- Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:16 pm
#60647
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi blamed the Feds for dropping off Sanchez to his jail when in fact a document has been found that the sheriff specifically asked that the Feds transport Sanchez from a federal prison in Southern California to stand trial in SF on a 20-year-old marijuana possession charge. The Feds delivered Sanchez as requested with the understand that once Sanchez served his time in SF he would be released back to the Feds. The Sheriff then dropped the 20 year old marijuana charges and released Sanchez on the streets where he murdered the woman.
The Sheriff should be in jail!
[quote][SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) --
A new document obtained by ABC7 News indicates San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi asked for suspected Pier 14 shooter Francisco Sanchez to be transported from Southern California to San Francisco.
Sanchez was being held in San Bernardino County in March and was brought to the Bay Area at the request of the sheriff.
Mirkarimi has blamed the feds for returning Pier 14 murder suspect Francisco Sanchez to San Francisco in March on a minor 20-year-old marijuana possession charge, but the document obtained by ABC7 News indicates it was the sheriff's office that made the request.
The letter asks the federal prison in Southern California where Sanchez had served a 46-month sentence to notify the sheriff's department when "the subject is ready for our pick up." But Mirkarimi says his department was only responding to a request.
"All the contact was initialized by the feds. Once that happens, it's our obligation to arrange transportation," Mirkarimi said.
Sanchez was held for three weeks in San Francisco and then released. He was then arrested July 1 in the shooting death of Kate Steinle.
Mayor Ed Lee broke his silence Wednesday, blaming the sheriff for not warning the feds about Sanchez' release. He says such a call would not have violated the city's sanctuary law designed to protect undocumented immigrants.
"Nothing in that law prevents or prohibits communication, notification with our federal and state law enforcement officials," said Lee. "Do I need to educate somebody about how to pick up a phone?"
In response, Mirkarimi said, "Well then, the mayor would be subverting, sabotaging his own law, the Due Process for All law that was passed by the Board of Supervisors and that he signed into effect in 2013. It's very clear that it stipulates to law enforcement, in this case the sheriff's department, that a notification detainer request should not be returned unless ICE also provides a court order or a warrant."
The mayor is calling for a review.
Earlier Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management admitted the gun used to kill Kate Steinle one week ago today was stolen from one of its agents. The agency says someone broke into a ranger's car back on June 27 in downtown San Francisco.
In a jailhouse interview with ABC7 News, the suspect Francisco Sanchez, who has been deported five times, claimed he found the gun under a bench on the pier and it went off accidentally.
/quote]
http://abc7news.com/news/document-shows ... ct/836683/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Sheriff should be in jail!
[quote][SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) --
A new document obtained by ABC7 News indicates San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi asked for suspected Pier 14 shooter Francisco Sanchez to be transported from Southern California to San Francisco.
Sanchez was being held in San Bernardino County in March and was brought to the Bay Area at the request of the sheriff.
Mirkarimi has blamed the feds for returning Pier 14 murder suspect Francisco Sanchez to San Francisco in March on a minor 20-year-old marijuana possession charge, but the document obtained by ABC7 News indicates it was the sheriff's office that made the request.
The letter asks the federal prison in Southern California where Sanchez had served a 46-month sentence to notify the sheriff's department when "the subject is ready for our pick up." But Mirkarimi says his department was only responding to a request.
"All the contact was initialized by the feds. Once that happens, it's our obligation to arrange transportation," Mirkarimi said.
Sanchez was held for three weeks in San Francisco and then released. He was then arrested July 1 in the shooting death of Kate Steinle.
Mayor Ed Lee broke his silence Wednesday, blaming the sheriff for not warning the feds about Sanchez' release. He says such a call would not have violated the city's sanctuary law designed to protect undocumented immigrants.
"Nothing in that law prevents or prohibits communication, notification with our federal and state law enforcement officials," said Lee. "Do I need to educate somebody about how to pick up a phone?"
In response, Mirkarimi said, "Well then, the mayor would be subverting, sabotaging his own law, the Due Process for All law that was passed by the Board of Supervisors and that he signed into effect in 2013. It's very clear that it stipulates to law enforcement, in this case the sheriff's department, that a notification detainer request should not be returned unless ICE also provides a court order or a warrant."
The mayor is calling for a review.
Earlier Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management admitted the gun used to kill Kate Steinle one week ago today was stolen from one of its agents. The agency says someone broke into a ranger's car back on June 27 in downtown San Francisco.
In a jailhouse interview with ABC7 News, the suspect Francisco Sanchez, who has been deported five times, claimed he found the gun under a bench on the pier and it went off accidentally.
/quote]
http://abc7news.com/news/document-shows ... ct/836683/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- By johnforbes
- By brandon