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Serious Bad Guys Taken Down In Gilbert, AZ
Two of four men accused in a Tuesday home invasion and high-speed chase with police in Gilbert were booked on charges of first-degree murder in connection with the death of one of their alleged partners.Felony murder? I love felony murder cases! Even though Anthony Gonzalez, 21, was crushed by a Jeep Cherokee that rolled when a Gilbert police officer used a driving maneuver to stop the vehicle, his brother, Robert Gonzalez, 20, and Dominicio Soldano, 22, are being held responsible for his death under Arizona's felony murder rule. Fat Tony was killed in the commission of a murder that Bob the Pig and Greasy Thumb Soldano were in the process of committing. Doesn't matter that he was in the process of committing the same felony. The rule allows authorities to charge accomplices in a crime in which someone was killed to be charged with first-degree murder. Should be used a lot more often, too. I'm in favor of a Felony Battery law, too. And maybe Felony Abortion... Rafeal Chacon, 22, was booked on a charge of attempted first-degree murder and several other felonies, and Isidro Pineda, 21, was booked on a charge of misconduct involving weapons. Pineda was driving a separate car and was arrested without incident, according to court documents. All five men grew up in Phoenix. Some of them have gang ties and all but Pineda have spent time in prison, according to court records. Y'kinda suspect that they all have gang ties, don'tcha? Gilbert police allege in court documents that four masked men robbed a family and beat the father in a house at 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 3600 block of East Stampede Drive. The men identified themselves as police as they tried to bust in the front door and smashed an arcadia door. "Hey! You ain't cops! Cops ain't got tatz on their necks!" The 25-year-old wife was able to get to a neighbor's house and call police, but her 9-year-old and 3-year-old children were still inside. The men pointed a gun at the mother as they sped away. "Betcha scared her, Fat Tony!" Sgt. Mark Marino, Gilbert police spokesman, said the residents and the men did not have any "direct" relationship with each other, but investigators are still trying to figure out the motive. "Honey? There's a man at the door with a tatoo on his neck. He says he's a policeman. You haven't been driving after you've had too many again, have you?" When the smoke cleared after the Jeep Cherokee rolled at 140th Street and Williams Field Road, police found among the debris on the road a duffle bag with a loaded semiautomatic handgun, a magazine of ammunition for a rifle, duct tape and two badges. Bullets for a .357-caliber handgun were spilled on the ground near a ballistic vest. Farther down the road was another ballistic vest, a rifle and handguns. The suspects were also carrying items on them from the house, court records said. Guns, body armor and robberies have all been a part of the criminal pasts of each of the men, court records show. The Gonzalez brothers were each sentenced in March 2006 to 3.5 years in prison for a series of four robberies on June 12, 2005, in which they drove up to pedestrians and threatened them with a shotgun. When police arrested them, they also had a small machine gun. Phoenix police arrested Chacon in March 2006 while he was on probation for burglary when they saw him sitting inside his car wearing body armor. Police also found a handgun within reach of where he was sitting. While he was on parole for that, Chacon was involved in a brawl on Dec. 23, 2006, in downtown Phoenix and was found with two guns, but the case was dismissed before trial because a key witness couldn't be found, according to court records. "Youse got nuttin' on me. All da witnesses is dead." Soldano served 18 months in prison for being a convicted felon with a handgun and Pineda was sentenced to probation in April for having a stolen handgun. Needed stinking badges? Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-05-21 |
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