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When detectives came calling this summer at the 25-acre ranch of Lucio Avianeda, outside Minatitlan in southern Mexico, their mission was to arrest Avianeda and his alleged partner in crime, Constantino (Coty) Andrade. But before the lawmen got to the ranch house, they heard voices coming from the stables. Inside they found a dozen undocumented Central American migrants who had been locked up for three days with no food or water. Some lay unconscious in the stifling heat while horses munched hay a few feet away. The cops were not completely shocked: Avianeda and Andrade are reputed people smugglers...
...detectives headed to the house to make arrests, something frighteningly unusual happened. Instead of scattering like the desert animals that migrant smugglers are named for--coyotes--henchmen working for Avianeda and Andrade fired at the cops with automatic weapons. "We've never faced that kind of resistance from coyotes," says the Minatitlan detective commander, Simitrio Rodriguez. "They're usually not even armed." None of the police were hurt. When the gunfight was over, Avianeda, 39, and four others were under arrest. Andrade, 28, had fled, and is still at large...
...developed the lifesaving technique known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a combination of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac compression. He also helped set standards for other aspects of emergency care, including the training of technicians, the assembling of intensive-care units and the prevention of brain damage after cardiac arrest...
Leahy, now a BC senior, testified that Byrne had harassed her while arresting several friends the night before Trombly’s alleged beating. She said that Byrne verbally accosted her when he encountered her again the next night while on his underage drinking detail, and that Trombly’s only involvement before his arrest was to console...
After a series of altercations around the Boston College campus, Byrne arrested Garett D. Trombly ’03 and several of his friends on the night of Sept. 9, 2001. Trombly, then a Harvard junior concentrating in economics, was charged with public consumption of alcohol, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer...