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A guy by the name of Carlos Simon-Timmerman is a New York native. He’s also a fan of my friend and ultra hottie Lupe Fuentes. He was vacationing and bought one of Lupe’s DVDs while in Venezuela. He stopped in Puerto Rico on his way home to New York and that’s where things get ugly. According to Radar Online (and a ton of other sources which verify the story) he was arrested and charged with illegal possession and transporation of images involving a minor. The problem is, the images he had weren’t of an underage girl, they were of Lupe Fuentes. Lupe is currently 20 years old. She’s done some suggestive modelling prior to 18 but nothing that constitutes as porn. The DVD in question is called Little Lupe the Innocent: Don’t be fooled by her Baby Face and was made when Lupe was 19. Simon-Timmerman spent 2 months in jail and was on the road to conviction. Hearing of his flight, Lupe flew to Puerto Rico to prove beyond any question that she was of age and that she had been of age for over a year when the DVD in question was made.

You might think, how could this happen? I mean, it’s pretty easy to look her up on the Internet (I mean, she only has a few thousand twitter followers for instance). Anyone concerned with the truth could determine that she was of age by spending about 2 minutes on the internet. So how exactly did this happen?

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was the problem.  From what I understand, being an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent makes you an expert on all sorts of things which apparently includes Knowing the Ages of Porn Stars. The agent in question

had testified that Fuentes was “definitely” under the age of 18 in the video, as well as testimony from a pediatrician that had deemed her 100% underage; both of which Fuentes proved wrong when she showed up in court.

The agent was the one that caused the arrest and the agent’s testimony is what did him in.  The agent then went out and found an ‘expert’ to back up his story (Honest, I’m absolutely shocked that an agent would find some hack with credentials to help engage in a witch hunt).  Based solely on the statements by the Agent at first, Simon-Timmerman was arrested and once the agent dragged in his expert, the stage was set for this guy to go down. 

Lucky for Simon-Timmerman, his attorney was able to find Lupe and being the humanitarian that she is, she immediately flew down to help him out.  For the record, the Agent in question wasn’t the one who found her and the Agent never bothered to contact her or anyone representing her.

Think about what your life would be like.. You take a vacation and are scheduled to be back a week later.  You don’t return.  All that gets back to your office is that you were touring Latin America and were arrested for possession of child pornography.  What would you think if that’s all you heard and you were his boss?  What if all you knew was that he was arrested and there was a Federal Agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement who repeatedly verified that your employee was in possession of child porn?  You’d no doubt fire the guy.  Now imagine being stuck in another country arreseted for a very serious crime. At the same time, you’re not able to keep your job and bring in any income. You could claim you were innocent but with a Federal Agent forcefully testifying you were in possession of child porn, who would believe you? Even if you got free after 2 months, you’re still in a world of crap.  You spend 2 months without work and a ton of money on attorneys just to keep from spending the rest of your adult life in jail.

The Agent in question easily could have checked into this. It’s plainly obvious when the DVD was produced.  Before ruining a guy’s life with what’s probably the worst accusation you could make against someone, you’d think the agent would have at least done a little bit of homework.  In the entire 2 months of time, the Agent had plenty of time to follow up on this.  But no, he didn’t.  If Simon-Timmerman was poorer and couldn’t afford such a good attorney, he never would have been able to contact  Lupe and would almost certainly be doing time based on this agent and doctor’s enthusiastic testimony.  Thank God he wasn’t poor and helpless.

So let me see if I get this straight.  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement jumps to the wrong conclusion  and goes on a witch hunt against an innocent man.  The same agent trolls around until he could find an expert that would ‘agree’ with his statement.  The agent makes claims of certainty that Lupe couldn’t possibly be of age( based on his extensive education I’m sure) which could have cost an innocent man a good chunk of his life and the agent never bothered to follow up on any of it.

I’m absolutely shocked that ICE Agents are this arbitrary and capricious – shocked and amazed I tell you. I’m absolutely shocked an ICE agent would abuse his position to hassle someone – say it ain’t so.. an ICE Agent would never do any of this.  I’m absolutely shocked an ICE Agent would make criminal accusations against someone without even determing for sure that a crime had been committed.  I’m absolutely shocked that an ICE Agent would find some hack ‘expert’ to facilitate the witch hunt. I’m absolutely shocked the ICE Agent was willing to destroy someone by making definitive statements they never bothered to verify. And I’m really absolutely shocked that a private citizen would have to spend a bunch of money defending himself against a bunch of dishonest and idiotic charges made by a venerable agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.   The only thing missing is few legally meaningless cease and desist demands from the agent to each web site publishing information about this incident.  The mere mention of an Agent’s name no doubt endangers the agent’s life and the lives of the Agent’s family right? And look at all those spam links discussing this story – Simon-Timmerman must no doubt be behind it all. Radar Online better watch out or they’ll get hassled by cop friends of the Agent.

Yah, honestly, this all just completely shocks me. It’s patently obvious this sort of stuff is freaking institutional at ICE  I really honestly can’t believe an ICE Agent would engage in behavior like this.

[tags]Carlos Simon-Timmerman, Lupe Fuentes, Little Lupe, Little Lupe the Innocent, ICE Agent Abuses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Abuses[/tags]