13 Marines named Perez arrested at border
Fox News reports that 13 illegal aliens tried to cross the border dressed in Marine uniforms, each wearing a “Perez” name tag and riding in what appeared to be a government van with government plates;
The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif., border officials said. Two U.S. citizens in the van also were arrested.
After the suspicious white van was subjected to secondary inspection, it was determined that the driver of the vehicle and its front seat passenger were U.S. citizens who were attempting to smuggle 13 illegal immigrants into the United States.
Nice try, guys. Less luck next time.
TSO Adds: This is sort of a “no shit there I was” that may implicate me in the Perez-swarm. Back in like 1999 or so my battalion did a rotation as OPFOR augmentees at NTC in Barstow. So we fought in the box for like 10 days or so, then were given a day pass, with explicit instructions not to leave a 80 mile radius. Not being geography experts, we assumed that Tijuana was inside that margin. So my platoon sergeant rented a van, we got a Mormon kid to be DD, and we headed off in search of a donkey show.
Well, one thing led to another, and we didn’t make it to the bingo parlor…anyway, we got trashed. Really trashed. Still couldn’t find a donkey show. My most vivid memory was a buddy giving a stripper $20 to put her clothes back on. As the night was winding down we were headed back to our car when one of my troops (now a 1SG) took a leak on a building. The Federales were on us in seconds, confiscated all of our ID’s and told us it was $200 fine for each of us. Having imbibed the last of our cash, we huddled off to the side.
Now, one of the guys was COMPLETELY passed out. We were carrying him. His name was O—– Perez. Scout Sniper (used to be with SF in Colorado) and of some Hispanic origin. Not kinda drunk, I mean completely incapacitated. After our quick huddle, we buddy lifted him and ran like hell for the border, with Federales yelling at us to stop. So we hit the border at a full sprint, and the border guards just waved us through. We told them we had our IDs taken, and they said “Yeah, that’s what happens in Tijuana.”
The next day in formation the colonel was just chewing our asses. At some point our Platoon Sergeant responded to something about us being total dumbasses by saying “Hooah.” Wrong answer. The colonel, in words I can still hear said, “No sergeant Mathews, this is SO not Hooah.”
We always wondered what happened to our IDs. And now at last we know what happened to SGT Perez’s.
Category: Illegal Immigrants, Phony soldiers
Name tags and no medals?
These illegals aren’t doing Stolen Valor right…….
No coffee cups even?
I can’t wait to read about this on Duffle Blog.
No coffee cups even?
I can’t wait to read about this on Duffle Blog.
The license plate was stolen off of a government vehicle on an active installation, and the occupants were in federal uniforms and had federal equipment (the duffel bags in the back), with the intention to impersonate U.S. service members during the commission of a criminal act, they are in violation of the Patriot Act and should all receive a one-way ticket to Gitmo.
Pretty sure they can be summarily shot as spies.
The Obama administration will probably put out a press release telling us what great patriots they are and release them to live freely in the US.
They will also all get POW Medals and back pay, and go through a “reintegration” period.
Hell, they’ll make them citizens, after all, Obama wants them to ENLIST, because illegals are so much better than Americans.
They figure that our own phonies, frauds, and liars can get away with it, so why not them. Hey, Tom! What do you say about this? I guess they’re just exercising their right to lie. It’s no big deal, right?
Even though that article is from 2011, it still shows the need to “Trust but Verify”.
You know this story is more than 3 years old, right?
I do now.
It is new to me so I don’t care that it is three years old.
Well, that’s a new one! Semi-creative, too, bless their hearts.
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Funny about those donkey shows. We did a TEWT to Fort Huachuca around 89-90. TEWT renamed PENIS by the LTs (Practical Exercise Not Including Soldiers) We ventured into Nogales, drank much, ate much but could not find the donkeys and we asked everyone.
Airborne: lived out that way for a number of years, but never heard of a Nogales donkey show. Only such shows I ever heard of were in Juarez and Tijuana.
Never been to either Juarez or Tijuana, so I can’t say with certainty that those even existed.
Juarez,Yes. 1972 BTDT
CLAW131: Juarez was the one about which I heard a (supposedly) firsthand account, so I was reasonably certain that one existed. Wasn’t with the guy who saw it, so couldn’t confirm it myself though.
Specifically, the night/Oh Dark thirty hours of 29/30 April 72 after the Elton John Concert at the Sun Bowl.
Nogales didn’t need donkeys.
They had Maria…..
We were travelling cross country in 1957 heading for my pops new duty station in the Presidio of San Francisco. We stopped for the night in El Paso and Pop decided we should go over to Juarez for a good meal. So the six of us, Mom, pop, me Aged 10 , and my two little brothers and newly adopted little sister went in search of a “Good” restaurant. We were all walking down the sidewalk when a guy literally grabbed us and forced the whole gang into the “New Florida Club”. My pop tried to resist but he was assured “Good Food, Family Place”. We were seated, waiters appeared, drinks were ordered. The lights dimmed and on the stage a mostly naked woman appeared and was tied to a post. At that point a man in a gorilla suit started to molest the woman. As fast as we were swept into the “New Florida Club” our exit was even faster. We must have left before the Pony showed up. I never heard either Mom or Pop mention the incident again. I did, however visit the “NFC” again during a TDY to El Paso in 1968. It had had a fire, never rebuilt, but still open! It had the same show I had seen as a 10 year old kid. I later told my Pop that we had left the show too early and that it had gotten a lot more interesting after the Gorilla was finished.
