Phoenix police officer shot during traffic stop by illegal alien

Carolyn Hileman* | October 18, 2007

Filed Under Crime Criminals Justice, Immigration

PHOENIX (AP) - An illegal immigrant who previously had been deported has been ordered held without bond for allegedly trying to kill a Phoenix police officer. Thirty-5-year-old Jose Abel Cabrera is accused of shooting the officer after he’d been pulled over in northeast Phoenix for running a stop sign. Police credit the 22-year-old rookie officer’s bulletproof vest with saving his life. The officer, who was treated at a hospital and then released, returned the fire as man who shot him sped away in a pickup. Cabrera was arrested seven hours later at his northwest Phoenix home. Police say he denied being involved, alleging he had lent his pickup — which was found with two apparent bullet holes in the rear window — to someone else.

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