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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/99770_james13.shtml

INS deports sniper suspect's mother

Jamaican woman's deportation could mean she would not be allowed back

Friday, December 13, 2002

By HECTOR CASTRO
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Suspected serial sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's mother, who hired a smuggler two years ago to sneak her into the United States, has been deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The federal government took Una James into custody Wednesday, and she was flown from Seattle to Miami Thursday night en route to Jamaica, the Justice Department said.

Malvo, 17, and John Allen Muhammad are accused in sniper attacks that left 13 people dead. Muhammad is also a suspect in at least one local homicide, the shooting death of a Tacoma woman earlier this year.

James previously filed a petition to remain in the United States in the hope that she would be allowed to leave the country voluntarily. By doing so, she would reserve the possibility of one day re-entering legally. But in a secret immigration hearing last month, a judge denied that motion and ordered her deported.

She was supposed to have 30 days from the date of the Nov. 19 hearing to appeal.

Now, with her deportation, James could end up on a list of people who are not allowed to return to the United States, INS spokesman Garrison Courtney said.

"She may be inadmissible for a period of five years," he said, adding that was a general guideline and wouldn't necessarily apply to James.

James left Jamaica in late 2000 without Malvo, who stayed behind with Muhammad.

But the teen joined her a short time later. The two stayed for a time in Florida, but last year Malvo and Muhammad left for Bellingham.

James followed, and in December 2001 asked the local police for help getting her son away from Muhammad, whom she considered a dangerous influence.

Instead, police reported her to the Border Patrol and she was arrested.

After about a month in detention, the mother was released on $1,500 bail along with her son. But when he rejoined Muhammad, James was afraid to ask police for help again.

Investigators believe the two began the sniper shootings a few months later.


P-I reporter Hector Castro can be reached at 206-448-8126 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This report includes information from The Associated Press

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