t finished yet. Though they could not go into
detail, the agents told Navy Times that investigations continue today.
The attack
Eighteen sailors on Dec. 3, 1979, boarded a yellow bus at
Sabana Seca and headed to a communications transmitter on Puerto Rico’s east
end. This routine was well known to Los Macheteros, a militant group devoted to
obtaining independence for Puerto Rico through violence. Their acts included
murder, robbery and using Cuban-supplied rockets to blow up eight National
Guard jets and attack two federal courthouses.
The militants, having studied the route for weeks, executed
a classic ambush that fateful morning, investigators said. Acevedo was in the
passenger seat of an ambush van parked along the base’s perimeter. Two spotters
alerted the terrorists as the bus drew near.
About half a mile from the base, a pickup truck pulled in
front of the bus and blocked both lanes of traffic once the bus was adjacent to
the ambush van. The sailors were unknowingly trapped in a kill zone.
The van door flew open to reveal three armed gunmen. One
held a Thompson submachine gun, one had an AK-47 and the third had an M16. The
latter was responsible for killing the bus driver, which he did in swift
fashion. The shooters were told the sailors would hit the deck, and they were
instructed to fire along the black stripe on the bus’s side, painted at floor
level, to kill as many as possible.
Radioman 3rd Class Emil White and Cryptologic Technician 1st
Class John Ball were killed in the attack. Ten more were wounded, some gravely.
Among them was Chief Cryptologic Technician Warren Smith, who ordered the
sailors to take cover as he braved the machine-gun fire. He jumped into the
bloody driver’s seat and rammed the bus through the obstacles to get back to
the base.
Smith was later awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for
his actions and a Purple Heart for his wounds.
A congressional report on terrorism described Juan Segarra
Palmer, a Los Macheteros leader who helped organize the attack, as angered
because the “results should have been more severe” — an outcome only disrupted
by Smith’s actions.
That report came in response to the 1999 pardon of Palmer by
President Clinton. Palmer had not been charged in relation to the shooting, but
he was serving time for his role in a 1983 Wells Fargo depot robbery in
Connecticut, one that saw robbers make off with a then-record $7 million, and
would trigger an investigation that uncovered the first leads into the bus
attack.
The hunt
Not long after the Wells Fargo robbery, a rocket was fired
from a vehicle at the federal courthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Investigators soon learned that the two events were connected, and both were
linked to the bus ambush.
The robbery involved 19 people and was led by Víctor Manuel
Gerena, who has spent more time than anyone on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.
Gerena is believed to be in Cuba.
While the Justice Department was able to track down the
robbery conspirators, the ambush case soon went cold, and remained in limbo
until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks birthed a renewed focus on prosecuting
terrorist activity. Lou Eliopulos, director of the NCIS Office of Forensic
Support, NCIS Special Agent Tim Quick and FBI Agent Doug Jones were among a
team that tackled what Eliopulos called a “very difficult and very challenging
cold case.”
Their first trip to Puerto Rico took place in 2002.
Investigators in the years that followed determined 13 people were directly
involved in the attack, including those who ordered it, financed it, organized
it and carried it out.
Some participants have died. The person who drove the pickup
truck was murdered in 2002, and one of the shooters was killed in a
drug-related homicide, Eliopulos said.
The team also connected Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a fugitive
from justice, to the bus attack. Having shared its findings with the feds,
agents from the FBI’s San Juan field office on Sept. 23, 2005, surrounded Ojeda
Ríos’ home in the outskirts of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. He was killed, and two
agents were wounded in the shootout that followed.
Acevedo was first interviewed in 2006. NCIS agents had a warrant
to obtain a DNA sample to compare with evidence obtained from the ambush van.
“I don’t think he was really surprised, to be honest,” Quick
said. “There was a little remorse. He was remorseful when it happened because
he left the group shortly after the ambush. He denounced the violence of the
group. I don’t know why he was in the van if ... they were going fishing that
day. They had automatic weapons. He should’ve known what he was getting into.”
