But crime after crime after crime, it never got to be enough to take seriously. So now an officer is dead. This was not predictable?The gang member accused of killing a Whittier police officer Monday has cycled in and out of jail for repeatedly violating the terms of his release, records show.
Wait! Isn't more lenient treatment only for the non-violent? Oh -- what? -- you actually believed that???Sheriff's Homicide Capt. Steve Katz on Tuesday identified the suspect as Michael C. Mejia, 26, a career criminal with a history of drugs and violence. Mejia has a "history of control problems," Katz said.
Mejia is suspected of killing Whittier police Officer Keith Boyer and wounding another officer in a shootout following a crash involving a stolen vehicle.
Court records show that Mejia was sentenced in 2010 to four years in state prison for robbery and was convicted in July 2014 of grand theft auto and attempting to steal a vehicle. He was given another two-year sentence.
Mejia, who was shot by officers in the deadly gunfight that claimed Boyer's life and left Officer Patrick Hazell wounded, has been arrested and jailed for short stints several times since July. State officials said he was on probation and under supervision of the L.A. County Probation Department.
In July, he violated terms of his release and got 10 days in jail. He was arrested again in September after authorities moved to revoke his community supervision.
Congratulations! Every sensate person reading this will now understand that it's not about creating second chances. It's about creating however many chances it takes for the criminal to do crippling or lethal damage.He was arrested in January for again violating the terms of his release and sentenced to a combined 40 days in jail. But he was out again after 10 days, records show. Then, Feb. 2 he was arrested by East L.A. sheriff's deputies for violating his release terms and "flash incarcerated."
Mejia was sentenced to 10 days and released Feb. 11. On Monday, before his run-in with Whittier police, he allegedly went on a deadly rampage that began at an East L.A. home, where authorities suspect Mejia in the fatal shooting of a man believed to be his his 46-year-old cousin, Ray Torres. Mejia then allegedly stole his car.
Whittier Police Chief Jeff Piper said Mejia is an example of how statewide efforts to reduce incarceration of certain criminals can have tragic consequences.
"We need to wake up. Enough is enough," Piper said at an emotional news conference Monday, the day Boyer was killed. "This is a senseless, senseless tragedy that did not need to be."
And we put them back because we're unrealistic and dishonest about the quantity and nature of their repeat crimes.Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell pointed to three measures enacted in the last seven years -- Propositions 47 and 57 and Assembly Bill 109 -- that he said have led to the release of too many criminals without creating a proper safety net of mental health, drug rehabilitation and other services.
"We're putting people back on the street that aren't ready to be back on the street," McDonnell said.
It was a certainty that Wendell Callahan would have company. The only real question is how much company he already has that the press is keeping under wraps.
Early release is a side effect of criminal invasion and alien mob rule, a total judicial denial of CA sovereignty and right to be free from invasion and a Republican form of govt.
CA is a Mexican mafia dictatorship, they have cartels for water, power, cigarettes, gambling, Marijuana, medical care and prostitution all supporting a corrupt mafia state government.
Crime, voter fraud and invasion have been legalized, indictments parked, investigations killed, prosecutors retired, criminals released, there is no pretext of law enforcement anymore.
I was wondering if, in future comments, you could give your name or a handle. This is now fairly standard practice here, and I hope you'll follow it.