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Parole Warrants: Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Penal Institution
Aggravated Rape
Murder
Other Warrants: Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration

RACE: White
SEX: Male
DOB: 07-10-1959
HEIGHT: 5′ 7″
WEIGHT: 180 lbs.
SMT: Tattoos on neck, right hand, left hand, left finger, left arm, right arm, chest, and back; Scar near left eye.
TDC#: 329991
SID#: TX02564199
FBI#: 626832W11
LKA: 1650 Horizon Boulevard North, El Paso, Texas
CCH: Possession of a Controlled Substance, Assault-Family Member, Assault Causing Bodily Injury, Aggravated Sexual Assault, and Murder.

Caution: Subject should be considered ARMED and DANGEROUS!
On or about August 16, 1981, Antonio Rivera Mena and two associates abducted a 20-year-old female from a street in El Paso, Texas, by threatening her with a knife. They then took the victim to an isolated an area and sexually assaulted her.
On or about October 13, 1984, Mena used a homemade shank to stab a fellow inmate to death at the TDCJ Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony, Texas.
On or about February 5, 1988, Mena was searched by officials at the TDCJ Ellis Unit in Walker County, Texas, and was found to be in possession of a quantity of marijuana.
On July 7, 2006, Mena was released from TDCJ as a registered sex offender but failed to register with law enforcement, as required by law.

NEVER attempt to apprehend a fugitive yourself. If you have information on the location of this fugitive, contact TEXAS CRIME STOPPERS 24 hours a day at:

1-800-252-TIPS (8477)

You DO NOT have to give your name, and your information could earn you a
$1,000 CASH REWARD
.

AKA: Ezequiel Villarreal-Rios, Raul Padilla, Raul Padilla-Martinez.
RACE: Hispanic
SEX: Male
DOB: 12-02-1966
HEIGHT: 5′04″
WEIGHT: 120 lbs.
SMT: Tattoos on right arm, right forearm, and upper right arm; Scar on right elbow.
TDC#: 871055
SID#: TX06209455
FBI#: 507695DA2
Parole Warrants: Homicide
OTHER Warrants: Homicide
CCH: Homicide
LKA: 8701 Gustine Lane, #4811, Houston, Texas.

Caution: Subject should be considered ARMED and DANGEROUS!

On April 13, 1990, Esequiel Rios Villareal was at a residence in Harris County, Texas, when he got into an argument with a 25-year-old Hispanic male. During the argument, Villareal pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim several times in the abdomen, resulting in the victim’s death.

This news story is claiming success with the Amber Alert System. They did capture a mother who took her two children away from foster care by using the Amber Alert. But it reveals a much deeper issue about the Amber Alert.

Amber Alert led to arrest of fugitive mother
© 2007 The Associated Press

KETCHIKAN, Alaska — A woman accused of fleeing from Texas with her two sons was apprehended in a small southeast Alaska village after crew members on a regional ferry recognized them from photos issued by the Amber Alert system.

Alaska State Troopers in Klawock on Christmas Eve arrested Lelah Jeanne Sullivan, 48, based on a Texas fugitive arrest warrant. She is being held on $100,000 bail.

U.S. marshals were in Ketchikan in mid-December trying to find Sullivan. She was accused of fleeing Texas with her sons age 13 and 16, who had been placed in a Texas foster home.

Sullivan was charged with two counts of interference with child custody, a felony, and obstruction of a court order.

The woman broke the law. I don’t disagreee with that at all. The police should have arrested her. No problem there either.

However, the Amber Alert should not have been used in this case. It was created with specific criteria for it’s use and law enforcement continues to misuse it since it fell under the control of the NCMEC.

According to Wikipedia, “To avoid both false alarms and having alerts ignored as a “wolf cry”, the criteria for issuing an alert are rather strict.”

Each state’s or province’s AMBER alert plan sets its own criteria for activation, meaning that there are differences between alerting agencies as to which incidents are considered to justify the use of the system. However, the U.S. Department of Justice issues the following “guidance”, which most states are said to “adhere closely to”[5]:

law enforcement must confirm that an abduction has taken place

the child must be at risk of serious injury or death

there must be sufficient descriptive information of child, captor, or captor’s vehicle to issue an alert

the child must be 17 years old or younger

Many law enforcement agencies have not used #2 as a criteris, resulting in many parental abductions triggering an Amber Alert where the child is not known or assumed to be at risk of serious injury or death.

In this case, #2 was ignored once again. Many law enforcement agencies misuse the Amber Alert. The result is that the public has become desensitized to it. There are only about 100 stranger abductions in the US each year. If the Amber Alert was reserved for those cases as it was intended to be, people would pay more attention to it and we would have better results in cases where the child is actually at risk of serious injury or death.

Photo of Texas Most Wanted Fugitive Javier Gonzales from www.myfoxdfw.com

DFW Most Wanted: Javier Gonzales
Last Edited: Saturday, 11 Aug 2007, 5:40 PM CDT
Created: Saturday, 11 Aug 2007, 5:40 PM CDT


DALLAS —
The Dallas-Fort Worth Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team needs your help to catch one of DFW’s Most Wanted suspects - Javier Gonzales.


DFW Fast officials said it’s been years since two little girls told their mother her boyfriend sexually assaulted them. But the boyfriend still hasn’t served a day in jail for the alleged crimes.


Fort Worth Police charged Gonzalez with aggravated sexual assault in August 2003. But he’s been on the run since then and may even be getting help from - of all people - the alleged victims’ mother.


Anyone with information about Gonzalez is urged to call the voicemail pager for DFW Fast at 214-807-0014. Tipsters can leave a message and do not have to leave a name.

The Rest of The Story here



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