Drug Dealing Crack Dealing Illegal Immigrant Lies ??? Shocking Does Gavin have to personally repay the money spent ??? ... Does Anybody ??? If this is the Einstein who got caught, how many more are still running around SF?
If he had also insisted he was innocent, would they have let him go?
Drug Dealing Crack Dealing Illegal Immigrant Lies ??? Shocking Does Gavin have to personally repay the money spent ??? ... Does Anybody ???
When he was caught selling crack in San Francisco's Tenderloin in April, the Honduran immigrant who called himself Javier Martinez first told police he was 18. Then he said he was 16.
Because he insisted he was underage, police were duty-bound to take him to Juvenile Hall, where he would be shielded from deportation under the city's long-standing policy of not reporting juvenile offenders to federal immigration authorities. He was soon put up in a $7,000-a-month group home in Southern California at city taxpayer expense.
In short order, he became one of the eight offenders who walked away from unlocked homes in San Bernardino County, escapes that contributed to a national outcry over San Francisco's policies and prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce that the city would no longer afford juveniles a refuge from deportation. Four of the offenders are now back in custody - and Martinez is one of them, arrested in San Francisco for allegedly dealing drugs.
Martinez now says he was 25 all along, and that his true name is Jose Mendoza Cerrato. On Thursday, he pleaded guilty in adult court to drug dealing and is expected to be transferred to immigration authorities for possible deportation as soon as next month.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2008/08/30/MNR812GP8U.DTL
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