You can usually chalk it up to incompetence or a glitch in the system.
But you really have to wonder why or how they ordered the local Constabulary to let an international fugitive go free.
A former Mexican government official wanted for embezzling millions was arrested in Texas this month, then promptly ordered released by the State Department in a case that has one lawmaker demanding answers.
A day after pulling rank on Smith County, Texas, law enforcement officials, the State Department rescinded the order. But Hector Hernandez Javier Villarreal was gone by then.
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Villarreal, the former secretary executive of the Tax Administration Service of Coahulia, Mexico, was arrested there in November on charges relating to an alleged scheme involving embezzling millions of dollars from the Mexican government. He posted $1 million cash bond, got himself a U.S. visa and then skipped town.
Villarreal surfaced in Tyler, Texas, on Feb. 1, when he, his wife Maria Teresita Botello and another man were pulled over for a routine stop. The couple's two children were also in the car and were turned over to child protective services.
"All we did was make a traffic stop; they didn't have a front license plate," Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith told FoxNews.com.
Police were given permission to search the vehicle and found $67,000 in cash and a shotgun, Smith said.
"When we ran the check on the shotgun, then all of a sudden everyone in federal government became interested -- ATF, (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), FBI, Homeland Security, Immigration (and Customs Enforcement) all showed up," Smith said.
He said Homeland Security officials had told his department that Villarreal was a high-profile and wanted fugitive.
Hillary Clinton's State Department ordered he and his wife free because they were here with a Visa.
Gohmert (R-TX)said he had been told that State Department officials released Villarreal because he entered the country on a valid U.S. visa, even though as an international fugitive, he should have been deported. Gohmert said he also wants to know why Villarreal was granted a visa days after posting $1 million bond following his arrest in Mexico. The visa Villarreal was granted was an EB-5, which is given to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in a business venture.
Am entrepreneur visa they got after he posted a $1 million bond in Mexico and skipped bail.
Was that investment in 0bamas WTF plan?
That's why the word came down to let them go until they were sure to not get caught again?
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