Posted on 07/28/2012 12:36:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
MISSION HILLS {california} (CBS) — A career criminal who allegedly robbed six businesses in the San Fernando Valley was part of California’s early release prison program, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Francisco Gonzalez Jr., 39, was arrested Tuesday for evading police, car theft and robbery in Panorama City.
“This was not (his) first pursuit, first robbery, nor first brush with the law,” said Lt. Paul Vernon of the Mission Detective Division.
“And since this arrest, we have tied (him) to five other recent store robberies across the San Fernando Valley,” he said.
Vernon said the frustrating part was finding out the suspect was one of the early-release convicts under AB 109, which was supposed to help prison overcrowding.
He said the suspect’s release was based on a prior police pursuit conviction, without any consideration to his 1999 8-count, 13-year sentence for robbery.
Before his arrest Tuesday, Gonzalez had contact with LAPD on July 4 for altering his car registration and with CHP on July 12 in Newhall for disorderly conduct, according to the LAPD.
“So the community got a career robber released under toothless parole conditions,” Vernon said. “And just as the leopard does not change his spots, (he) went right back to his MO, robbing and evading police.”
Gonzalez is now back in jail facing new felonies.
If convicted, he could get 25 years to life in prison.
This year, the Mission Hills community has seen 146 convicts released into the area.
Twenty of those convicts have been arrested at least one time.
The California state fish is the Sucker.
They swim upstream to spawn in Sacramento.
They feed on other people’s money.
They’re bottom dwellers. They’re in the dark so much that they’ve become blind.
Their priority is welfare over law enforcement...so this is what they get.
Sickening. Look how much time and money it’s gonna cost to catch and retry all these early release thugs not to mention the lives and property it puts at risk. It’s truly and utterly sickening.
. . . and save the taxpayers a boatload on money.
Hasn't early release been pushed on the state by court rulings prisons were overcrowded?
Californians will be buying many more guns now that the criminals are being let out of prison. Mark my words. When the State puts their citizens at risk, the citizens will get busy.
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