Denver, United States.
A Mexican on the list of 10 most wanted undocumented criminals He was recently detained in the Denver area by specialist federal agents for more than a decade, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) reported on Monday. of the United States.
According to the authorities Luis Enrique Guzmán Rincón, 29 years old, lived in Aurora, east of Denver, where he was detained on April 9 by uniformed officers from ICE’s Immigration Law Enforcement and Arrest Operations (ERO) group.
Guzmán Rincón was found in 2012 Guilty by an Aparahoe County Court of Attempted Murder on December 6, 2010 from a student for the Aurora Central School, where Guzmán was present.
The court also found him guilty of six other charges related to that incident, including “ extreme indifference to life, ” and ultimately the Mexican was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
The victim, Karina Vargas, when 16 years old, she was paralyzed. Vargas, without any connection to his attacker, was shot in the back while resting in front of the school and showing his friends his new pet.
According to the police report, Guzmán Rincón intentionally fired at the students from a moving car to earn a place in a gang operating in Denver and mountain towns in western Colorado fighting for “territory control” against another gang whose members wore colors similar to the victim’s hair and who had attacked Guzmán. the head.
In November 2015, the local appeals court overturned the ruling against Guzmán Rincón in the absence of effective legal advice because, upon hearing of threats against the jury, the judge isolated the jury without consulting the defense. The Colorado Supreme Court later upheld that ruling.
Despite ICE’s request to detain him, he was released.
In September 2017In his second trial for the 2010 attack, Guzmán Rincón was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to three years in prison, but he was immediately released due to the time he was already in prison. Again, according to ICE, the request to transfer him to agency custody was not honored.
From then on, Guzmán Rincón was on the ICE Most Wanted List because he was a convicted criminal and because he was considered “a clear threat to Aurora’s public safety”.
“Our commitment is to identify and remove gang members and those who pose a threat to the security of our community,” said John Fabbricatore, director of the ERO field office in Denver
“Guzmán paralyzed a minor during the violence to join a gang. His daring disregard for young people’s lives put him on the list of Ten most searched by ICE and therefore his arrest was a priority, ”he added.
While Guzmán cannot be tried for the attack on Vargas, his sentence could be up to 48 years in prison if convicted of all charges pending against him.