Thread: Waukegan: Drug bust nets 10 yr sentence (deportation?)

Short and sweet, but we never used to see these articles in our paper. Now, it's like one a week. I still never understand why the judges say 'could' be deported. Even if there is amnesty -won't people be deported because of such a crime???

You don't get what you pay for -the brick was short of a full kilo....;


Drug bust nets 10-year sentence

December 29, 2007
NEWS-SUN STAFF REPORT

Under a negotiated plea, a 32-year-old Mexican man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday in Lake County Circuit Court on drug charges.

Alegandro Bolla-Gonzales who lived in Zion previously until his arrest Sept. 12, 2006, was warned by Judge Fred Foreman that he could face deportation after serving his sentence because he is not a U.S. citizen.

Represented by attorney John Stergiou and speaking through an attorney, he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to deliver.

Bollas-Gonzalez was arrested after he tried to sell to an undercover agent one kilogram of cocaine for $20,000 at a Burger King parking lot off Green Bay Road near Grand Avenue, according to Assistant State's Attorney Scott Hoffert.

An argument resulted as he and the agent challenged each other as to who should produce the drug or the money first, said Hoffert. A search of his car yielded 987 grams of cocaine in the shape of "a white brick."

Bollas-Gonzalez did not have a previous criminal record other than some traffic violations, Hoffert said.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/news ... S1.article

If an illegal or even a legal resident in many cases will get a deportation hold put on them while in jail. In most cases they involve felonies only and once they are convicted they serve time and then they get deported. The bad news is that many come back. The judge in this case said there is possible deportation becuase he cannot say anything else unless the person is convicted of the crime. If not then the person is turned over to ICE as immigration is a separate entity.