A Honduran drug dealer who went on the lam after shooting a gun at a street rival outside the Nancy Pelosi federal building was jailed for 60 months today.
Mauricio Hernandez opened fire on a man on August 12 2022 during an argument over an apparent drug deal outside the Seventh Street building. Arrested three months later, in the same vicinity, he was found with a loaded 9mm pistol, brass knuckles and fentanyl.
Hernandez then absconded from San Francisco Superior Court and was at large for six months until May 25 2023, when an eagle-eyed security guard at the watching live camera footage around the federal building spotted him and directed law enforcement to the corner of Seventh and Minna Streets where he was arrested without incident.
“I just want to say that I am sorry for what I did,” Hernandez told the court today through an interpreter. “I promise I will never come back here to the United States.”
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria sentenced Hernandez to 60 months’ imprisonment and warned him that he would almost certainly be deported at the end of his term.
Hernandez, 28, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of ‘possession with intent to distribute’ fentanyl and one count of being an alien in possession of a firearm.
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