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Roswell man sentenced for molesting girl for four years By Jared Tucker Multimedia Journalist A Roswell man was sentenced May 21 to 23 years in prison after he plead no contest to multiple felony charges of child molestation and sexual penetration. In a plea deal, 20-plus original counts of child molestation were pled down to four, according to authorities. Salvador Briseno Jr. was arrested Jan. 28 and charged with 20 counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor, after his victim, who is his stepdaughter, revealed to her mother the vile acts Briseno had been doing to her over the course of several years.
According to the original criminal complaint, on Jan. 28 Briseno picked up his stepdaughter and took her to her room after the family fell asleep on the couch watching a movie. Briseno prayed with her and then told her he wanted to touch her, but he had been praying to God to take away his sexual desires. The victim got up out of bed to tell her mother, and Briseno admitted he had been touching his wife’s daughter, the complaint states. She called police and Briseno went to the Roswell Police Department to give a statement. “Mr. Briseno told affiant that the audio recorder was not big enough to hold what he was about
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Salvador Briseno, Jr. was sentenced to 23 years in prison with limited good time available due to the violent nature of his charges, Assistant District Attorney Michael Murphy said. to say,” the complaint states. Briseno’s first state-
ment to detectives was, “I’m a child molester,” according to the complaint. Briseno told detectives he doesn’t feel sorry for himself, and that he knows he has issues, which started when he was a kid, when he would find reasons to touch girls by playing games like “doctor.” Briseno proceeded to tell detectives that its a “natural sexual desire” he cannot take away and that medicine would not help him because its incurable. He would often masturbate to relieve his urges, the complaint states. Upon further investigation including an interview of the victim by a CASA volunteer, it was
New job
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Al Eien, the crooked lamppost holding alien, has found work at the new Domino’s dine-in location which is set to open soon at the former KFC at North Main Street and Country Club Road. The new paint job is the work of former Roswellian Justin Teran who now lives in Dallas where he mainly does murals and canvas paintings. Teran graduated from Roswell High School in 2008 and graduated from the Art Institute of Dallas in 2011. He will be visiting in Roswell for the month of June and welcomes inquiries for future projects. Teran can be reached at 214-673-5657 or by e-mail at jlteran21@gmail. com.
Watchdog: Suspected ex-Nazis got $20.2M in Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elfriede Rinkel’s past as a Nazi concentration camp guard didn’t keep her from collecting nearly $120,000 in American Social Security benefits. Rinkel admitted to being stationed at the Ravensbrueck camp during World War II, where she worked with an attack dog trained by the SS, according to U.S. Justice Department records. She immigrated to California and married a German-born Jew whose parents had been killed in the Holocaust. She agreed to leave the U.S. in 2006 and remains the only woman the Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit ever initiated deportation proceedings against. Yet after Rinkel departed, the U.S. Social Security Administration kept paying her widow benefits, which began after her husband died, because there was no legal basis for stopping them until late last year. Rinkel is among 133 suspected Nazi war criminals, SS guards, and others that may have participated in the Third Reich’s atrocities who received $20.2 million in Social Security benefits, according to a report to be
released later this week by the inspector general of the Social Security Administration. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report. The payments are far greater than previously estimated and occurred between February 1962 and January 2015, when a new law called the No Social Security for Nazis Act kicked in and ended retirement payments for four beneficiaries. The report does not include the names of any Nazi suspects who received benefits. But the descriptions of several of the beneficiaries match legal records detailing Rinkel’s case and others. The large amount of the benefits and their duration illustrate how unaware the American public was of the influx of Nazi persecutors into the U.S., with estimates ranging as high as 10,000. Many lied about their Nazi pasts to get into the U.S. and even became American citizens. They got jobs and said little about what they did during the war. Americans were shocked in the 1970s to learn their former enemies were living next door. Yet the U.S. Today’s Forecast
