Nevada Sheriff Defies Judge to Keep 35-Arrest Violent Offender Behind Bars

Sanchez-Lopez faces charges for battery causing substantial bodily harm, another entry in a long criminal record of 35 prior arrests, including violent offenses.

Judge Goodman authorized release with electric monitoring and a $5,000 bail, an order rejected by McMahill to keep Sanchez-Lopez in custody, arguing that the risk to the community outweighed the court's directive.

Sanchez-Lopez's record stretches across years of encounters with law enforcement. Charges have included robbery, assault, theft, and drug crimes. Police reports tied the most recent arrest to a violent attack that left a victim with serious injuries requiring hospital treatment and charges for battery with substantial bodily harm. Despite his history and the latest charges, Judge Goodman still permitted release under electronic monitoring conditions.

Sanchez-Lopez reportedly posted bail on January 24, but the Las Vegas police refused to place him in the program, given his history of failing to comply with the rules. Attorneys for Metro filed a petition last week challenging the judge’s authority to release him, arguing that the Department has the authority to declare a defendant too dangerous to release.
In a letter to the court, the department gave three reasons for refusing the judge’s order.
– Sanchez-Lopez’s history of failing to appear in court
– His previous bench warrants
– His past violations of electronic monitoring rules
Police cited a case in 2020, where Sanchez-Lopez, armed with a gun, ran from the cops and later joked about his ankle monitor on Snapchat and gloated about being “chased again.”
“We have to take a look at that and say, ‘Is this somebody who our electronic supervision program can monitor safely in the community?” Mike Dickerson, assistant general counsel for Metro police, told KLAS. “This is an issue of public safety.”

THIS is what Sanchez-Lopez needs to hear:

“Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flee away, the ice will vanish, and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, the annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass — but you won’t be there.
“The rivulet will run its soaring course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the rose. Still, you won’t be here to see it.

“From every treetop some wild woods songster will carol his mating song; butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happy as it pursues its accustomed vacation; the gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses, and all nature will be glad — but you.
“You won’t be here to enjoy it because I command the sheriff to lead you out to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a knotting bough of some sturdy oak, and let you hang until you are dead.

“And then, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officers retire quickly from your dangling corpse, so that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing shall remain but bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, bloodthirsty, throat-cutting, murdering son of a bitch.”

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