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U.S. Border Agent Tell Mex Teen to Drink Liquid
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Quote:Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he’d brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico.

The 16-year-old had just crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through a checkpoint at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. U.S. Border Protection agents told him to drink it to prove he wasn’t lying, court records say.

The teen took four sips.

Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists.

In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family’s attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults.

“Mi corazón! Mi corazón!” Acevedo screamed, according to court records — “My heart! My heart!”

He was dead about two hours later.

Now, more than three years after his death, the United States has agreed to pay Acevedo’s family $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against two border agents and the U.S. government.

The family’s attorney, Eugene Iredale, acknowledged that the teen did something wrong when he tried to bring drugs into the United States on Nov. 18, 2013.

“But he’s a 16-year-old boy with all the immaturity and bad judgment that might be characteristic of any 16-year-old kid,” Iredale told The Washington Post. “He was basically a good boy, he had no record, but he did something stupid. In any event, the worst that would’ve happened to him is that he would’ve been arrested and put in a juvenile facility for some period of time. …

Quote:Acevedo crossed the border through the pedestrian entrance at the San Ysidro Port of Entry at about 6:40 p.m. on that November night. Iredale said the teen was carrying his passport and his border crossing card, which allows Mexican citizens to enter the United States and travel within a certain distance for tourism purposes. In California and Texas, the distance is up to 25 miles from the border; New Mexico and Arizona allow noncitizens to travel for up to 55 miles and 75 miles, respectively.

The two Border Protection agents, Adrian Perallon and Valerie Baird, believed the teen was carrying a deadly controlled substance, but they “coerced and intimidated” him into drinking the liquid, according to a complaint. The boy was taken to a hospital almost an hour after he had sipped the methamphetamine.

He was pronounced dead just before 9 p.m.
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(03-21-2017 03:16 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...b2361d051f

Quote:Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he’d brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico.

The 16-year-old had just crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through a checkpoint at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. U.S. Border Protection agents told him to drink it to prove he wasn’t lying, court records say.

The teen took four sips.

Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists.

In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family’s attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults.

“Mi corazón! Mi corazón!” Acevedo screamed, according to court records — “My heart! My heart!”

He was dead about two hours later.

Now, more than three years after his death, the United States has agreed to pay Acevedo’s family $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against two border agents and the U.S. government.

The family’s attorney, Eugene Iredale, acknowledged that the teen did something wrong when he tried to bring drugs into the United States on Nov. 18, 2013.

“But he’s a 16-year-old boy with all the immaturity and bad judgment that might be characteristic of any 16-year-old kid,” Iredale told The Washington Post. “He was basically a good boy, he had no record, but he did something stupid. In any event, the worst that would’ve happened to him is that he would’ve been arrested and put in a juvenile facility for some period of time. …

Quote:Acevedo crossed the border through the pedestrian entrance at the San Ysidro Port of Entry at about 6:40 p.m. on that November night. Iredale said the teen was carrying his passport and his border crossing card, which allows Mexican citizens to enter the United States and travel within a certain distance for tourism purposes. In California and Texas, the distance is up to 25 miles from the border; New Mexico and Arizona allow noncitizens to travel for up to 55 miles and 75 miles, respectively.

The two Border Protection agents, Adrian Perallon and Valerie Baird, believed the teen was carrying a deadly controlled substance, but they “coerced and intimidated” him into drinking the liquid, according to a complaint. The boy was taken to a hospital almost an hour after he had sipped the methamphetamine.

He was pronounced dead just before 9 p.m.
Sounds like a Darwin award. He knew it was liquid meth and drank it anyway. Seems like a case of the BP agent called the kids bluff but then the kid went through through with it!!!
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Not worthy of discussion. Trash parents produce trash children.
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(03-21-2017 03:28 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  Not worthy of discussion. Trash parents produce trash children.

Trash parents who hired a lawyer who acknowledged the kid was in the wrong and breaking the law. What is worthy of discussion is protocol not being followed and it costing the U.S. people 1 million dollars for something that could've been done with a test kit.
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(03-21-2017 03:19 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  
(03-21-2017 03:16 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...b2361d051f

Quote:Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he’d brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico.

The 16-year-old had just crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through a checkpoint at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. U.S. Border Protection agents told him to drink it to prove he wasn’t lying, court records say.

The teen took four sips.

Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists.

In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family’s attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults.

“Mi corazón! Mi corazón!” Acevedo screamed, according to court records — “My heart! My heart!”

He was dead about two hours later.

Now, more than three years after his death, the United States has agreed to pay Acevedo’s family $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against two border agents and the U.S. government.

The family’s attorney, Eugene Iredale, acknowledged that the teen did something wrong when he tried to bring drugs into the United States on Nov. 18, 2013.

“But he’s a 16-year-old boy with all the immaturity and bad judgment that might be characteristic of any 16-year-old kid,” Iredale told The Washington Post. “He was basically a good boy, he had no record, but he did something stupid. In any event, the worst that would’ve happened to him is that he would’ve been arrested and put in a juvenile facility for some period of time. …

Quote:Acevedo crossed the border through the pedestrian entrance at the San Ysidro Port of Entry at about 6:40 p.m. on that November night. Iredale said the teen was carrying his passport and his border crossing card, which allows Mexican citizens to enter the United States and travel within a certain distance for tourism purposes. In California and Texas, the distance is up to 25 miles from the border; New Mexico and Arizona allow noncitizens to travel for up to 55 miles and 75 miles, respectively.

