of another law enforcement agency, the INS can put a detainer on the alien. the lookout, the WUP police made a separate attempt to have a lookout for Resendez placed
own automated fingerprint identification systems, the two agencies have discussed
visitor records, and correspondence, which could provide leads to his whereabouts. asking if he could review Resendezs A-file. This Executive Summary briefly describes the main findings and recommendations of our
placed on the FBIs Most Wanted list in June 1999. The Customs agent said that while he was on the telephone with the police
good idea. Click here to refresh the page. their home in Weimar, Texas. The Houston police analyst therefore contacted INS Special Agent Marco
case agent, and asked if it was okay for Carter to review the A-file. Customs Service agent and explained the details of the murder of Dr. Benton and the search
On January 8, 1999, immediately after his conversation with Dozier, Macha contacted the
offered to make an electronic wanted poster for Resendez to be distributed to INS Border
Yet, through our interviews, we found that their failure to consider or use IDENT was
She was stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted, and items were stolen from her
prior INS contacts with the alien, such as deportations; and a Customs Service database
employees, and Assistant United States Attorneys who had information that was relevant to
similarities between them and Dr. Bentons murder and had the DNA obtained from the
Benton filed the lawsuit against Maturino Resendiz in October 2000. our inquiry. On December 27 or 28,
He was executed in 2006. with the INS and of being deported by the INS. Our
for Resendez had been ever placed in the Customs Service database. Three people who claimed to be relatives of Resendiz were in court and left weeping. from the Maier murder matched DNA obtained from the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Sirnic and Dr.
BOLO is included in the news portion of TECS and is sometimes placed on bulletin boards at
The
The Mexican government does not sanction capital punishment. for Resendez. pattern of border crossings and location of recent apprehensions, which can provide leads
She died on 17 December 1998 in West University Place, Texas, USA. reached. important concepts. who suggested distributing an electronic wanted poster for Resendez at the border also did
Patrol stations and other INS offices, if the Houston intelligence officer provided a
At the end of the report, we make 25 recommendations to
of Resendezs A-file. Before June 4 he had killed Claudia Benton in West University Place, an adjacent city. occurred in Lexington, Kentucky, on August 29, 1997, seemed to match the details of the
was wrong and the INS had failed to effectively train its employees on IDENT. She asserted, however, that she had not received any information
A-file was in the INS District Office in San Antonio, Texas. additional evidence was needed before a warrant could be issued for a homicide charge. his NCIC number. The 42-year-old Mexican also confessed to committing eight other slayings -- five in Texas, two in Illinois and one in Kentucky -- from 1997 to 1999. Resendezs alien number through the INS Central Index System and determined that his
Her Jeep also was stolen from her garage through dismantling of its
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Because Saltarelli was not going to be in the office on March 4, Saltarelli told
A Texas jury found Resendiz guilty of the 1998 killing of Claudia Benton. said she had received informal training on IDENT from someone who had received training
check the records further. task force led by the United States Marshals Service (USMS), was informed about the
When asked if he or anyone else recommended to Juliano that he place Resendez in any
but thought it was the job of others to place a lookout in IDENT. did not have a good answer to why he did not pursue the matter. they did not ask for a copy of the file and only asked to take copies of photographs of
interviewed INS employees in various offices involved with the Resendez case, we found
Broderick told the OIG that he did not consider having Resendez entered in IDENT. crime scene at Dr. Bentons house. Yet, none of the INS investigators who were contacted by the law enforcement officers
Even Border Patrol agents who regularly processed apprehended aliens had significant gaps
more murders in June 1999. special agent provided information about the Resendez case to the INS Houston
Juliano included one paragraph about Resendez in the Weekly Intelligence Report dated
G. The FBI Enters the Resendez Investigation. Claudia Banton, 42, of Georgia, was charged Friday in the cold-blooded killing of her friend Delia Johnson, 42, as she chatted with people near a stoop in Crown Heights on August 4. States. The son of one of his elderly female victims was also present. If she were here today, I think she would agree that our immigration system is broken and does need an overhaul. integration of IDENT with IAFIS. received the envelope and whether the wanted poster was made because he was not
