Why Wasn’t Southie Murder Suspect Deported? Court Documents Offer Answer
BOSTON — Court documents confirm reports that a Boston Municipal Court judge crossed out the original 365-day sentence first issued to a convicted bank robber and West African immigrant now charged with the murders of two South Boston doctors, preventing his automatic deportation.
Records show that Bampumim Teixeira, 30, charged with last Friday's murders of doctors Lina Bolanos, 38, and Richard Field, 49, pleaded guilty last fall to a series of bank robberies. Teixeira, who was living in Chelsea and had worked as a security guard at the luxury condominium complex where Bolanos and Field lived, entered the United States legally by first moving from his native Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verde, later obtaining a Green Card because his aunt was living in Massachusetts. Green Card status, however, can be revoked as result of certain forms of criminal activity.