Funny. Especially since there was a very good restaurant called “La Florida” in Ciudad Juarez. Best chiles rellenos ever! It was still there in the mid-80’s.
btw, we nearly crossed paths – Dad left the Presidio in 1956 and we made trek in the opposite direction.
It seems Mexicans are as obsessed with US Marines as VWP is obsessed with children(damn sicko). This incident this in addition holding Tahmooressi hostage just proves it.
Three years old does not detract from the humor of it. On the same page as this story is one about a cancer survivor whose bucket list included riding a horse on a beach in Wales. Well, she did it, sorta kinda. She fell from the horse and, despite her wearing a helmet, she died from a head injury. I think that’s funny as hell. (Dies during bucket-list activity.) I guess that makes me a bad person.
I guess it’s over three years old, but it’s new to me, so…
Border agents grew suspicious when they instructed the “Marines” to conduct a police call, and they whipped out their cell phones and dialed 911.
Hated picking up cig butts. I never smoked, but sure as hell picked up cig butts.
When I was a little kid, and we played “Army”, we wanted to make it as realistic as possible, so we would pick up candy cigarette butts.
I hear that their excuse was that they missed the exit…
As an update to what has transpired during the last 3 years: 5 have been elected to Congress, 2 are Senators, 3 have jobs as city councilmen in California, 1 is a Chief of Staff for a big city mayor, and the other 2 are in charge of a tunnel in El Paso. Looks like America has been very, very good to them…
Infiltrating while posing as our military?
Enemy combatants. Gitmo time.
I’m sure they all reside in the United States now with California drivers licenses and received numerous small business loans without even having applied or own a business.
Merica!
Here’s something else that hit the news today:
A truck driver was rolling through the border’s security checkpoint in Texas when he caught this refreshingly honest conversation with his iCam glasses.
In the description of his clip on YouTube, he said, “I asked the question and got the truth!”
Border Patrol Agent: How you doing? U.S. Border Patrol. How many people on board?
Travis Pope: Me
Border Patrol Agent: U.S. citizen?
Travis Pope: Yeah, but does it really matter?
Border Patrol Agent: Not anymore, unfortunately. Thank you.
YouTube Vid:
At least the Border Patrol Agent was honest. It’s depressing, but he was honest.
Sad part is he’ll probably get an earfull for being honest.
Hmmmmm I wonder how they’d feel if the just turned them over to the Marines to see if they could take Basic.
That checkpoint is not too far from my place. They make a lot of good busts there.
TOW,
Ive been through it a few times, as recall they have at least one “floating” checkpoint on the west bound 8. They have the ability to pack it up and they have at least a 25 or 30 mile area they set it up in. Part of it is a lift that they can raise up a good 40 feet in the air so they can use visual aids to spot cars dumping off illegals to get around the checkpoint. They even have Night vision. One time I was coing back from Texas with my wife in a rented van and we had a flat. Within 5 minutes we had 3 border patrol vehicles there. Nice guys, helped me change the tire.. Better than AAA.
13 is definitely not a lucky number. I knew I remembered another story like this from a few years ago…
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/22/report-13-illegal-immigrants-apprehended-marine-uniforms/
Sometimes the old tricks are still not good ones….
I wonder why Fox News felt the need to report on this when it happened in 2011?
The Fox site says 2011, its not re-posted at Fox.
I wonder what happened with the investigation.
I’m betting a former Marine or one on active duty at the time had something to do with it. The Stolen license plate that was altered really tipped it off.
Whoever set it up went as far as staging sea-bags in the back area ( probably holding the illegals property.
They actually didnt “cross the border” like that. They were already in the interior and caught at a checkpoint. It’s a bit easier to sneal across East of San Diego, bu there is really nothing there, so they want to get towards the coast so they can get up the 5 or the 15 ( which also have a checkpoint.
They weren’t even wearing real uniforms. Velcro nametapes and shoulder stripes? Not Marine utilities. The government plates is troubling though.
Back a few years ago, they caught two Marine recruiters in South Texas using their GOV bringing guys across the border. They just couldn’t resist the easy money.
Why is this a story? They are not going to be sent back even if they were naked with toilet bowl lids on their heads.
I remember one story my Dad told me from when he was a prosecutor during my early rug rat/yard ape days about an illegal alien that he had in custody then (early 70’s) they called the USBP, whose response was “Call us back once you have a bus load of ’em!” – *CLICK!*.
BREAKING NEWS … Mexico:
A legit US Marines Corpes Gunny SGT stationed in El Shitholeeoo Mexico says, “me 13 mariners went missing on me, I hopes day is OK, USA be berry berry good for them”. “We wish them good luck with the immigration process”, said Gunny SGT Perez.
I think this story might be fraudulent. If it doesn’t grunt or say the word ‘fuck’ at least once per sentence, it isn’t a real Gunnery Sergeant.
Hey now, I resemble that remark…
Hussar the care bear-lusting Sparkle Pony glitter-farting tinsel mouse troll claims to have been a Marine, could he/it have been one of those in that van named “Perez”?
Why does the title of this post sound like the beginning of a bad joke?
🙂