A young bay area woman shot and killed at random. Tonight, we know the feds wanted to deport the suspect months ago, but San Francisco refused to hand him over. Betty yu is at the jail tonight. Betty . Reporter ken and liz, the man accused of killing kate stiley worked out of the jail behind me near the hall of justice. By city law, he was free to go after his drug charges were dropped. Francisco sanchez was put in jail for drugs. Five deportations to mexico. Seven felony convictions. He served his time, but federal immigration officials abouted him back in their custody. The city didnt notify them if think got out of jail. I say that courts ruled there is no legal basis to hold him. Reporter that is because San Francisco is a sanctuary city. It means the city doesnt help ice with immigration investigations or arrests unless required by law or warrant. There is no city in america that has been more creative and vigorous about trying to avoid helping United States reporter supervisor da
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. A young bay area woman shot and killed at random. Tonight, we know the feds wanted to deport the suspect months ago, but San Francisco refused to hand him over. Betty yu is at the jail tonight. Betty . Reporter ken and liz, the man accused of killing kate stiley worked out of the jail behind me near the hall of justice. By city law, he was free to go after his drug charges were dropped. Francisco sanchez was put in jail for drugs. Five deportations to mexico. Seven felony convictions. He served his time, but federal immigration officials abouted him back in their custody. The city didnt notify them if think got out of jail. I say that courts ruled there is no legal basis to hold him. Reporter that is because San Francisco is a sanctuary city. It means the city doesnt help ice with immigration investigations or arrests unless required by law or warrant. There is no city in america that has been more creative and vigorous about try
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. A young woman murdered on the pier and tonight we learn San Francisco sheriffs deputies have been making secret phone calls for years to help the feds get Illegal Immigrants like her suspected killer off other streets. Good evening. Im allen martin. Im elizabeth cook. The San Francisco sheriff let the suspected killer out of jail a few months ago without telling the feds even though immigration officials wanted to arrest him. Andria borba with how the sheriff laid down the law with his deputies recently. Reporter San Francisco Law Enforcement has been quietly helping the feds telling them when the city was about to release an illegal immigrant. We spoke with several former officers off camera who say it happens all the time because they resented the sanctuary city policy and then the sheriff got wind of it. Kpix5 obtained the memo the sheriff sent to his deputies in march spelling out he and only he can turn over Illegal Immigrants
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. A young woman murdered on the pier and tonight we learn San Francisco sheriffs deputies have been making secret phone calls for years to help the feds get Illegal Immigrants like her suspected killer off other streets. Good evening. Im allen martin. Im elizabeth cook. The San Francisco sheriff let the suspected killer out of jail a few months ago without telling the feds even though immigration officials wanted to arrest him. Andria borba with how the sheriff laid down the law with his deputies recently. Reporter San Francisco Law Enforcement has been quietly helping the feds telling them when the city was about to release an illegal immigrant. We spoke with several former officers off camera who say it happens all the time because they resented the sanctuary city policy and then the sheriff got wind of it. Kpix5 obtained the memo the sheriff sent to his deputies in march spelling out he and only he can turn over Illegal Immigrants
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. As the suspect in the pier murder faces a judge tonight, bomb shell new information about who owned the gun used to kill this young bay area woman. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Im allen martin. Ken bastida has the night off. Andria borba is outside the jail with new information fortous night. Andria . Reporter ever since kate steinle was murdered a week ago, we learned a lot of information about illegal immigration and the sanctuary policy in San Francisco. It looks like the chain of events leading to her death includes the citys most common street crime. There are a lot of questions being raised by our investigation. Where did the gun come from . Reporter tonight, we know. Sources confirmed that the gun used to kill kate steinle on pier 14 belonged to a federal agent. We can confirm that mr. Sanchez did not know kate steinle and he had no reason to want her to be harmed in any way. Reporter the 40 caliber handgun was recover