Thread: Illegal immigrant sentenced to prison for burglary

Illegal immigrant sentenced to prison for burglary
By Jonathan Clark/Herald/Review

BISBEE - An illegal immigrant from Mexico who burglarized a home in the Chiricahua Mountains was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Friday.

Carlos Granillo-Leon, 22, of Agua Prieta, Sonora, told Cochise County Superior Court Judge Wallace Hoggatt that he broke into the Elfrida residence because he was hungry.

"I had been walking for four days," Granillo-Leon said. "I wanted to be able to eat so I could continue walking."

Defense attorney Mark Higgins asked Hoggatt to sentence Granillo-Leon to probation, but the judge opted for a prison term, citing the emotional trauma of the victims and the defendant's history of illegal border-crossings into the U.S.

According to court documents, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended Granillo-Leon on Jan. 27 and found an estimated $24 of food items in his backpack. They were able to trace the food to a home on Rucker Canyon Road thanks to a jar of homemade apple butter jam that had been marked by the person who made it.

When Cochise County sheriff's deputies checked the home, they found that a front window had been smashed with a rock.

Granillo-Leon was allegedly carrying two bundles of marijuana valued at $38,256 when he was arrested,.

But the drug charges against him were dropped as part of a plea deal with the state.


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Illegals stealing is nothing new in Miami. If landscape workers don't put their equipment away when not in use it is stolen. That is one way they get equipment for their business or they buy stolen equipment. They even steal tools from trucks in the parking lots at Lowes or Home Depot.

In grocery stores they open packages and eat while shopping and don't pay for it leaving the garbage on the shelves. You hear them speaking loudly in Spanish.

I thought they just come here to work.