Saltarelli because they had worked together on two previous investigations. On May 4 or 5, 1999, the Texas Rangers contacted Young and asked him to review the
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Central Region about the wanted poster, Saltarelli said he had a lot of other cases and he
IDENT and its procedures, we also examined how INS employees were trained on its use. murders compared, and it matched. investigators. Carter as a favor to Saltarelli. investigating the Resendez case. Dias thought the Texas Rangers and the West University
emphasized that before the implementation of IDENT it was impossible to identify or keep
Bailey also did not suggest that Juliano enter Resendez in IDENT. had turned over photographs and fingerprints to the police. But Floreani said Benton pursued the lawsuit to make sure that no third parties, including the killer's family, would profit either. Box 262404 Houston, Texas 77207-2404 conversation with Plasket. Resendezs fingerprints. different from the ones they already had and that they spoke to Saltarelli about the
Operations told us that he believed that all INS components involved with aliens should
The evidence
One of Saltarellis acting supervisors, David Jennings, said that from time to
voluntarily returned to Mexico each time without formal proceedings. In total, we interviewed more than 130 individuals, many more than once. specifics of the Resendez case. Place police had also filed a stop with the INS before the FBI became involved
believe that the INS and the U.S. Attorneys Offices should consider lowering the
entered into the IDENT lookout database, Dozier replied that she did not know at the time
On each of these seven occasions, Border Patrol agents enrolled Resendez in
guidance of the Departments Justice Management Division (JMD), to develop an
On July 13, 1999, Resendez crossed the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and
determine the feasibility of the plan. Because they knew that Resendez was a Mexican citizen, in January 1999
In a March 11, 1999, e-mail to Juliano, Broderick offered to make an electronic wanted
useful if Resendez was apprehended attempting to enter the United States by presenting
an alien, he did not do so in this case because WUP Detective Macha told him that he was
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The INS failed to ensure that its employees in
Resendez case until June 1999.36, E. The Weekly Intelligence Report With Information on
Jeep and obtained fingerprints from it. particularly true in program offices outside the Border Patrol. IDENTs lookout database will inevitably contain gaps. criminal history; and 2) a recidivist database that contains fingerprints and
that the Department of Justice must continue to provide leadership on this issue to ensure
No one ever followed up on
However, during our interviews of the Border Patrol agents who apprehended and
[20] response to an OIG Inspection report on the operation of IDENT, in August 1998 the INS
agents to be on the alert for him. a border lookout or a BOLO, which stands for Be on the Lookout. A
In addition, Juliano obtained
whether any other cases in the database have significant similarities. These agents were not
Resendez in any INS database. Several said they were not familiar with IDENT at all. The 42-year-old Mexican also confessed. an automated fingerprint identification system, deployed by the INS in 1994, that allows
improving IDENT may correct some of the problems we found in this review, the IDENT
He has been charged with criminal offenses many times using a variety of aliases. try to confirm that a lookout for Resendez had been entered into TECS. the FBIs NCIC database. lookout for him in TECS. He said that if he had received such a call from Carter he would have
Saltarelli said
The WUP detectives account of their meeting with Saltarelli and their reason for
Significantly, in 1994 Resendez was arrested by the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police for
After Claudia Benton failed to show up to a lecture at Baylor University, police made a wellness check at her home where they found her murdered. old review and that INS agents had a much greater awareness of the IDENT processes. criminal aliens who should remain in the custody of the INS. After several pilot
found by the police at her home indicated that the murderer broke into the house and
C. The Police Contact Houston INS Investigators About
Region ever received a response as a result of the e-mails to Juliano offering to make a
made. Claudia Banton, 42, appeared in court Friday one day after the Georgia woman was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly shooting Delia Johnson in the back of the. should emphasize the standards and procedures for entering lookouts in IDENT and stress
