Oct 21 2009
Community Rallies to Free Alex Sanchez
On Monday, LA-based gang intervention activist Alex Sanchez was denied bail for a second time. The “Homies Unidos” co-founder and Executive Director has been held in custody since late June on federal racketeering charges. Despite community supporters gathering more than $2.5 million dollars in sureties and property deeds to secure his release, US Ninth Circuit Court Judge Manuel L. Real deemed Sanchez a “flight risk,” in his decision to deny bail. The widespread show of support, which has included more than 120 letters written on Sanchez’s behalf, was characterized on Monday by the judge as a possible means by which the activist could flee the country. In the indictment against him, Sanchez, who had once been a member of the Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha street gang, stands accused of being a “shot caller,” in the gang, leading a double-life while receiving public funds for his “Homies Unidos” organization. He is specifically named in a 2006 conspiracy involving the murder of a member of the MS-13 gang in El Salvador. Father Gregory Boyle, as a gang expert and Executive Director of “Homeboy Industries,” offered a formal statement after having reviewed wiretapped phone conversations held as evidence against Sanchez. Boyle asserts that after retranslating the tapes, a crucial piece of evidence was missed when a participant in the call noted Sanchez as no longer part of the gang. Judge Real dismissed the statement.
GUEST: Oscar Sanchez, Alex’s brother.
For more information, visit www.wearealex.org.
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