News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Nogales surgeon gets prison term for removing fingerprints

Associated Press
Feb. 13, 2008 09:58 AM

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Nogales plastic surgeon who removed the fingerprints of a man involved in a drug ring must serve 18 months in prison.

U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane in Harrisburg, Pa. called the crime "horrific" when she sentenced Dr. Jose Covarrubias on Tuesday.

Covarrubias could have faced a sentence twice as long.


But Kane ruled that prosecutors couldn't prove Covarrubias knew about the specific crimes being committed by Marc George.

And Kane took another six months off the sentence because Covarrubias has helped authorities who were investigating some of his other clients.

Covarrubias is a U.S. citizen who lived in the border town of Nogales and practiced in Mexico.

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