Posted on 10/25/2016 6:51:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
WOFFORD HEIGHTS, Calif. — Angel Gilberto Garcia-Avalos had been deported five times in just the past four years, yet each time he has managed to sneak from Mexico back into the U.S., where he ended up in more mischief: driving without a license, attempted burglary and felony weapons charges.
In August, he graduated to full-fledged mayhem, sparking a fire in the Sequoia National Forest that has already cost the government $61 million and left some of the country’s most beautiful landscape scarred for years to come.
Garcia, who pleaded guilty last month and faces 13 months in prison, had only recently been released from the Kern County Jail. He likely would have been deported again, but local authorities were unable to report him to immigration authorities because of California’s new sanctuary city law, which prohibited the sheriff from communicating with federal agents.
Federal agents now say they will kick Garcia out of the country once he serves his latest sentence, but the damage has already been done.
At a point along State Highway 155 through the Sequoia National Forest, the smell of cedar gives way to the stench of soot. Ash-blackened trees above and below the roadway show the path of the blaze.
Investigators determined that the spark came from a Nissan Maxima that Garcia was driving over a rough dirt trail near Cedar Creek. Garcia tried to drive over a berm and hit a tree. The hot muffler on his car ignited grass parched by years of drought, investigators said in an account filed in federal court.
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Sorry..that's my opinion.
Third deportation from 30,000 feet would greatly reduce this problem.
When President Trump ends all Federal money going to California the howls will be music to my ears.
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A rap sheet like that, then causing a $61,000,000 fire and only 13 months? What Bull***t!!!! Any US citizen would never see the light of day again and would have to repay the 61 million. What pure CRAP, and it must stop.
Oops!
I think if they put him in jail, the motor voter fraud act says that they have to offer him the opportunity to register to vote.
Bump!
Wait until SF has it’s next big earthquake. Outside of medical help I’d tell them they’re on their own.
Throw him into the fIRE.
But the Hammonds got 5 years for a controlled backburn that burned a couple of acres and stopped a lightening caused wildfire.
Mexico needs to pay the bill, period.
Excellent point...The 0bama administration is not only criminal but traitorous.
Couple of Oregon ranchers in jail for 5 years for burning weeds.
Take the ba$tard back to the Sequoia National Forest and swing his worthless @$$ from one of the trees.
Realistically, probably not the first, even if inadvertently. Of course, there are those who are disgruntled as well.
“At one point while Garcia was talking with the ranchers, a glass methamphetamine pipe fell out of his pocket and he quickly moved to conceal it, Forest Service Special Agent Brian A. Adams wrote.”
This POS is probably back there cooking meth and growing pot in our forests.
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Federal agents now say they will kick Garcia out of the country once he serves his latest sentence, but the damage has already been done.
Whew!!!! For a minute there I didn't think they'd do much. /s
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