Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Anyone with any information on the arson fire is
asked to call the Columbus Crime Stoppers at (614)
645-8477 or (877) 645-8477. Spanish speaking callers
can use either telephone number and speak to an
operator fluent in Spanish. Also, you may contact
La Voz de Aztlan at La_Voz@Aztlan.Net with
any iformation you may have and we will relay
it to the proper authorities.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (ATF) announced a reward of up to $20,000
for information leading to the arrest and conviction
of those responsible for the fire.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department also
announced rewards totaling up to $30,000, with
American Electric Power and RLJ Management Co., owner
of Lincoln Park West, each providing $15,000. These
rewards will be administered through Crime Stoppers.

These rewards are in addition to the previous reward
of up to $7,000 offered by the Blue Ribbon Arson Task
Force and Crime Stoppers now making a total of up to
$57,000 available to help solve this crime.

“This type of crime cannot and will not be
tolerated,” said Christopher P. Sadowski, Special
Agent in Charge of ATF’s Columbus Field Division.
“Hopefully this reward will bring forward information
that can assist us in identifying and prosecuting the
individual(s) responsible for this tragedy.”

“We are asking for the help of the community around
the Lincoln Park West Apartment Complex, and request
that anyone who might have information come forward
to help us solve this horrific crime,” said Steve
Martin, Chief Deputy of the Franklin County Sheriff’s
Department.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, the Ohio
State Fire Marshal’s Office and ATF are continuing in
their joint effort to bring those responsible to
justice.

Yesterday, in an extraordinary 10 hour session of the
Mexican Congress, the Lower House passed a resolution
urging President Vicente Fox to instruct the
Secretary of Foreign Relations, Luis Ernesto Derbez,
to send a diplomatic communique to the US Department
of State requesting progress reports on the
investigations of the above arson fire and on the
drowning of three Mexican women in the Rio Grande by
two US Border Patrol agents. The session was led by
Congresswoman Guadalupe Suárez Ponce of the State of
Guanajuato which is the state of origin of the three
drowned Mexican women and of the 10 immigrants that
died in the Columbus, Ohio arson fire. President
Vicente Fox is also from Guanajuato.

The 10 hour congressional session inluded "a minute
of silence" in memory of the three drowned women and
of the 10 burned immigrants that included an entire
family consisting of a mother, father and three
babies. La Voz de Aztlan is encouraging our
readership to disseminate this article as widely as
possible through your own networks. This was one way
that five anti-Mexican arsonists were captured and
put in jail after they burned a home of a Mexican
family in Farmingville, New York on July 5, 2003. The
arson was committed soon after the vile vigilante and
bigot Glenn Spencer conducted a series of
anti-Mexican rallies in the town.