Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 4, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 local Winnipeg free press sunday july 4, 2004 Borders continued from Page a1 the same month Carlos Rivera Erazo 42, was arrested and charged with smug gling illegal aliens into the . Rivera Erazo is a citizen of Al Salvador who until he was caught lived in Winnipeg. He was picked up at a bus station in grand Forks by the usop. Bonilla Montero and Rivera Erazo have already pleaded guilty. Bonilla Montero was sentenced june 9 in grand Forks to 12 months in jail. He was Given leniency because he could have evaded capture but instead returned to help the eight because he knew they were Freez ing. Some were treated for frostbite and All have now been deported. Bonilla Montero born in Costa Rica and a Canadian citizen for 22 years told court he picked up the eight illegal aliens in Montreal and helped them Cross the Border in Manitoba thinking it would be easier As there is no natural Barrier ? River desert Canyon ? other than weather to make it difficult. Authorities believe he was part of a network that stretches from Central America to Canada set up to exploit both Canadas reputation As a Haven for refugees and the desperation of Many people to flee we look at abject poverty. Everyone these cases Are just two of Many ? from Street some concluded gang member some still under investigation ? and biker being done by the gangs stored River integral listed terror de Border enforce ment team the is groups local Arm of the from Hamas joint Ibet created by Washington and Hezbollah to Ottawa in late 2002 the tamil in response to the tigers sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in new York and ? Stephen Washington. Murray the Ibet was set an intelligence up to do a better Job agent of protecting the 6,500-Kilometre .-Canada Border. The red River Ibet looks after the 470 Kilometres of Border Manitoba has with North Dakota and Minnesota or everything Between the Northwest Angle in Ontario a Lake of the Woods to the Saskatchewan Boundary. The Ibet has paired the ramp with the usop and other Canadian and Amer ican agencies that Deal with any Border Issue from organized crime groups smuggling people drugs or guns to local people smuggling cigarettes liquor Grain and even cattle. Simply the Ibet works More in the Phil Hossack / Winnipeg free press . Agent Stephen Murray on North Dakota Side of unmarked Border. Tire tracks through the ditch attest to the vehicle traffic crossing illegally. Shadows. The unit is involved in arrests Gas into a Van full of people not from the in International Falls made a pitch to the Man on fire were arrested feb. 25 in but spends More of its time doing sur area to the Farmer who has spotted Homeland Security department to train Walhalla n.d., after they hiked across veil Lance work not Only along the Bor some tire tracks or footprints on a Field More Border patrol agents who work the Border near Winkler. Der but anywhere they can pinpoint the or Access Road. Along the Border. Training would include an earlier one was july 15 a year ago beginning of a scheme to illegally Cross we know we re not going to do this things like drawing and firing a gun when police in Emerson arrested a 29?into the . Without help from the locals Aitken while wearing a heavy Parka in the win year old Man on a freight train As it the focus is to not Only prevent a says. People remember sept. 11, and Ter learning to drive a snowmobile or crossed into Canada. Crime but uncover any hint of a terror they understand the nature of National crossing ice and Snow in trucks or cars. The Man had been labelled a potential is intrusion into the . Security and organized crime. Aitken and Murray also say the nature dangerous offender by Ontario police we Don to target just Middle Eastern and they understand that if they see of their work will never change illegal because of a history of sex offences and people says Stephen Murray an Intel something out there at three of clock in aliens will continue other violent crimes. He had jumped a licence agent and 20-year Veteran with the morning it sure in to a Guy Harrow Ousby try to find weak train on the Prairies hoping to go Back to the usop. We look at everyone from ing his spots to slip across As Eastern Canada but he ended up in min every Street gang member and biker gangs to besides the human element the Ibet will drug smugglers Neapolis instead. Listed terrorist groups from Hamas also uses technology to track and trap going South or gun single he was arrested As he headed Back Hezbollah to the tamil tigers. Smugglers. Runners heading across the Border. trigger with the people smuggling in the Remote sensors North. These Are the kinds of people who Winkler area they were from Central both Aitken and Murray say Remote still they be had an gets a Are moving across our Border Aitken America Murray says. It could have sensors have been placed strategically Impact in the past response says. Easily been a group of subversives out along the Border to Monitor illegal Cross year. Three Canad Aitken and Murray also say they Hope even if its Ings from trucks people cattle or Deer. Ans have been arrest the successes Over the past year will his partner mountie Dean Aitken the sensors Send a signal to a usop de crossing into North wildlife to increase although their work will rarely agrees. He did not want his face Pho office and a ground or airborne unit is Dakota and Mineso determine if Ever be credited. To graphed because of the nature of his dispatched right away to intercept. Satel to allegedly ferrying their primary Job is to gather Intelli work. Lite technology is also being used. Large amounts of mar Validity gence and put it to use. To criminals they Don to care How they there Are methods of electronic sur Ijuana including a the More you dig the More you find make a Buck whether its cocaine to our veil Lance Murray says. They Are very Canada Border ser Stephen Aitken says. You can to Stop it from Hap Murray kids or smuggling known criminals or effective and there is Only going to be vices Agency officer pening but you can detect it and Stop it terrorists Over they Don to care As Long As More of them. Every single trigger gets May 13. In two cases happening they make a response even if its wildlife to deter police knew they any intelligence you gather might Murray and Aitken say what they rely mine were coming and waited for them to not be used until five years Down the on most for information other than Intel recently the University of North Cross. In a third the Man had travelled Road Murray added. The real bad Guys licence from other police agencies Are Dakota announced a plan to create a $10-All the Way from British Columbia Only have taken local knowledge about the tips from the Public who live along the million . Homeland Security initiative to get caught by an Alert usop officer Border and turned it against us. There Border area. It can be anything from a to find and plug holes in the Border using last aug. 8 with 85 kilograms of pot. Can to be any Slack Call from a country Motel owner sushi aircraft advanced sensors and other in another Case two men wanted in Cious of some guests the kid pumping technology. At the same time officials Abbotsford . For allegedly setting a. Ken Bowman research award or. Roberto Bolli Louisville Usa John Foerster distinguished lecture award or. Ernesto Schiffrin Montreal Vincenzo Panagia distinguished lecture award or. Madhu Anand Srivastava Montreal Arnold Naimark Young investigator award or. Satoru Hirono Niigata Japan Henry Friesen Young scientist award is. Kelly Regula Winnipeg Jack Litvack exemplary service award or. Thomas p. Thomas Winnipeg or. Jacqueline St. Yves award or. Yingwei Wang Edmonton Manitoba heart and stroke foundation award is. Melissa Dent Winnipeg to. Edward Cuddy award for summer students is. Annette Kostenuk Winnipeg James s. Mcgoey award for summer students or. Inderjit Singh Winnipeg the world class chefs of the Winnipeg convention Centre treated guests to a very special gourmet dinner. From Winnipeg a Folk arts Council there was the rousing entertainment of the Wuhu Institute chinese lion dance and the Orlan ukrainian Folk ensemble. The Institute of cardiovascular sciences is most appreciative of the kind contribution of medicare inc. And the support of or. Albert Friesen. Anand Srivastava award Winner from Mon Realor. Harpal Buttar health Canada Ottawa Public forum speaker award Winner or. James Mcgoey or. Jerry Barwinski hear care award Winner visiting professor Onkar Tripathi Lucknow India and or. Rizal Sarraf Cadegan Isfahan Iran Public forum speaker ;