Man arrested for impersonating federal agent and 'deporting' distant cousin's wife

[Liberal_in_LA]

Man arrested for impersonating federal agent and 'deporting' distant cousin's wife
February 3, 2010 | 12:50 pm

A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of posing as a federal marshal to kidnap a distant cousin’s wife and put her on a plane to the Philippines, police said Wednesday.

Witnesses said Gregory Denny, 37, turned up at the Hemet home of Craig Hibbard, a distant cousin, on Jan. 15, wearing a fake badge and a shirt imprinted with “U.S. Federal Agent,” said Lt. Duane Wisehart of the Hemet Police Department.

Displaying what turned out to be a pellet gun, Denny reportedly handcuffed Hibbard’s wife, Cherrie Belle, and told the couple she was being deported, Wisehart said. Denny allegedly drove Belle, 28, to the U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta.

When he was told there was no warrant for her in the computer system, he apparently returned to the couple’s house in the 1200 block of Stepstone Court and instructed her husband to purchase a ticket for her online to her home country, Wisehart said.


Police were told Denny then drove the woman to the international airport in San Diego, where he flashed his fake badge to get through security. He allegedly escorted her to the departure gate, uncuffed her and watched her board a plane to San Francisco en route to Manila, where she remains

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/man-arrested-for-impersonating-federal-agent-and-deporting-distant-cousins-wife.html

[Sanity Claws]

1. I hope this guy gets put away

Terrible, absolutely terrible.

[petronius]

10. I hope a bunch of TSA agents get fired as well - why the hell are we removing our shoes

and posing for naked pictures when an asshole with a fake badge and shirt can waltz a handcuffed kidnap victim to a plane?

:grr:

[tularetom]

2. If you act like you know WTF you're doing you can get away with almost anything

Unless you are a complete fuckup like James O'Keefe, then you can't get away with nothin.

[The Magistrate]

3. Indeed, Sir, That Is The Great Open Secret Of Life....

Look to your front and keep moving....

[peacetalksforall]

4. It sounded like it was going to be a bounty hunter opportunist. Then it sounded like it was

something personl or bigotry. But, it could still be a bounty hunter wanna-be? Or Asian Mafia? Very interesting. Life in America - better than novels or movie scripts.

In this country, the lie pit, we seems to like disappearing people.

Killing them.
Bombing them.
Killing them by torture.
Lifting them off the street and putting them in prison.
Lifting them out of their President's Mansion and shipping them to another country.
Lifting children out of their country or away from parents, 'for God',
Massacring them, including innocent Catholic nuns and bishops, and burying them in Central America.

The list is endless.

[jmowreader]

6. Or he's just a racist fuck

[etherealtruth]

9. My money's with you :-(

[ddeclue]

5. How about we deport him and bring HER back.

:P

[treestar]

7. I wonder if she is here illegally

Otherwise, why would they believe the guy?

[concerned1]

8. Said "he felt he was doing a 'favor’ for the family, and that they, the family, wanted her deported"

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/man-arrested-for-impersonating-federal-agent-and-deporting-distant-cousins-wife.html

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Maybe the husband had buyer's remorse on a mail-order bride deal?
Another theory from Comments section:

"the Wife planned all this out, she wanted to leave her husband but couldn't because she lacked the funds to go home. So she somehow found his cousin and she got the cousin, Denny to pretend he's a US Marshall to deport her."