Wed Sep 30,
2020
Lloyd Billingsley
Last week, U.S. District
Judge Morrison C. England sentenced Ismael Huazo-Jardinez to 15 months in
prison for “possessing a firearm while being an alien unlawfully in the United
States.” As U.S.
Attorney McGregor Scott explained , “Huazo-Jardinez is a citizen and
national of Mexico who has twice been removed from the United States and
has not been granted permission to return. As an alien unlawfully in the
United States, Huazo-Jardinez is prohibited by federal statute from
possessing a firearm.” The prison-bound Mexican, as it happens, has yet to face
trial on the original criminal charges that led to discovery of that firearm.
On May 4, 2019 in
Knight’s Landing, California, north of Sacramento, Huazo-Jardinez crashed his
Chevrolet Avalanche into a mobile home, killing Jose Pacheco, 38, Anna Pacheco,
34, their 10-year-old son Angel Pacheco, and critically injuring daughter
Mariana Pacheco, 11. The driver’s blood-alcohol level was .122, far above the
legal limit.
The drunk tried to flee
but neighbors tackled him and held him for police. They sought triple
manslaughter and felony DUI charges, but the illegal caught a break when Sutter
County judge David Ashby, a 2016 appointee of Gov. Jerry Brown, allowed
Huazo-Jardinez to post bail. The Mexican national promptly fled but Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended him on May 7.
In the cab of the
Mexican’s Chevrolet Avalanche police found a handgun that had been reported
stolen in Boise, Idaho. At the illegal’s Yuba City residence police found a
second stolen firearm registered to a resident of Colusa County. A search of
the residence also turned up 9mm ammunition, $12,000 in cash and more than two
dozen cell phones. Police also found a Mexican passport and a bag packed with
clothes, signs that the triple manslaughter suspect was preparing to flee the
country.
According to ICE
spokesman Paul Prince , “Ismael Huazo-Jardinez is an illegally
present Mexican national. The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended him in Arizona and
granted him voluntary return to Mexico in February 2011. . . He illegally
re-entered at some point thereafter.”
On May 28, Sutter County
officials charged the illegal alien with three counts of gross vehicular
manslaughter while intoxicated and two counts of driving under the influence of
alcohol causing injury, with four enhancements for great bodily injury or
death. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed the gun charges, and those resulted in
a conviction and sentence before Sutter County launched proceedings on action
on the manslaughter charges. From the start, Sutter County authorities were not
exactly eager to pursue justice for slain victims Jose, Anna, and Angel
Pacheco, and the injured Mariana.
It is highly unusual for
a triple manslaughter suspect to be granted bail, particularly when he has
already attempted to flee the scene of the crime. Judge Ashby granted bail to
Huazo-Jardinez and it remains unclear who ponied up the $30,000 that allowed
the Mexican to flee. On the other hand, if he had been kept in custody, the
state’s sanctuary law would have barred Sutter County officials from handing
the illegal to ICE. Fortunately, a federal Fugitive Operations Team captured
the illegal before he could flee to Mexico.
In May, 2020,
Huazo-Jardinz pleaded
guilty to the gun charges and has now been sentenced to 15
months in prison. That all took place during a pandemic so locals wonder about
the lethargy of state officials on the triple manslaughter charges. The case
recalls Gustavo Perez Arriaga, also known as Paulo Virgen Mendoza, a Mexican
gang member illegally present in the United States.
This criminal gunned down
Newman, California, police
officer Ronil Singh on December 26, 2018. Three illegals who
helped Arriaga flee were tried and convicted in federal court before September
1, 2020, when his murder trial was slated to begin but didn’t. Judge Ricardo
Cordova, a 2003 appointee of Democrat governor Gray Davis, delayed the trial
until well after the November 3 election. If Californians thought that was the
real reason for delay it would be hard to blame them. President Trump mentioned
the Singh case, and the deaths of the Pachecos shows the need for border
enforcement.
Violent criminals abound
in California and the state has no need to import them. Ismael Huazo-Jardinez,
or whatever his real name is, was not supposed to be in the United States in
the first place. He violated U.S. immigration law, gun laws, and his felony DUI
claimed three innocent lives. As landlord Frankie
Gonsalves told reporters , the Pachecos were a “model family. Two
very hardworking parents, farmworkers, well-behaved kids. Really good people,
pay their rent on time.” Now only Mariana remains.
California Gov. Gavin
Newsom, who in 2019 reprieved
737 convicted murderers , including cop-killer Luis Bracamontes, did
not speak publicly about the Pacheco family. Attorney general Xavier Becerra,
once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running mate, failed to mention the
case. Under California’s sanctuary law, the protection of violent criminals
always takes priority over justice for their victims and the safety of the
people.
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