Last week, three men and one woman were indicted in connection with an incident where an undercover police officer’s vehicle was fired upon.
A four-count federal indictment was unsealed, charging Tucson residents, Hassan Omar Kassim, 19, Alexandra Brooke Wisdom, 19, Daniel Cardenas, 18, and Jaquvon Terell Poe, 20 with crimes related to shooting at a Tucson Police Department (TPD) Officer in April of this year.
Cardenas is charged with Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, Kassim and Poe are charged with Aiding and Abetting the crime, and all three are charged with Conspiracy to Commit this offense. Wisdom was charged with Accessory After the Fact.
On April 20, 2025, a TPD Officer was working as a member of the Operations Division West (ODW) Community Response Team (CRT) around Stone Avenue and Fort Lowell in Tucson, Arizona. The officer was in plain clothes and driving an unmarked City of Tucson vehicle when he observed a dark colored car traveling southbound at a high rate of speed. The officer was able to get behind the vehicle and broadcast its license plate to other members of ODW CRT. The driver of the car then made a turn and an individual, later identified as Daniel Cardenas, leaned out of the rear driver’s side window and shot at the unmarked TPD vehicle. The driver then made another u-turn and Cardenas fired additional shots at the unmarked officer’s vehicle. The officer was unharmed. A marked patrol officer responded to the area and attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver failed to yield and, after a short pursuit, officers lost sight of the car.
Through further investigation, detectives and special agents were able to identify Hassan Omar Kassim as the driver of the car at time of the shooting, and Jaquvon Terell Poe as the rear passenger-side occupant. Officers learned that Alexandra Brooke Wisdom later drove the car to abandon it, removing items from the vehicle in the process, some of which were recovered in her apartment.
Mr. Pygalgic Curmudgeon;
Please educate yourself of why Federal Law Enforcement’s creation of Fed/State/Local Task Forces were specifically created in 1994 via the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill. This Bill was a direct response to the U.S. crime epidemic of Violent Crime and the Drug Trade.
It was very clear that the creation of these Federally Funded Task Forces were specially requested by the State/Local Law Enforcement because the States couldn’t combat violent drug trafficking and associated crimes by themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act
Then 2 years later the Feds realized that these Task Forces found that the majority of the criminals running these violent gangs were illegal aliens who, after arrest by the Task Force, would just re-enter the U.S. illegally and resume their violent criminal operation.
Congress saw this and responded with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996(IRAIRA).
The 1996 IRAIRA act removed the loopholes that criminal aliens used and it strengthened U.S. Immigration Law in order to fight violent and drug trafficking crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996
Charging a Local Crime Federally doesn’t usurp a State’s authority. It allows for a stronger prosecutorial effort to combat violent crimes and saves the States money.
Let me see here. This is Pima County and as such, are they out on bail and have fled the country yet? Or were they released without bail? Inquiring minds want to know.
Put them in jail for however long, fine, but “federal charges”? This type of law enforcement is not within the Constitutional purview of the fedgov. City, sure. County, yeah, ok. State, no problemo. If we keep using ‘federal’ whatever as a shortcut to getting what we want we are building up an omni-present federal hegemony that will rule us all, by fiat, from D.C. We have federalism for a reason.
The road to hell is paved with what, now?
4 more genuine idiots that need to be put away. Lets see what Conover does with them.🤔