Posted on 03/02/2020 10:04:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Felony charges were filed Monday against a 25-year-old man accused of stealing a Lincoln Navigator hearse with a woman’s body inside from in front of a church in East Pasadena.
James Juarez pleaded not guilty to one felony count each of fleeing a peace officer’s vehicle while driving recklessly and driving or taking a vehicle without consent.
Juarez, who is being held on $35,000 bail, was ordered to return to court on March 13, when a date is expected to be set for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.
If convicted as charged, he faces a maximum sentence of more than three years in prison, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Juarez is accused of stealing the black SUV around 8:05 p.m. last Wednesday from in front of St. Anthony Greek Orthodox Church in the 700 block of South Rosemead Blvd., prompting a plea from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to return it and the body.
“Out of all the bad decisions you have made, at least make one good one & bring back the deceased person & casket inside the Navigator,” the Sheriff’s Department tweeted that night.
About 7:35 the following morning, someone spotted the Navigator and notified authorities, and Los Angeles Police Department officers began chasing the vehicle near 23rd and Figueroa streets.
The chase went onto the nearby southbound Harbor (110) Freeway, and the Navigator crashed about 7:50 a.m. on the freeway near Vernon Avenue. At least one other vehicle was involved in the crash, and one person was taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.
The casket and body were inside the SUV, and Juarez was taken into custody.
The driver had left the keys to the Navigator in the ignition with the engine running when he stopped by the church, sheriff’s officials said.
At the time of his arrest, officials said Juarez was from Montclair. But in a Monday statement, the District Attorney’s Office said he’s a transient.
Graham Parsons redo.
WHY ARE WE ALLOWING CITIZENS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
WHO ENTER US ILLEGALLY GRANT THEM RIGHTS
THAT THEIR COUNTRY DENY US HAVING
WHEN WE ENTER THEIRS LEGALLY TO VISIT OR RETIRE ???
The issue of sovereignty should not be allowed to get twisted into being propagandized as “White Nationalism”. Use of that term is usually directed when the immigration issue is brought up to devalue of the protections an American citizen have by being one. When allowing the hordes illegally entering the US through the Mexican border avoid enforcing the reciprocal 2nd class treatment that American citizens get while legally residing in Mexico which of course also includes denial of voting privileges..
Today’s so called democrats insist Americans must allow illegals storm in here by the hundreds of thousands despite their cost to us of billion$ in tax dollars,which is never enough. Tax money that should be going to our citizens for their sustenance,health,education,and housing even infrastructure needs. But Americans must do the tax flagellating punishment because we’re the very rich United States and must divert those billion$ to fill the needs of those poor illegals plus give them the right to vote. Sustained by our tax money which our children’s children if not aborted will be paying for.?
Besides flooding the labor market with cheap labor which reduces job opportunities for American citizens in a diminishing base. Highly infectious communicable diseases are also pouring through this uncontrolled border creating serious health problems.
This destructive utopian Mexican open border approach of even considering granting those who enter the US illegally through it. Entitlement to all benefits way beyond those of what Mexicans give to our citizens in Mexico destroys the value of an American citizenship. It is being promoted by the name callers in socialist circles known as the democrat party as well some republicans who use such terms as “nativist” promoting racial division .
What we should be doing is taking a very very hard look at our relationship with Mexico along with trade and its myriad miss treatment of Americans as 3rd class citizens and its claims on American territory . There is no doubt there are hundreds of complaints, if not thousands, from American citizens who have retired there. Along with travelers running to American consulates about conditions that are going unreported because of this Mexican policy
Why are we expected to allow Mexican citizens enter to our country illegally and offer them preferential treatment over our citizens allowing them to purchase land in their own name and voting privileges when an American cannot do either if they choose to retire in Mexico ?
Check the precinct list of registered voters where these people resided. If they’re on that list, Federal crime, charge them and those that enabled them to vote knowing they were illegals. If enough noise is made it should discourage illegals still here from voting. Besides determining how they got a drivers license.
I thought it said horse thief.
Hang ‘em high! That’s what we do to . . .
Oh, wait. Never mind.
He won’t be sentenced to any time. He won’t even show up in court. La Raza lawyers will get him released and assist him in departing the country, so he can get papers with a new name.
Let me see. You get caught driving a stolen hearse with a body in it.. At the hearing you plead not guilty. What? You weren’t driving the hearse with the body in it? Nice try!!! Ooops this is California and your Hispanic so you probably are not guilty..
Are you friggen kidding me?
This hombre has prolly already left town.
Yeah, we hung hearse thieves back in my day.
Hang him
“....a Lincoln Navigator hearse with a woman’s body inside...”
Does this qualify him for the HOV lane?
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