4X Deported Alien Gets Life Without Parole for Killing 5 Honduran Migrants in East Texas
Bob Price, Breitbart, January 29, 2025
A court in East Texas sentenced a four-time deported illegal alien to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he pleaded guilty to the murders of five Honduran migrants near Cleveland, Texas, in April 2023. The Mexican national pleaded guilty to Capital Murder in exchange for the sentence.
San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said the plea resolves all of the cases that came out of an incident on the night of April 28, 2023, when Francisco Torres Oropeza murdered five of his neighbors. Dillon said the plea will ensure that Oropeza will remain in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice until his death.
Following the murders, Oropeza led police on a five-day manhunt that involved hundreds of state, local, and federal law enforcement officers.
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The victims of the alleged murders were previously identified by the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office as:
- Julisa Molina Rivera, age 31
- Sonia Argentina Guzman, age 25
- Diana Velazquez Alvarado, age 21
- Jose Jonathan Casarez, age 18
- Daniel Enrique Laso, age 9
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told Breitbart News in 2023 that Oropeza had been removed from the United States on four occasions.
An immigration judge first ordered Francisco Oropeza Perez-Torres, 38, to be removed from the United States on March 19, 2009. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers deported the migrant to Mexico later that month.
After this, Oropeza illegally re-entered the U.S. and was removed once again in September 2009. He was removed two more times in January 2012 and July 2016.
In January 2012, a Texas court in Montgomery County (which neighbors San Jacinto County, where the alleged murders took place) convicted the Mexican national of driving while intoxicated. The court sentenced him to an unreported period of incarceration.
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