Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20181228 :

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20181228

Manhunt for a suspected cop killer is over. Investigators as you can see are set to hold a News Conference with updates any minute. They will let us know i had with that, we are going to bring in the News Conference. In pursuit of justice, Gustavo Perez arriaga, 33 years old, was arrested earlier today during the execution of a search warrant. He was found at a residence in the bakersfield kern county area and we will get into the specifics of that. First, i want to introduce officer ron singhs brother, reggie. He would like to share some comments with all of you. Please bear with me. This is not easy for me. He was my older brother. And yes, he is not coming back. But, there are lots of people out there that miss him. And a lot of Law Enforcement people that i dont know, who worked days and nights to make this happen, i would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this happen. I wish i could thank all the Law Enforcement agencies, Homeland Security in san francisco, everyone. I was waiting for this to happen, and i would like to thank you for working day and night to make this happen. Thank you. On behalf of the Newman Police department and the city of newman, we are extremely grateful for all the help and support that we have received over the past few days. Without our brothers in Law Enforcement and sisters in Law Enforcement, this never would have happened. We dont have the resources to make this happen. Without even a blink of an eye, they came to our aid and they were able to catch the suspect and bring him into custody. This is new for our department. I know what it was shared yesterday that this hasnt happened in the city of newman, and history of the police department. Many people have gone above and beyond to help us out. Weve had overwhelming support from the community. Emails, phone calls, text messages. We havent returned all of them and you have to bear with us. We will try to get back to everybody but it will take some time. But thank you all for everything you did. The team that took him into custody in kern county, we greatly appreciate what you did for us. Stanislaus county Sheriffs Department tirelessly working and keeping us updated throughout the night. We will always be in your debt. Thank you very much. So lets talk a little bit about the investigation and where it will go from here, then i will open it up to questions. Obviously i shared with you yesterday that we were going to relentlessly pursue this criminal. I told you that we would spare no expense and that every resource available to us would be brought to bear. That doesnt happen without relationships. That doesnt happen without partnerships. And so, while i will probably miss some of them, i will hit the highlights. Our federal Law Enforcement partners, dhs, i. C. E. , the fbi, u. S. Customs and border protection, all of them came to our aid. Task forces, you name it, i had it available at our disposal. Our state and local Law Enforcement partners yesterday, when we knew that our suspect was in kern county, one phone call to sheriff donna youngblood. He told me sheriff, whatever you need because, thats how sheriffs role. We Work Together to pursue justice for crime victims. In this case, for officer singh. His teams rolled out. We have these locations, even though i told you that there were multiple investigative leads and locations that weve been working on. All those rolled out, and we had search warrants executed and earlier today, sheriff youngbloods team as well as ours were able to take mr. Arriaga into custody. Remember i told you yesterday that anybody who aids and abets or helps this criminal was going to go to jail. So we also have eric torres and adrian bergen who have gone to jail because they intentionally lied to us. They tried to divert us off of the investigation. They misled us and provided information that was false in an attempt to protect their brother who we also know was trying to flee to mexico. That was his goal to get across the border. This criminal, mr. Areata, crossed our border illegally some time ago. He is a criminal. He has two prior arrests for dui. And thats the reason officer singh stopped him, we had cause to believe he was under the influence of alcohol. An officer has lost his life over a dui stop from someone whos been previously arrested. Mr. He also has gang affiliati. All you have to do is take a look at social media, which by the way got way ahead of us again, and theres plenty of photographic emigrant, evidence on and in social media and other platforms that clearly shows himself promoting himself as a gangster. So, while we absolutely need to stay focused on his service and sacrifice, we cant ignore the fact that this could have been preventable. Under sp 54 in california, based on two arrest for dui and other active warrants that this criminal has out there, Law Enforcement would have been prevented, prohibited, from sharing any information with i. C. E. About this criminal gang member. