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By City News Service Photo: Getty Images SANTA ANA (CNS) - A 24-year-old man was convicted today for his role in the fatal shooting of a drug dealer in Placentia, an attack allegedly ordered by the head of the Orange County branch of the Mexican Mafia. Augustine Velazquez was convicted of murder, conspiracy, burglary and attempted robbery in the Jan. 19, 2017, killing of 35-year-old Robert Rios. Jurors, who deliberated for about a day, also found true special circumstances allegations of murder during a robbery. Velazquez, who is scheduled to be sentenced July 23, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. ....
By City News Service May 15, 2021 SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County prosecutors have been dealt a legal setback in their murder case against at least one of five defendants, including reputed Orange County Mexican Mafia chief Johnny Martinez, due to fallout from the Orange County sheriff s evidence booking scandal. Unlike his co-defendants, Augustine Velazquez, 24, has pushed for a trial and does not want to waive any more time in the case so he will go on trial first. His trial is scheduled to begin next week. On Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick Donahue granted a motion to dismiss multiple gang-related charges and sentencing enhancements in the case when defense attorney Rob Harley argued prosecutors evidence from a gang expert during the preliminary hearing was tainted because the sheriff s deputy was dishonest on the stand. ....
Vaccine scandals add to political tensions in Latin America Feb 23, 2021 rome bureau chief Health care workers wait to receive a dose of Sinopharm s COVID-19 vaccine in Lima, Peru, Feb. 9, 2021. Peru s bishops are indignant that vaccines are being given to VIPs instead of essential workers; one of those who received the vaccine was the papal nuncio. (Credit: CNS photo/Sebastian Castaneda, Reuters.) As violence, corruption and vaccine scandals continue to shake Latin America, Catholic bishops are calling for people to avoid being “tempted by hatred,” to urge peace and to avoid the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic. ROME – As violence, corruption and vaccine scandals continue to shake Latin America, Catholic bishops are calling for people to avoid being “tempted by hatred,” to urge peace and to avoid the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic. ....