Hard-working Invaders

Marvin Castellanos-Rivera just doing the crime Americans won't do.  Alleged, of course, since everyone deserves due process -- which is one the reasons for the invasion.  This part annoys me somewhat: 

During the interview, Castellanos was very concerned about being deported from the United States,” the detective wrote in the probable cause statement. ... Defendant is also a flight risk; defendant told officers that he has been deported prior to this incident. Defendant stated that he was allowed to come back into the country for a month to take care of child support issues. (emphasis added)

Beside the issue with the alleged perpetrator, here's a lesson in what not to do:

The woman told police that she was walking north on Market Avenue near College Street while talking on her cellular telephone shortly after midnight Sunday.  She said a man came up behind her, pushed her into a wall, grabbed her cell phone, covered her mouth, and held a knife to her throat.

It's a bad part of town.  It is a bad hour to be out alone, and it's a really bad time and place to not be paying attention to your surroundings.  A concealed carry permit will not do you much good if you walk around with in what Col. Cooper would call "Condition White".

The area was not deserted, and a passerby intervened to cause the attacker to flee -- without violence, by the way.  Another passerby on a bicycle helped police locate and identify Castellanos-Rivera.  It's nice to know there are still people around who will defend the weak.