Judge's Wife Arrested Transporting Illegal Immigrants
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2012/07/07 04:51:29
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SARITA (Kiii News) - A traffic stop on Highway 77 landed a Kenedy County woman in hot water with the federal authorities.
Sandra
Lee Miller, 41, is the wife of a Justice of the Peace, and has recently
run for public office herself. She has been charged with bringing in
and harboring illegal immigrants.
Miller's
arrest all started with a traffic stop around 6 a.m. Monday. It
happened on Highway 77, about a quarter-mile south of 285. The Hummer
Miller was in was stopped by the Department of Public Safety for a
license plate light violation.
The U.S. Border Patrol said there were nine illegal immigrants in the vehicle, from Ecuador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Border
Patrol agents took Miller into custody and processed her in Corpus
Christi. She is well known because she recently ran for Kenedy County
Tax Assessor/Collector, but lost to the incumbent. She is also married
to Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Judge Jerry Miller.
"This
is a surprise for me," said Eleuteria "Susie" Gonzalez, the Kenedy
County tax assessor/collector who Miller lost to in election. "I have
known them for several years, but never did I think that they would do
something like that."
Employees at the justice court in Sarita, TX, where her husband works, declined to comment.
The
complain filed against Miller said she aided, abetted and assisted in
the transport of illegal immigrants, which is a federal crime.
According
to a statement by the another woman named in the criminal complaint,
Miller allegedly asked a woman named Maria Guerra to come to her house
in Sarita, TX, to help translate for some illegal immigrants who were
staying in the barn near her house. The complaint said one of the
illegal immigrants lived in a small house on the Miller property.
The
affidavit said Miller offered Guerra $100 to help transport the illegal
immigrants to Houston. Miller was to be paid $500 for each, and Guerra
said the families of those immigrants were instructed to wire money via
Money Gram to the Walmart in Kingsville, and that Miller told Guerra she
did not want to receive all of the money in her name because it would
look bad.
Guerra
also stated that Miller's husband, Judge Jerry Miller, and two sons,
were also present at the home while the immigrants were being harbored
on the property.
The
affidavit also said Miller told Border Patrol agents that she picked up
the illegal immigrants at the corner of her house and was going to take
them to the store. Then, she said she wanted to speak with a lawyer
before saying anything else.
Sandra
Lee Miller, 41, is the wife of a Justice of the Peace, and has recently
run for public office herself. She has been charged with bringing in
and harboring illegal immigrants.
Miller's
arrest all started with a traffic stop around 6 a.m. Monday. It
happened on Highway 77, about a quarter-mile south of 285. The Hummer
Miller was in was stopped by the Department of Public Safety for a
license plate light violation.
The U.S. Border Patrol said there were nine illegal immigrants in the vehicle, from Ecuador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Border
Patrol agents took Miller into custody and processed her in Corpus
Christi. She is well known because she recently ran for Kenedy County
Tax Assessor/Collector, but lost to the incumbent. She is also married
to Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Judge Jerry Miller.
"This
is a surprise for me," said Eleuteria "Susie" Gonzalez, the Kenedy
County tax assessor/collector who Miller lost to in election. "I have
known them for several years, but never did I think that they would do
something like that."
Employees at the justice court in Sarita, TX, where her husband works, declined to comment.
The
complain filed against Miller said she aided, abetted and assisted in
the transport of illegal immigrants, which is a federal crime.
According
to a statement by the another woman named in the criminal complaint,
Miller allegedly asked a woman named Maria Guerra to come to her house
in Sarita, TX, to help translate for some illegal immigrants who were
staying in the barn near her house. The complaint said one of the
illegal immigrants lived in a small house on the Miller property.
The
affidavit said Miller offered Guerra $100 to help transport the illegal
immigrants to Houston. Miller was to be paid $500 for each, and Guerra
said the families of those immigrants were instructed to wire money via
Money Gram to the Walmart in Kingsville, and that Miller told Guerra she
did not want to receive all of the money in her name because it would
look bad.
Guerra
also stated that Miller's husband, Judge Jerry Miller, and two sons,
were also present at the home while the immigrants were being harbored
on the property.
The
affidavit also said Miller told Border Patrol agents that she picked up
the illegal immigrants at the corner of her house and was going to take
them to the store. Then, she said she wanted to speak with a lawyer
before saying anything else.
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Top Opinion
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Our Leaders Are Laughing At Us !
+13They caused this ( the government), and Sandra and her hubby found a way to make more money under the table for themselves off of their own people( race), because they could. And they will, mexicans know how to do that, since their goverment is so corrupted, they are highly trained in working around the system and working under the radar. So we will have more corruption in the USA because our government is corrupted, they are not up holding the laws of the land. Not even the so called president when it comes to protecting the borders......................... sad, ..... here we go..............
The article referred to the illegals as "immigrates" several times, I wonder if that was a "typo?"
This gal took the public trust and threw it away in the trash, threw it in our faces, and, unless her husband knew what she was doing, gave him a giant slam in the face. Take her directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
In fact she is worse for being an American citizen and public servant, or wife of a public servant. That she broke US Law in exchange for money calls into question her husbands service as well.