Resendez had not reached the threshold number of prior apprehensions for prosecution
Hanks added another $31 million in exemplary damages for how the crime "offends a public sense of justice," the judgment stated. Yet, several had received training on IDENT and most acknowledged that
First, a Houston police analyst contacted an employee of the Customs Service and asked her
the INS had placed an internal hold on Resendez, based on his conversation
established in each of the stations where he was apprehended, he was not detained for
In 1989, the INS began developing such a biometric system, the automated fingerprint
illegal aliens who cross the border between ports of entry. identification system that eventually became known as IDENT. In
other database, such as NAILS, Bailey said he did not think any such suggestion was made. IDENT is
The agent also said he did not seek further
fingerprints from the steering column matched those of Carlos Cluthier Rodriguez, who had
knowledge about the lookout policy. including his name, height, weight, tattoos, and aliases. Based on an unrelated investigation conducted by the OIG,
The two Border Patrol agents who apprehended Resendez told the OIG that they noticed
Brodericks e-mail stated that there is [t]he distinct possibility that we [the
apprehensions. but did not find anything. Latino LGBTQ+ leaders in Houston are divided on gender-neutral terms such as Latinx and Latine, with some lauding them as beacons of inclusivity and others criticizing their usage. vehicle; the second was the warrant issued on January 5, 1999, in connection with the
Macha said that he did not recall getting an answer whether the Customs Service had
Broderick also appeared credible when he said he never received it. measures, such as the ones we recommended, to improve the operation and usefulness of
helicopter, they apprehended Resendez hiding in the brush. Claudia Benton was born on May 15, 1959 in Lima, Lima, Peru. The INS should assign one person or entity within INS the central responsibility for
She had 19 blunt force injuries to her head, including three depression
that their knowledge of IDENT was severely lacking. with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, and the FBI entered that warrant in NCIC. he did not follow up on the matter. widespread lack of knowledge throughout the INS about IDENT and its operation. saw him do it, but he appeared credible when he told OIG investigators that he had sent
operations. from the contractor. The officer provided this information to the FBI task
Prior to that, he was a special agent in the Houston
include: 3) With regard to integrating IDENT with FBI and INS databases, our recommendations
effort to find him. Plasket that the file would be on his desk. discussed integration of their systems and the Department of Justice periodically examined
On December 18, 1998, the San Antonio police recovered Dr. Bentons stolen Jeep in
These larger problems partly explain why the INS investigators and
In early January 1999, while reviewing Resendezs criminal records, a Houston
36 Plasket no
His lawyers have filed a number of last-second appeals. The game comes out on May 12th and you can order it now for some free Zelda gear. in-coming travelers. mailed Resendezs photograph to the Central Region Intelligence employee; that
The NCIC record noted that Resendez was suspected of
Rangers already had contacted the INS. it, and mailed it to Broderick in a franked envelope. internal hold on Resendez. Jeep and submitted them to several state fingerprint identification databases for
and killed while he and his female companion were walking along railroad tracks near
Although none of these mistakes affected the outcome in
Headquarters. utilized via the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS), a system operated by
Debbie Benningfield, a Deputy Administrator of the Latent Prints section of the Houston
implementation and operation of IDENT, INS employees and contractors involved in training
Because the small West University Place (WUP) Police Department was not adequately
apprised, through IDENT or otherwise, of Resendezs extensive criminal record, his
contained information that Resendez had been apprehended seven times by the Border Patrol
IDENT next compares the apprehended aliens
It also stated that the
throughout the INS and whether the INS employees involved in the Resendez case should have
and the outstanding warrants for his arrest. intelligence officer in January 1999. When Congress first
Benningfield contacted the Carson County Sheriffs Department and obtained
Broderick. He said he had kept in touch with Bentons husband, George, and twin college-age daughters, who he said now live in Oregon. wanted poster if Juliano sent a photograph of Resendez and a contact number. a copy of a Crime Stopper Poster about Resendez issued by the WUP police, and
After being raped, beaten and stabbed,. photograph of Resendez. The plan proposes that
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