"Records show Garcia-Morales was most recently deported March 3 to Mexico and previously forced to leave the United States on Sept. 27, 2004; April 15, 2004; Dec. 31, 2003; Oct. 4, 2003 and July 29, 2003. He was voluntarily deported Aug. 23, 2000.
Records show Garcia-Morales was convicted in September 2005 in Arizona on an illegal re-entry charge and sentenced to eight months in prison.
A year earlier he was arrested driving a 1989 Lincoln "loaded with concealed (smuggled) aliens" on Interstate 10 near Picaco, Ariz., records show.
Records also show Garcia-Morales was convicted of misdemeanor drug possession in Las Vegas in February 2000 and sentenced to 45 days as part of a plea agreement after he was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of an unregistered firearm and drawing a deadly weapon in a threatening manner.
2006-09-08
15:07:27
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Assistant U.S. Attorney James Brooks said at the Friday hearing that if Garcia-Morales is convicted, the maximum possible penalty is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine."
So, this is enforcement? They didn't even prosecute the human smuggling charge!
What do you think?
2006-09-08
15:08:32 ·
update #1
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5356702&nav=menu216_3_5
2006-09-08
15:28:04 ·
update #2