BANGOR, Maine — A Canadian man just can’t stay out of the United States even though he has been deported six times since 1978.
Ian Owen Sharpe, 58, of Victoria, British Columbia, agreed Wednesday to be held without bail pending the outcome of his case.
Sharpe was arrested early Feb. 17 after he walked across the Ferry Point Bridge in Calais about 8 p.m. the previous day, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor. He produced no identification but gave his name as Paul Jay Say and a fake Social Security number.
Eventually, Sharpe produced his real identification information, which was hidden under the felt lining in one of his boots, the affidavit says.
After a national records check, it was determined that Sharpe was deported and/or removed from the U.S. seven times between 1978 and 2010. He has been convicted of immigration-related crimes in five different states — North Dakota, Kentucky, Florida, Texas and Maine.
Sharpe was last deported in June 2007. He was last convicted in 2000 in U.S. District Court in Fargo, N.D., for illegal re-entry after deportation and sentenced to eight years in prison.
He was last convicted of the same charge in Maine in 1983. Those court records were not available Wednesday through the electronic document filing system.
If convicted on the new charge, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
In the movie, Mrs. Doubtfire, Daniel Hillard (played by Robin Williams) transforms himself into the kindly Nanny(Euphegenia Doubtfire). He pulled the name of a newspaper headline-WHERE THE HECK did Mr. Sharpe grab- PAUL JAY SAY?
What’s he got against Canada?
Like Paul Jay Say wouldn’t turn up a red flag. My all time favorite is Karen from Will & Grace…….Anastasia Beaverhausen (Karen). Isn’t this guy getting a little old for attempting to pull off this crap?
Regina Phalange is my favorite ;)
Homeland Security in action. I went to Campobello last fall and had to show my passport to get back into Lubec
I don’t mind showing the passport, it’s all the other horsefeathers the gestapo has to mess with you about. Why were you in Canada?” “Um actually I was at my terrorist cell annual reunion party sir, we like to move it around!” “Did you purchase anything in Canada?” “Well, they had this little island, by the name of Prince Edward with views to die for, and I just had to have it!” “Do you have any fruits and vegetables?” ‘No, actually I was headed over to Grammy’s County Kitchen in Linneus, they have plenty there, no need to sneak in a potato sir”
Heck, drive down any road that parallels the boarder and you can walk across a farmers field and enter either country.
They’ll see you on the infrared via satellite :-/
All he’s gotta do is sail/fly to Mexico and walk across.
He could have helped his own case by just saying, “Si, senor” and pretending to not understand English.
Dont think the fines have slowed him down yet , i can tell you anybody can get into Canada in less than 5 minutes, but coming back into the United States is not so easy. I crossed into Canada via Niagra Falls , took less than 2 minutes. Getting back into US , 7 Hours, just because the paperwork for the company , 1 of only 6 allowed to broker loads into the US got sent to the VT. crossing by mistake . confiscated my drivers license until the correct paperwork got sent to broker office at the border. It may because of the dangerous load i was carrying, used worn out clothing that was coming back mto Maine to be turned into shop rags !
Too many hockey pucks to the head.
So, if he’s convicted and gets 20 years, or so, we have to pay for his incarceration versus sending him on his way back to Canada which seems to me to be a lot cheaper. How serious a crime is this that we need to pay for 20 years of room and board?
What did he do wrong in the first place that he should be excluded from the U.S.?
Because he’s not a citizen, He may also be on welfare rolls and you and I are paying for this person.
What is he smuggling ?
If he were smuggling, don’t you think he’d try to come over more than every 5 or 6 years?
Yeah, he was deported 6 times already…in a 34 year period!
What I’m wondering, like watchdogME, is why he isn’t allowed over here in the first place…
Are you too serious ?
Besides, all you know is that he was caught six times in 30 odd years, isn’t it, really ? .
Why are people so stupid?
Do they NOT know that GOD is watching….pretty sad
GOD HELP THEM & EVERYONE!!
JIM of MACHIAS!~!
Gees, maybe if the court convicts him and sends him to prison he can vote here too just like all the other convicted felons.
Give him what he wants. A 20 year stay in one of our pleasnt federal jails. Case closed.
Slow learner.
Related?
Wait let me get this right. It is illegal to enter this country without the right documents but people do it anyway even though they are breaking the law? This person has done it 6 times and been caught at least 5 times before but he is free to continue trying? Who would have though this was possible I for one am shocked?
Time this guy gets a satellite tracking chip :-/ It’d be cheaper then the three hots and a cot that us tax payers will be paying.. Then if he trys it again the chip pops the juggler ;-)
I’m wondering. Would the responses to this article be as muted as they are if this guy was Felix Arellano-Hernandez from Jalisco, Mexico instead of Ian Owen Sharpe of Vancouver?
No. The response would be to applaud Felix for overcoming adversity and challenge in order to come to the US to earn a hard, rugged living doing jobs American’s won’t do for even $50 per hour.
The Canadian medical that bad?????
Wait until summer then swim accross.. Geezzzzzzzz…
They’ll see you on the infrared via satellite :-/
Oh yeah, I forgot about that…..
I don’t believe Al-Qaeda would see the apparent humor we see in this. They potentially need only one successful pedestrian incursion with which to represent some form of threat.
From what I gather, we’re getting several hundred successful incursions on our Southern borders every week. It would seem to me that if Al Queerda really wanted to enter the US on foot, all they would need to do is cross the Rio Grande and say, “Si, senor”.
They likely already are…
I think the US government ought to use him as an intelligence mule to carry top secret info from other countries back to the US ! He obviously has the determination to get back to the US !
If he was sentenced five years in Fargo N.D. What was he doing walking around and entering the U. S. again. I guess they just put the sentencing in the papers and court records for show.
Good job judicial system.