George Kelly, an Arizona rancher on America’s wide open southern border, was used to seeing various drug & human smugglers, usually armed, trekking across his small cattle ranch in Kino Springs. Unfortunately, Kelly’s ranch is on the “smugglers’ highway” where coyotes lead people across his ranch and through his gate to the road behind Kelly’s house where pre-arranged vehicles pick them up. Just months earlier Kelly found the body of a woman who had been abandoned by the coyotes on his ranch.
Kelly, 74, and his wife, Wanda, live in a modest house on the ranch. Early on January 30, 2023, George Kelly saw 8 to 10 armed men, some with AK-47 rifles and backpacks, surrounding his house. As Wanda sheltered inside, Kelly stood on his porch and fired warning shots in the air. The record shows that Kelly contacted Border Patrol’s Ranch Liaison several times as they saw the trespassers prowling near their house. By the time four Santa Cruz County deputy sheriffs arrived the traffickers were gone.
Later that evening Kelly’s dogs alerted him to a deceased man on his property and Kelly again called the authorities. Deputies responded again. The deceased man had a radio on him and was wearing tactical boots, virtually proving he was involved in illegal activity. He was later identified as Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, who lived south of the border in Nogales, Mexico. U.S. federal court records show he was convicted of illegal entry and deported back to Mexico several times, most recently in 2016.
WHERE ARE THE BALLISTICS TESTS?
Without waiting for the ballistics report, Kelly was arrested and charged with first degree murder. The charge was later downgraded to second degree murder, but two counts of aggravated assault were added when two men came forward claiming they were two of the people who were trespassing on Kelly’s ranch on January 30th.
Kelly is low-income so the court appointed an attorney to represent him, Brenna Larkin. "All the shooting that Mr. Kelly did on the date of the incident was in self-defense and justified," Larkin wrote.
Apparently, the state's case relies entirely on testimony from two illegal aliens who came forward after the investigation had received significant publicity. "There’s a very large incentive structure for people to come forward and claim to have witnessed the event. People can obtain immigration benefits for doing so and people can succumb to intimidation from drug/sex/human traffickers who have an interest in blaming this event on Mr. Kelly," Larkin said.
"Testimony is something that is bought and sold by drug traffickers the same way that drugs and people are bought and sold," Larkin added. "It is a valuable commodity, and it is used by these traffickers to obtain what they want. In this case, the benefit they’re getting is security for their smuggling route through Mr. Kelly’s property, and they’re sending a message to anybody else defending his or her own property that if you defend your property against us, you will be arrested and there will be witnesses who come to stand against you."
“Immigration benefits?” OUR government rewards illegals who testify against Americans? After breaking US immigration law and multiple state laws, illegals are then rewarded with being allowed to stay! And they are allowed to continue their smuggling unimpeded by intimidated ranchers and law “enforcement.”
WHERE’S THE DEAD HORSE?
One of the witnesses asserted that Mr. Kelly came out and just randomly started shooting at people, shooting & killing this man from 10 yards away and shooting a horse. It is hard to hide a dead horse.
"The deceased was certainly not shot from 10 yards away. That does not comport with the physical evidence, and there certainly was not a horse that was shot or injured in this altercation. It appears in the summary that I received from that witness statement that the investigating officers did not even ask a follow-up question," Larkin said. Kelly and his attorney believe there was a falling out between the smugglers which resulted in the death of one of them.
George Kelly has pled “not guilty” and the trial date is set for September 6th.*
*GiveSendGo, which describes itself as a Christian fundraising platform, currently has at least four campaigns collecting money for Kelly’s legal defense. GoFundMe shut down funding campaigns for Kelly early on because they only support “social justice” and other Marxist causes.
Not voting for Trump? Okay, then get used to this. It will get worse!!!
Watch the standard of living if the DA in this Kelly case. It would be prudent for the traffickers to pay off this DA! Don’t trust and verify!