[FONT="]Juan Francisco López-Sánchez (or Francisco Sánchez; given name José Inez García Zárate),[SUP]
[17][/SUP] of
Guanajuato, Mexico, had been deported from the U.S. a total of five times, most recently in 2009.[SUP]
[18][/SUP] He was on
probation in Texas at the time of the shooting.[SUP]
[19][/SUP] He had seven felony convictions. When he was apprehended, Garcia Zarate was listed as 45 years old by police, but as 52 in jail records.[SUP]
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[FONT="]Garcia Zarate arrived in the U.S. sometime before 1991, the year he was convicted of his first drug charge in
Arizona. In 1993, he was convicted three times in
Washington state for felony
heroin possession and manufacturing
narcotics. Following another drug conviction and jail term, this time in
Oregon, the
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) deported Garcia Zarate in June 1994. However, Garcia Zarate returned to the U.S. within two years and was convicted again of heroin possession in Washington state. He was deported for the second time in 1997.[SUP]
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[FONT="]On February 2, 1998, Garcia Zarate was deported for the third time, after reentering the U.S. through Arizona.
United States Border Patrol caught him six days later at a border crossing, and a federal court sentenced Garcia Zarate to five years and three months in federal prison for unauthorized reentry. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), successor of the INS, deported Garcia Zarate in 2003 for his fourth deportation. However, he reentered the U.S. through the Texas border and got another federal prison sentence for reentry before being deported for the fifth time in June 2009.[SUP]
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[FONT="]Less than three months after his fifth deportation, Garcia Zarate was caught attempting to cross the border in
Eagle Pass, Texas. He pleaded guilty to felony reentry; upon sentencing, a federal court recommended Garcia Zarate be placed in "a federal medical facility as soon as possible".[SUP]
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[FONT="]On March 26, 2015, at the request of the
San Francisco Sheriff's Department (SFSD),
United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had turned Garcia Zarate over to San Francisco authorities for an outstanding drug warrant.[SUP]
[21][/SUP] San Francisco officials transported Garcia Zarate to San Francisco County Jail on March 26, 2015, to face a 20-year-old felony charge of selling and possessing marijuana after Garcia Zarate completed his latest prison term in
San Bernardino County for entering in the country without the proper documents.[SUP]
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a
detainer for Garcia Zarate requesting that he be kept in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up. However, as a
sanctuary city, its “Due Process for All” ordinance[SUP]
[23][/SUP] restricted cooperation with ICE to cases only where the immigrant had both
current violent felony
charges and
past violent felony
convictions; therefore, San Francisco disregarded the detainer and released him.[SUP]
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[25][/SUP] He was released from San Francisco County Jail on April 15, 2015 and had no outstanding warrants or judicial warrants, as confirmed by the San Francisco Sheriff's Department[/FONT]
