Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 9, 2012

Nearly a year after a SWAT team murdered former Marine Jose Guerena during an illegal raid on his Tucson home, three of the victim?s relatives have been arrested on drug-related charges.

The Arizona Star reports that Pauline Guerena ? who is married to Jose?s brother, Alejandro ? her father, Jose Celaya, and her sister, Denise Ruiz, were arrested outside their home by deputies on the morning of March 8.

The suspects are accused of belonging to an entity the government-aligned media is calling the ?Guerena Drug Trafficking Organization.? Interestingly, although deputies found $30,000 in cash during a vehicle search, the arrests still haven?t turned up evidence of actual drug trafficking.

The deputies managed to take the suspects ? two small women and a man well into middle age -- into custody without laying siege to the home as if they were conducting counter-insurgency operations in Fallujah. This contrasted sharply with the May 5, 2011 raid on Jose Guerena?s home. Guerena, who had been asleep following a graveyard shift at a local mine, confronted the unidentified armed raiders with a rifle, and was mowed down in a 71-shot fusillade. No evidence was found that Guerena was involved in criminal activity ? and no action has been taken against the people who murdered him.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.