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not how you protect a community. This is not how you assure the people who live in our community regardless of their ethnicity, their culture, their race, any of that. That they live in a safe community. There are people that want to exploit and victimize others and in this case, officer singh sacrificed everything. He paid the ultimate price trying to protect and serve the people of newman. We need to have a conversation about that. From this point forward, we have a lot of work left to do. There is an incredible amount of work, investigative work, that we have left in order to deliver across a prosecutable case to our district attorney. This could be a capital case, we dont know. But this isnt something that will be done anytime soon. Certainly the arrest does bring some closure to the family and helps the Newman Police department and the community in newman. But make no mistake. We will continue this investigation until we have everything presentable so that we can prosecute. Obviously, there is a lot of misinformation and other information that is being spread and widely spread on social media. Remember, if you dont hear it from us, be cautious about the validity and the valid parts of information that you may see and hear. At this point, im happy to answer any questions that you might have. Remember im not going to get into great detail here and its under ongoing investigation. Im told they are both brothers, am i wrong . Im sorry, eric quiroz is the coworker. Sheriff, when you detain the suspect, did he say anything to you . I wasnt there, and even if he made spontaneous statements, we would get into that. [indistinct question] this location has been under surveillance for at least the last 24 hours. It resulted in a vehicle that we were tracking and we kept that residence under constant surveillance, including surveillance from airships, air support units that were allocated. My thanks to the highway patrol, they allocated their airship out of fresno. We had our air support unit and others, so there was no way that that car or this location was not going to be under anything other than constant surveillance. Sheriff, did tips come in, did people try to help . We have received hundreds of tips. We will investigate each and every one of them. How long has the suspect been in the country illegally . We know that he was a farm laborer and he has worked or worked at dairies. Its probably just a laborer type environment and there has been no longterm consistent employer that we are aware of. Miscellaneous jobs are related to just Labor Industry type work. Can you confirm that he is from a long, mexico, originally . I cannot. He is from mexico. The other suspect that you had arrested were they also here illegally . Yes. Sheriff, the car that you were tracking, does this belong to the brother or the coworker or someone in the family . We are still working on that. Sheriff , they try to throw you guys off, and we asked for their cooperation and they lied to us. It was in the Madera County area. Why the multiple names. Do they have aliases . People who have criminals are typically those that operate in that element, they use multiple aliases. He had multiple facebook pages with different names and all of that is out there, publicly available. The two other suspects, where they arrested and was gestapo arriaga alone . To your first question, the other two were arrested south of Stanislaus County and brought here for questioning. At this point, yes. We believe that arriaga was alone when he committed the crime. Leland it we will continue to monitor the News Conference in modesto, california. An emotional sheriff talking about the arrest of one suspect on murder charges there, of officer ron singh, and two other suspects that help the suspect even capital, capture. With that we will bring in william la jeunesse, whos been following the capture. Sheriffs said they thought the suspect was trying to get to mexico. Did you have any reporting on sort of what traps they were setting up to prevent that, how big this dragnet went . We know this. When they failed to release his name, that often tells you because people from mexico, they said he was a hispanic male. Many of those south of the border will use their mothers maiden name and their fathers name, and they will use one or the other, or change those or invert then if you will to try to throw off Law Enforcement. So the prince probably matched a number of different aliases. That will kick the sanctuary city debate into high gear. Because the sheriff to pointed directly to sp 54, the sanctuary bill, and that prevented that information or the two duis prevented them from turning that over to i. C. E. Leland william, thank you. We remember and say thank you for the service of ron arriaga. 33 years old, and officer and father and now his dog, sam, will be with his wife and son. Call usaa to start saving on insurance today. I did a lot of research into dna tests. Most can tell the continent or country that your ancestors are from, but ancestrydna showed me the specific places they called home. 20 million members have connected to a deeper family story. Order your kit at ancestry. Com. To a deeper family story. Oh oh ozempic® vo people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. Oh under seven . vo and you may lose weight. 