When Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was routinely looking through snapshots of tattooed gang members, he saw something that caught his eye; a crime scene he was familiar with.
Anthony Garcia, a member of the Rivera13 gang, had a tattoo that resembled the scene of the liquor store killing of 23-year-old John Juarez in Pico Rivera on 23 January 2004, reports the Los Angeles Times. (Pico Rivera is about ten miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.)
There were numerous details the murder inked on the gang member. The paper reports that the tattoo included the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where Juarez was shot and killed, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way, and the street sign. Above everything read the title, Rivera Kills, a reference to the gang. A helicopter was also placed above the scene raining down bullets, a nod to Garcia's alias, Chopper.
When police discovered the evidence on Garcia's chest in 2008, they launched an investigation, which was followed by the arrest of Garcia.
This week, an undercover policeman placed in Garcia's cell got a confession from the suspect. That yielded a first-degree murder conviction in a killing investigators had initially given up hope on, the paper reports. "Think about it. He tattooed his confession on his chest. You have a degree of fate with this," Capt. Mike Parker told the Times.
Garcia faces 65 years to life when he is sentenced on 19 May in a Norwalk, California court.
27 April 2011
They don't call it felony stupid for nothing
Rico says some guys just can't catch a break (but some are just morons):
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