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was slow to react. It wasn’t until 1979 that a special Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations, was created within the Justice Department. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., requested that the Social Security Administration’s inspector general look into the scope of the payments following an AP investigation, which was published in October 2014. AP found that the Justice Department used a legal loophole to persuade Nazi suspects to leave the U.S. in exchange for Social Security benefits. If they agreed to go voluntarily, or simply fled the country before being deported, they could keep their benefits. The Justice Department denied using Social Security payments as a way to expel former Nazis. By March 1999, 28 suspected Nazi criminals had collected $1.5 million in Social Security payments after their removal from the U.S., Social Security Administration records uncovered by AP showed. Since then, AP estimated the amount paid out had grown substantially. That estimate was based on See NAZIS, Page A3
discovered Briseno had been molesting his victim for around four years while the family lived in Washington State and C o lo ra d o . A n a me n d e d criminal complaint added what most would consider heartbreaking and disturbing details to the case. Briseno told his victim, “you better do it, or I’ll put a baby in you,” when she refused one of his attacks, the complaint states. Briseno was sentenced to 23 years in prison for four separate counts, as follows: • Eighteen years in prison with a one year habitual offender enhancement for criminal sexual penetration in the first degree (child under
13) • Three years in prison with a one year habitual offender enhancement for bribery of a witness, a third degree felony. Sentences for counts one and two will run consecutively. • Fifteen years each for two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor (under 13 years old), to run concurrently with the prison sentence for counts one and two. Assistant District Attorney Michael Murphy said Briseno did show remorse at his sentencing, where he was also sentenced for a burglary case. Multimedia journalist Jared Tucker can be contacted at 575-622-7100, ext. 301, or mmnews@ rdrnews.com.
By Jeff Tucker Record Staff Writer
into dump trucks. A Chaves County sheriff’s deputy was on the scene Monday to prevent any disturbance in the work, as Tricarico last week said he would protest road crews working on his property. The sheriff’s deputy said at about 1 p.m. there had been no problems. Chaves County Road Operations Director Terry Allensworth said there were about 11 road crew personnel working Tricarico’s property Monday, including four truck drivers, two heavy equipment operators, three men cutting materials, a water truck driver and a foreman. Tire specialist Mauro Acosta of the Road Department, working in the hot afternoon sun, said the work would take three to five days to finish. “We’re hoping to have it
County begins junkyard cleanup
Chaves County workers on Monday began cleaning up a debris-ridden property just north of the city that county leaders have declared a safety hazard. County Road Department personnel were using multiple backhoes Monday to gather large quantities of debris from the property of Ernest “Rod” Tricarico at 6105 N. Main St., while another backhoe arrived on a flatbed truck at about 1 p.m. Tricarico’s property has for years been littered with several partially deconstructed mobile homes and debris. Road workers were dismantling mobile home frames with acetylene torches throughout Monday’s lunch hour while other workers were loading large quantities of debris
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Keeping the town beautiful
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This hotel looks as good on the outside as it does on the inside. TownePlace Suites on East 19th Street was the recipient last week of a special beautification award for outstanding landscape and maintenance from Keep Roswell Beautiful.
Summer reading adventure happening now Staff Report This summer, children and adults alike can go on a Summer Reading Adventure at the Roswell Public Library. The more time spent reading in June and July, the higher the prize level with which readers will be rewarded. During the Summer Reading Adventure – which runs through July 31 – readers of all ages earn prizes for every hour of reading or listening to materials that are checked out from the city library. E-books and audio books are included in materi-
al that qualifies for prizes. Even children who are not reading on their own yet can participate. Those who read to someone earn reading hours and so do the listeners. There are small prizes for one or two hours of reading, but larger prizes can be earned by reading more hours. For those who read at least 20 hours before the end of the program, a “Summer Reading” T-shirt will be awarded in addition to other prizes that were earned. Prizes, many of which were donated by the public, range from pencils, jump ropes and marbles to
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• Freda Barnard • Gayle R. Madsen
a kite, electronics, and of course lots of books. Prize donations are still being accepted. People can sign up for the Summer Reading Adventure by visiting the library any time during the program from June 1 through July 31. The library also offers other summer programs, including Story Time each Wednesday at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and each Saturday at 2 p.m. Each Wednesday, Story Time features a different performer
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