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 Post subject: ILLEGALS WANTED IN LA PORTE COUNTY
PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:31 pm 
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Men arrested for possessing 200 lbs. of marijuana fail to appear

LA PORTE COUNTY -- Two men arrested for possessing more than 200 pounds of marijuana have apparently skipped town.

Francisco Ruiz, of Ligonier, and Humbert Yepez-Villareal, hometown unknown, were arrested Oct. 24 when police reportedly found 207 pounds of marijuana in the back of their pickup truck after pulling them over on the Indiana Toll Road in La Porte County.

The two men originally appeared in court Oct. 26, but their initial hearings were postponed a week because they both claimed to not speak English and an interpreter wasn’t available.

However, arresting officer Ed Kabella, with the Lake County Drug Task Force, told the court Oct. 26 that Ruiz, who had been in the United States for 13 years, had a conversation with him in English prior to being arrested.

After posting bond of $15,000 each, the two men failed to appear in La Porte Circuit Court Friday.

The $15,000 bond was enhanced and reflected the standard bond for a Class A felony and not a Class C felony, with which each man is charged, because both men did not have ties to the community, Judge Thomas Alevizos said.

After the men failed to appear Friday, Alevizos questioned whether the bond should have been higher yet.

“When I first was elected I raised the bond schedule,” Alevizos said in court Friday. “Perhaps I didn’t raise the bonds high enough.”

A bench warrant has been issued for both men.


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