6:18 PM, Oct. 4, 2011
In September 2010, a murder victim was found inside a burning automobile
in Atlantic County. Shortly after, his alleged killers fled to Cuba.
Little more than a year later, U.S. marshals traveled to Havana and
returned the suspects to New Jersey to face trial.
Thirty-eight years ago, a young New Jersey state trooper in only his
third year of service was brutally executed on the shoulder of the New
Jersey Turnpike. JoAnne Chesimard was convicted of the cold-blooded
murder of Trooper Werner Foerster, but she escaped from prison and was
grant asylum in Cuba.
I ask: Why is a convicted cop-killer still being protected by the Cuban
government? Why hasn't the United States applied more pressure to Cuba
to force her return to incarceration?
Chesimard was one of three terrorists in the car pulled over that day by
Trooper Foerster for what he thought was a routine traffic stop. Moments
later he lay bleeding on the side of the road, the victim of a hail of
bullets fired by Chesimard and her followers. Chesimard then finished
the deed, executing Trooper Foerster with a gunshot to the head.
I again join with law enforcement officials and call on President Barack
Obama to demand the immediate extradition of Chesimard.
Today, two suspects sit behind bars in an Atlantic County jail awaiting
their trial. Chesimard has already had her day before a jury. Now it's
time she finally pays for her heinous crime.
Joseph H. Vicari
Ocean County Freeholder Director
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