Prisoner Released to ICE Suspected Of 1988 Murder
Aaron Wilmot
July 19, 2008
In a strange criminal justice story from out of the San Francisco bay area, a woman who is suspected in the 1988 murder of a San Francisco police officer has been released from prison in Florida and turned over to ICE custody. The woman has been identified as one Catherine Kuntz. She is age 44 and is also a Scottish citizen, according to the reports.
Kuntz is suspected of the murder of a San Francisco police officer and Concord resident Lester Garnier. All told, officer Garnier was found in a parking lot of the Ross Clothing Store chain, having apparently died from recieving gun shot wounds. The location of the Ross Clothing Store is 1295 South Main Street and the police department is also seeking the public´s help in gathering information and had one witness that had told them after the gun fire that they saw a woman get out of the blue 1984 Chevrolet Corvette Garnier was driving.
The gun that shot the fatal shots which killed Garnier in this appalling murder case has been identified as an AMT semiautomatic pistol. This information was obtained from a report directly from the Walnut Creek Police Department.
Kuntz, who was living in the area at the time has a long and sordid criminal history of prostitution and drugs, and one of her finger prints was found on Garnier´s car. All in all, the San Francisco Police department has expended six years investigating why the fingerprint in question was found on the car and how she is actually involved in the murder. By the way more legal headlines can be found at the Travel and legal News Blog
Along the way there have been a lot of strange twists indeed as this winding road of an investigation has progressed. To this date the police department has not announced an actual direct connection per say between Kuntz and Garnier´s murder and with her in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement it will be determined if she is eligible for deportation according to their spokes person in their Miami office, Nicole Navas.
Some of the other charges that Kuntz has faced have been a one year sentence for cocaine possession, which was the most recent of all the charges against her. In addition to this, she was tried in Virginia for attempted murder and arranging the murder of Gregory Kuntz, her husband. A real black widow, this one. However, in an odd twist, Kuntz was acquitted after her husband testified in her defense. Why he did so was a mystery, but he may not have been aware of all the facts.
Kuntz is suspected of the murder of a San Francisco police officer and Concord resident Lester Garnier. All told, officer Garnier was found in a parking lot of the Ross Clothing Store chain, having apparently died from recieving gun shot wounds. The location of the Ross Clothing Store is 1295 South Main Street and the police department is also seeking the public´s help in gathering information and had one witness that had told them after the gun fire that they saw a woman get out of the blue 1984 Chevrolet Corvette Garnier was driving.
The gun that shot the fatal shots which killed Garnier in this appalling murder case has been identified as an AMT semiautomatic pistol. This information was obtained from a report directly from the Walnut Creek Police Department.
Kuntz, who was living in the area at the time has a long and sordid criminal history of prostitution and drugs, and one of her finger prints was found on Garnier´s car. All in all, the San Francisco Police department has expended six years investigating why the fingerprint in question was found on the car and how she is actually involved in the murder. By the way more legal headlines can be found at the Travel and legal News Blog
Along the way there have been a lot of strange twists indeed as this winding road of an investigation has progressed. To this date the police department has not announced an actual direct connection per say between Kuntz and Garnier´s murder and with her in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement it will be determined if she is eligible for deportation according to their spokes person in their Miami office, Nicole Navas.
Some of the other charges that Kuntz has faced have been a one year sentence for cocaine possession, which was the most recent of all the charges against her. In addition to this, she was tried in Virginia for attempted murder and arranging the murder of Gregory Kuntz, her husband. A real black widow, this one. However, in an odd twist, Kuntz was acquitted after her husband testified in her defense. Why he did so was a mystery, but he may not have been aware of all the facts.
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