The two Border Protection agents, Adrian Perallon and Valerie Baird, believed the teen was carrying a deadly controlled substance, but they “coerced and intimidated” him into drinking the liquid, according to a complaint. The boy was taken to a hospital almost an hour after he had sipped the methamphetamine.

He was pronounced dead just before 9 p.m.
Sounds like a Darwin award. He knew it was liquid meth and drank it anyway. Seems like a case of the BP agent called the kids bluff but then the kid went through through with it!!!

Definitely a Darwin Award.
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TRASH...
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(03-21-2017 03:37 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  TRASH...

Care to expand on how the parents are trash? Did they send their 16 year old on this mission? Should they have flown a drone to track his every step to make sure he wasn't getting into trouble?
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dumb***! and no, not the BP agents.
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(03-21-2017 03:44 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  dumb***! and no, not the BP agents.

I place all of them in the category of dumb***. There are policies and rules to follow no?
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(03-21-2017 03:19 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  
(03-21-2017 03:16 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...b2361d051f

Quote:Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he’d brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico.

The 16-year-old had just crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through a checkpoint at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. U.S. Border Protection agents told him to drink it to prove he wasn’t lying, court records say.

The teen took four sips.

Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists.

In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family’s attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults.

“Mi corazón! Mi corazón!” Acevedo screamed, according to court records — “My heart! My heart!”

He was dead about two hours later.

Now, more than three years after his death, the United States has agreed to pay Acevedo’s family $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against two border agents and the U.S. government.

The family’s attorney, Eugene Iredale, acknowledged that the teen did something wrong when he tried to bring drugs into the United States on Nov. 18, 2013.

“But he’s a 16-year-old boy with all the immaturity and bad judgment that might be characteristic of any 16-year-old kid,” Iredale told The Washington Post. “He was basically a good boy, he had no record, but he did something stupid. In any event, the worst that would’ve happened to him is that he would’ve been arrested and put in a juvenile facility for some period of time. …

Quote:Acevedo crossed the border through the pedestrian entrance at the San Ysidro Port of Entry at about 6:40 p.m. on that November night. Iredale said the teen was carrying his passport and his border crossing card, which allows Mexican citizens to enter the United States and travel within a certain distance for tourism purposes. In California and Texas, the distance is up to 25 miles from the border; New Mexico and Arizona allow noncitizens to travel for up to 55 miles and 75 miles, respectively.

The two Border Protection agents, Adrian Perallon and Valerie Baird, believed the teen was carrying a deadly controlled substance, but they “coerced and intimidated” him into drinking the liquid, according to a complaint. The boy was taken to a hospital almost an hour after he had sipped the methamphetamine.

He was pronounced dead just before 9 p.m.
Sounds like a Darwin award. He knew it was liquid meth and drank it anyway. Seems like a case of the BP agent called the kids bluff but then the kid went through through with it!!!

Yup.

If he'd fessed up and just turned it over he might, might be alive today to smuggle even more meth into our homes and kids.

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I couldn't care less what they do to non-citizens frankly. Militarize the border at this point. It ends now.
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(03-21-2017 03:47 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  
(03-21-2017 03:44 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  dumb***! and no, not the BP agents.

I place all of them in the category of dumb***. There are policies and rules to follow no?

Yea, pretty stupid on their part as well. Are charges being brought against them for anything or the parents only interested in the civil suit and hitting life's lottery?
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Why was an underage kid crossing the boarder by himself?
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(03-21-2017 03:54 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Why was an underage kid crossing the boarder by himself?

to get to the other side?
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Did the kid have the option of just turning the stuff over to the BP?

I suspect the kid would have no idea what the effect would be of drinking the stuff, just sipping it I mean.
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(03-21-2017 03:51 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  
(03-21-2017 03:47 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  
(03-21-2017 03:44 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  dumb***! and no, not the BP agents.

I place all of them in the category of dumb***. There are policies and rules to follow no?

Yea, pretty stupid on their part as well. Are charges being brought against them for anything or the parents only interested in the civil suit and hitting life's lottery?

IA found no issue, kid doesn't have any constitutional rights so technically no laws were broke, so pretty much the lottery civil suit. (I wonder what 1 million USD would get you in Mexico...).
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(03-21-2017 04:05 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Did the kid have the option of just turning the stuff over to the BP?

I suspect the kid would have no idea what the effect would be of drinking the stuff, just sipping it I mean.

Quote:“I asked him what it was, he said it was juice,” Baird told the other border officer, according to Iredale. “I said to him then, ‘prove it.’ ”

They should've just went straight to a test kit with no option. Kid probably got a fair sum of cash from a cartel or dealer in a no questions asked sort of deal.
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(03-21-2017 04:05 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Did the kid have the option of just turning the stuff over to the BP?

I suspect the kid would have no idea what the effect would be of drinking the stuff, just sipping it I mean.


If he was forced to drink it I'd imagine the BP guys would be charged. OR, he could have just said No, gracias and poured it out or yes, admitted what it was and handing it over.

But, no. He claimed it was apple juice and decided to "prove" it to the cops.

Buh, bye. out of the gene pool.
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Sounds like Trump needs to tell more US attorneys, "You're fired!"

I could never find for the idiot's parents under these facts.
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As someone who has seen the horrors of meth on both a personal and professional basis the kid got off easy. The poison he was bringing into this country usually kills in far slower and much more painful ways.
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