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2016-10-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Sanctuary city illegal immigrant sparks $61M fire in national forest

[Wash Times] WOFFORD HEIGHTS, Calif. -- Angel Gilberto Garcia-Avalos had been deported five times in just the past four years, yet each time he has managed to sneak from Mexico back into the U.S., where he ended up in more mischief: driving without a license, attempted burglary and felony weapons charges.

In August, he graduated to full-fledged mayhem, sparking a fire in the Sequoia National Forest that has already cost the government $61 million and left some of the country's most beautiful landscape scarred for years to come.

Garcia, who pleaded guilty last month and faces 13 months in prison, had only recently been released from the Kern County Jail. He likely would have been deported again, but local authorities were unable to report him to immigration authorities because of California's new sanctuary city law, which prohibited the sheriff from communicating with federal agents.

Federal agents now say they will kick Garcia out of the country once he serves his latest sentence, but the damage has already been done.

At a point along State Highway 155 through the Sequoia National Forest, the smell of cedar gives way to the stench of soot. Ash-blackened trees above and below the roadway show the path of the blaze.

Investigators determined that the spark came from a Nissan Maxima that Garcia was driving over a rough dirt trail near Cedar Creek. Garcia tried to drive over a berm and hit a tree. The hot muffler on his car ignited grass parched by...
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Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-27 01:40|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 At this point, let him work off his debt to society replanting the forest. When the last tree and understory plant is clearly thriving, drop him off in Mexico City with just the clothes on his back.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-27 05:47|| 2016-10-27 05:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps he can be used to fertilize the new forest.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-10-27 07:53|| 2016-10-27 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Tack it onto the bill for the "Wall" and send it to Mexico.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-10-27 08:57|| 2016-10-27 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 So, no question as to why dude was just out driving on dirt roads?

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-10-27 10:56|| 2016-10-27 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 He was going to work. It was an agricultural job.

Posted by Pappy 2016-10-27 11:20|| 2016-10-27 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Uh huh, cash cropper.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-10-27 11:37|| 2016-10-27 11:37|| Front Page Top

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