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Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus
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Location: United States of America
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 Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:32 pm 'Bloody chainsaw' man enters US |
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| Quote: | A man carrying a home-made sword and what looked like a blood-stained chainsaw was allowed into the US from Canada, the Associated Press reports.
The news agency says Gregory Despres' weapons were confiscated, before US custom officials in Calais, Maine, let him cross the border on 25 April.
The next day he became a murder suspect after bodies of his two neighbours were found in his hometown in Canada.
Mr Despres, 22, was arrested on 27 April and is now awaiting extradition.
Bill Anthony
US Customs and Border Protection spokesman
The bodies of Mr Despres' neighbours were discovered in the town of Minto, New Brunswick.
The decapitated body of Frederick Fulton was found on the kitchen floor in his house. The man's head was under a kitchen table.
His common-law wife was discovered stabbed in a bedroom.
'Nobody asked'
AP quoted Bill Anthony, a spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection, as saying the Canadian-born Mr Despres was questioned for about two hours before being allowed to enter the country.
Mr Anthony said Mr Despres could not be detained because he was a naturalised US citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.
"Nobody asked us to detain him," the spokesman said.
"Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up... We are governed by laws and regulations, and he did not violate any regulations".
Mr Anthony added that officials in Calais did not have a forensic laboratory.
"They can't look at a chainsaw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint," he said.
Mr Despres was detained, after police spotted him wandering down a motorway in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains.
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Mr Despres also had a knife, a hatchet and brass knuckles
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Jeff Miller
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Joined: 22 Nov 2001
Posts: 23947
Location: Mental Ward for the Mentaly Unstable 6th floor, Saint John's 1615 Delaware Longview Washington 98632
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| Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:33 pm |
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I sense a horror movie in the making.
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CJ Cregg
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| Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:37 pm |
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 Just by looking at his picture he looks like a psycho
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Leo Wyatt
Sweetest Angel
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
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Location: Investigating A Crime Scene. What did Quark do this time?
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| Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:52 pm |
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Sick, just sick. He does look like a psycho alright.
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jonathan95
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Joined: 29 Oct 2002
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Location: UK Newcastle
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| Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:29 pm |
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sounds strange to me that they are governed by laws, yet they dont really bother thinking that a man carrying a chainsaw and a knife and such, has been upto no good.
they questioned him hes earther a great lier, or the people most have not really been thinking with a full mind, at what this guy's just walked in with.
peronaly regulations or not if I was on boarder watch and a guy came into my both wanting into my side, carrying a chainsaw with red on it, and then having a knife and such I would be asking a lot of questions about those items, whilst calling for back up and police to check the guy out much more thuraly, but yer he hadnt broken any laws that they new of at that time still a bit strange.
this guy is obviously a nutter and a great lier to pull off a stunt like this. I hope he spends a good long time rotting in some jail cell for his crimes.
and hopefuly the next time a guy walks into customs with those items they might be able to work a little faster in finding what this person may have been upto with those items.
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Dirt
Exercise Boy
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Location: a tree
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| Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:41 am |
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I think it's great they respected the man's rights despite everything.  For once a sign of true democratic rights!
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Cathexis
The Angel of Avalon
Joined: 26 Dec 2001
Posts: 5901
Location: ~~ Where Dreams Have No End�
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| Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:50 am |
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Wow, now that's pretty scary...I'm glad they arrested him and all the while respected his rights  . Anyway, it's people like this nutter who the Feds really need to catch....lol...that's one down, 3 million to go!
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England
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| Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:32 pm |
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CSI taught me that it's easy to tell whether that's blood on that there chainsaw. Stupid TV, lying to me again!
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lex
Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 23 Dec 2004
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| Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:40 pm |
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Actually, the guy himself was spattered with blood - not just his blade.
Hey, I'm all for supporting the rights of the individual, but I'm pretty sure that blood on person/tool that could double as a weapon and is being carried by person with blood on his clothes (and dried blood looks nothing like red paint!) might - just MIGHT - constitute the "probable cause" needed in order to detain someone for a search.
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:54 am |
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| madlilnerd wrote: | | CSI taught me that it's easy to tell whether that's blood on that there chainsaw. Stupid TV, lying to me again! |
To a certain extent it is, but they stuff they use is to expensive to use all the time.
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