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Ellison barber is live at the white house where it is noteworthy product news as well. The president s budget director and incoming chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the president is absolutely serious about that threat to shut down the southern border, despite what legal experts may say or questions that may arise about whether or not he can actually do that. He says at this point, all options are on the table and the president is absolutely serious about shutting down the border. All options are on the table. Its the only way we can get the democrats attention. Let me walk you through whats happening in the next couple days. Thats less than the 5 billion that President Trump previously asked for a bit more than the 1. 3 that democrats and ask for. He is also pushing back on the idea that federal workers are not getting paid. Paychecks are going out today for a pay period that ended on december 22nd. In the past, congress has passed legislation to give furloughed workers back pay after a shut down. Mick mulvaney talked about that as well pointing to another reason why some of the reporting on this in his view has not been accurate. And they are in this in the long haul. And this falls on nancy pelosi. Thats a question that you all have to ask. Right now what weve seen from her is that shes unwilling to actually do anything until she gets her speakership. Shes more willing willing to protect that then she is our borders and american lives. The democrats say they have given republicans they have given the white house three options to reopen the government and all of it included funding for Border Security but not the president s wall, which they describe as immoral, ineffective and expensive. Leland ellison barber, and we will head to the other end of the white house, when we come back. Better life. Theres no place likargh e im trying. Yippiekiyay. Mom. Leland welcome back. Congress is out of session until january 3rd which is when the new congress starts. Our senior producer for capitol hill says he doesnt expect any resolution to the shutdown before then. Team fox coverage continues, peter doocy is up on the hill. There appears to be a lot of tourists behind you and not a lot of members of congress. Thats it, and republicans wherever they are dont want to give up an inch. Senator Lindsey Graham just tweeted this. He wrote to nancy pelosi in the house democrats, no wall money, no deal. And there are no key members on the hill this morning to sort any of this out, just tourists looking around as a clock ticks away on paul ryans tenure as speaker. The republican seem satisfied and they got stuck in the senate. White house officials apparently have that in a message to Democratic Leaders but were told, no thanks. Of those democrats never made a counter offer before leaving town. Now one of the former democrats we seen on the hill is taking pot shots at President Trump. I think its an embarrassment any time the government shuts down and this being no exception. We need to work at it until we get to an agreement where the majority say yes. And i think we had that untold the president went off his meds and, who knows what happened. This is the shutdown of the border wall but its also the shutdown where there really is no sense of urgency to reopen the parts of the government that ran out of money, because about three quarters of the federal government remain open right no now. Leland its a run through for people who have involvement with the federal government, is it because they get their Social Security checks or welfare checks or other kinds of benefits, who is affected and who is not . People who get Social Security checks and medicaid checks are still going to get those checks. Unemployment benefits and food stamps still get spent as well but the money has a right out of 9 out of 15 cabinet level agencies including the state department, justice department, and a lot of employees at those agencies are still working right now. But they are also waiting to get paid until the people here can scrape together enough tax dollars to pay them. Leland noteworthy as always that the government is able to scrape together the tax dollars. Correct . Correct. In this when they are. Leland peter doocy on capitol hill, thank you. With that we bring in amy titanium and former Ohio State Senate minority leader democratic capri cafaro. Ladies, nice to see both of you. Capri, as this goes on, you do get the sense that it is republicans negotiating against themselves. We already heard from ellison barber that President Trump has gone and lowered his number. Right. You are bringing up an interesting point because if you rewind all the way back to earlier in the year or may be at the end of his 2017, there was an offer on the table for a 25 million for the wall in exchange for that, but things unraveled from there. Democrats and republicans need to come together and grow up and find a solution here. I know that is very farfetched. But there is a lot of fingerpointing and people are trying to one up one another to try to point blame at the other party, and who is losing . The american people. Im guessing in a way that intellectual honesty, i might agree on that. At the end of the assessment there. Absolutely. And you just had a congressman say that it was an embarrassment that the government sh

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