Prosecutors say illegal immigrant charged in killing of officer got help to re-enter U.S.
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The owner of a landscaping firm was arrested Wednesday and faces up to 10 years in federal prison, accused of harboring one of his workers, an illegal immigrant from Mexico charged with the capital murder of a Houston police officer.
Court documents show that Robert Lane Camp, 47, went to considerable lengths to help Juan Leonardo Quintero and keep him on the job at his Deer Park landscaping company before the September 2006 killing of officer Rodney Johnson.
In August 1998, Camp posted a $10,000 bond for Quintero after he was jailed on an indecency with a child charge and hired an attorney to defend him. After the worker was deported in May 1999, Camp sent him money in Mexico and later bought him a plane ticket from Phoenix to Houston after Quintero re-entered through Arizona illegally, according to an affidavit by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Camp then purchased a house in Houston and rented it to Quintero.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5442207.html
A HISTORY OF AIDING WORKER
• August 1998: Robert Camp posts a $10,000 cash bond for Juan Leonardo Quintero, who was charged with indecency with a child.
• March 3, 1999: Quintero is convicted of a sexual offense with a minor.
• May 7, 1999: Quintero is deported from the U.S.
• Nov. 26, 1999: Quintero boards a Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Houston after hiring a smuggler to re-enter the U.S. through Arizona. Quintero’s wife tells investigators her husband told her Camp purchased the ticket.
• Sept. 21, 2006: Quintero is accused of fatally shooting Houston police officer Rodney Johnson in the head during a traffic stop in which Quintero was driving a company truck owned by Camp. Quintero is later charged with capital murder.
• Oct. 4, 2006: ICE agents receive information alleging that Camp, of Camp Landscaping, knowingly employed Quintero in violation of federal law.
Source: ICE affidavit by Senior Special Agent Gary Renick