While they knew they had one of their men, it would take
repeated interrogations and investigation before agents had enough evidence to
bring the case to prosecutors.
The prosecution
Acevedo, now 78, will serve five years for racketeering
conspiracy with predicate acts of murder conspiracy and robbery conspiracy
relating to his role in planning and carrying out the ambush.
Quick said it was “the highlight of [his] career” to be in
the courtroom with John Ball’s widow, Ball’s daughter and injured sailors Allen
Bush and Warren Smith when the sentence was read.
“There are sailors who were wounded in this attack who
underwent significant surgeries,” Eliopulos said. “Those individuals, every
time they look in the mirror, they remember Dec. 3, 1979. Being able to answer
their questions about who did this to them and why they did it was incredibly
important.”
In honoring their fallen shipmates, the command described
Ball as “a practicing Christian, a runner, a man who gave and loved, a man
dedicated to health and to life. His personal relationships were full and rich;
his marriage, close and strong, was strengthened the more through the marriage
encounter group to which John and Patti belonged.”
Emil White was described as “a giver, a friend, a person
whose willingness to help and whose interest in base morale and welfare
enriched us all. The tragedy occurred; the lives are lost. But our community
can never lose the friendships, the help, the love they gave to us.”
The command named its enlisted club after White and its gym
complex after Ball, according to base literature.
“Thirty-four years ago, terrorists carried out a coordinated
and cold-blooded attack on a U.S. Navy bus carrying 17 enlisted sailors in
Puerto Rico,” NCIS Director Andrew Traver said in a prepared statement. “The
court’s sentencing of one of those responsible provides some measure of justice
for slain Navy Petty Officers John Ball and Emil White, the 10 other Navy
personnel wounded in the attack, and their families.
“I am deeply grateful to our NCIS personnel and partners
from the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office who have remained committed to this
case and have persevered for decades in pursuing those responsible for this
crime.”
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| El Grupo Ferré Rangel COQUI, COQUI, COQUI José A. Delgado Are you there? |
Triste y vergonzoso acto criminal que por muchos años la
izquierda se ha adjudicado por su lucha independentista. En estos días sentencian a cinco
años de prisión a uno de ellos olvidado por la izquierda jurásica, que poco
sabemos de él y que pasó con su vida durante 34 años.
Los próceres de la izquierda tienen las manos manchadas de
sangre, así les enseñó su maestro Jedi, Fidel Castro, para ellos la vida de los
demás no vale nada y es por eso que Venezuela se ha convertido en el país más
violento de América.
De Cuba no tenemos estadísticas pero poco a poco nos
enteramos de su paredón de Fusilamiento dirigido por el Che Guevara. Ese
personaje místico que crearon y que se convirtió en el símbolo más emblemático
de la propaganda embrutecedora con la que atosigan a los estudiantes, artistas
y cuanta figura pública existe para llamar la atención sin darse cuenta que
ofenden a las víctimas de estos asesinos.
Juan Galloza Acevedo tuvo su día en corte, observaremos si
se convierte en otro “prisionero político” la cual desde Cuba se dirigirá la
campaña para que la izquierda internacional lo declare heroe “natzional” y
aboguen también por su libertad.
No me extrañaría.
Otra mancha con que tenemos que cargar los que creemos en la Estadidad en la historia política puertorriqueña, que sólo podemos orar por la víctimas y sus familiares para que perdonen a estos delincuentes y sentir vergüenza ajena por tanta mezquindad en nombre de una supuesta libertad que está muy lejos de ser justa para los muchos que viven en el sistema más retrógrado que puede existir, el socialismo, que BTW, bastante salvaje que es.
¿Pedirán perdón y mostrarán
arrepentimiento algún día?
No creo, su consigna es
Socialismo o Muerte.
Y bien que lo practican.
Such is Life!
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Mayo 20, 2014
En el END publican la noticia un día después y como mi deber es decir las cosas como son aquí está el enlance para que usted llegue a sus propias conclusiones.
