Last month, federal officials allegedly deported one of the suspects in a massive 2022 jewelry heist in Southern California where thieves made off with $100 million in merchandise, in what prosecutors have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history.

Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores was sent to Ecuador on or about December 29, according to court documents obtained by The Los Angeles Times. He was believed to be linked to a raid on a Brinks truck that netted a fortune in stolen jewels, gold and watches.

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    5 months ago

    Did he get sent to that hell-hole Equadorian prison though? That’d be a massive self-own.

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        5 months ago

        Ecuador’s prisons are run by gangs. It’s a different kind of hell hole. Lots of murder in there (by prisoners. In El Salvador, it’s the guards that so the torture and murder)

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          5 months ago

          there are a lot of different places in Ecuador. He can leave for the countryside. Buy a plantation and build a nice little compound. You think Ecuadorean Government officials can’t be bought off?

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      5 months ago

      Do I go for the vault? No I take the chandelier, it’s priceless.

      • Dwight Schrute
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    5 months ago

    Lately I’ve heard a lot of officials say somethimg along the lines “if they come here and start causing problems, we’re gonna deport them.” but I never hear them say whether or not the problem-causing immigrants are facing justice. prior to being deported.

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    5 months ago

    “Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE paid for and aided his getaway.”

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    5 months ago

    ICE probably thinks it did its job because the people in it are incapable of thinking that people can have a comfortable life outside of the US, never mind a better one. So basically, they literally helped an immigrant steal $100 million from the US and make away with it because they had an accent and the wrong skin color - which opens up the possibility of just acting like a bad caricature of an immigrant to get free deportations after criminals carry out their crimes.

    You get fast-tracked from whatever consequences you would have had to just getting deported, and you didn’t even have to bribe Trump with 2 million dollars. Thanks, ICE!

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      5 months ago

      There’s no guarantee he got to keep the money. It could be in a safe buried in America and he has no easy way to get to it again.

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      5 months ago

      You think that would work? Volunteer for a self deportation even if you’re technically a US citizen? Asking for reasons unrelated to me

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      5 months ago

      Nah, ICE will deport innocent people only going forward. The criminals stay in the US!

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    5 months ago

    Justice? No, Just ICE. What did they think would happen when they started targeting courts and going after people just for getting charged with a crime? They already fucked over a bunch of people by pardoning convicted criminals who owed a ton of restitution.

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    5 months ago

    FIRST you Libtards COMPLAINED when we were Shooting Mothers in the Face and Kidnapping Children and NOW You’re complaining when we’re ACTUALLY Deporting Criminals! There’s NO PLEASING YOU!

    -Hakeem Jeffries!

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      5 months ago

      The criminal is no longer in the country, as they voluntarily self-deported. Extradition would no longer be possible.

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        5 months ago

        Do you know what extradition is? Of he’s in a country with extradition deals with the US, they US can ask to be arrested and send back to the US to be judge

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          5 months ago

          Ah, I see. I thought that they meant that the US should extradite the criminal.

          Though if he voluntarily self-deported to escape the trial, it seems rather unlikely that he would have chosen a country with extradition deals with the US. That seems like it would just be going in a circle.

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          5 months ago

          A suspect in a low income country. And they’re got the best part of $100 million to bribe any local cops with.

          That guy ain’t coming back.

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          5 months ago

          That’s not an issue as suspects are regularly extradited, you do not need to be convicted to be extradited.

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            5 months ago

            Sure, but don’t call someone a criminal who is literally not a criminal. They’re a suspect, not a criminal. Don’t tarnish their image.

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              5 months ago

              Innocent until proven guilty… but that requires rule of law and due process, two things DHS and ICE are against.