The Guatemalan immigrant who was murdered along with her two daughters in January filed a police report last year warning that her husband would kill her, but the NYPD never took action or bothered to translate her report into English, sources tell the NY Post. Last May, Deisy Garcia filled out the report in Spanish, her native language, after calling police to her Queens home because her husband, Miguel Mejia-Ramos, assaulted her. Garcia, 21, wrote that she "was afraid Mejia-Ramos, 29, was going to kill her as well as their kids because she loved them so much," according to the tabloid.
Mejia-Ramos was not arrested, and that report, along with another domestic violence report filed last November, were never translated into English by patrol officers or the Domestic Violence Unit at the 103rd Precinct, the Post reports. Mejia-Ramos, who has confessed to the triple murder, reportedly told investigators he stabbed Garcia to death after looking at her phone and seeing a Facebook photo of her with another man.
Miguel Mejia-Ramos
that after killing his wife, he intended to flee with his two daughters, ages one and two. But he killed them when he realized "I didn’t have car seats." He was arrested at a checkpoint in Texas less than 48 hours later, behind the wheel of a car with New York plates. The Times notes:
On July 19, 2010, [Mejia-Ramos] was pulled over for traffic violations by the New York State Police and was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which began the process of deporting him, according to an immigration official with knowledge of the case. But in April 2013, his deportation case was closed, the official said, because it fell under guidelines adopted by the Obama administration in 2011 that directed the agency to focus on deportation cases involving those convicted of serious crimes.
The Post called Garcia's grief-stricken mother Luzmina Alvarado to inform her about the untranslated police reports. "I’m in so much pain,” she said, adding, "I’m not sure how to go on. I know she contacted them and told them he kicked her and abused her, but the police told her they needed to see proof of the abuse. They told her there was no evidence and left it at that. I told the cops, ‘Now that my daughter is dead, you’re hunting for this man like dogs, but if you did more earlier — if you had listened to my daughter — she might be alive today.’ "
The NYPD press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Post's report. The tabloid's source adds that in the wake of the murders, "police brass reminded all cops that NYPD policy mandates that reports made in foreign languages must be translated into English."
