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MyspaceFor a crime they committed nearly three years ago, three Eastside gang members will be spending a combined 56 years and eight months in state prison.
The three — Omar Ramos, Erick Roman, and Ricardo Nava — all pleaded guilty to attempted murder with a gang enhancement in accordance with their plea deal struck with the District Attorney’s Office, and were sentenced in Santa Barbara Superior Court on January 25.
Ramos was sentenced to 20 years, both for the aforementioned charges and for a gang strike. Roman received a total of 17 years and 8 months in prison. Nava’s sentencing will have him in prison for the next 19 years. According to prosecutor Hans Almgren, the three attacked a rival Westside gang member on June 28, 2007 on the 600 block of Del Monte Avenue. The attackers used knives and a baseball bat to attack the rival gang member.
Nava is also facing a murder charge in the July 2007 stabbing death of Lorenzo Carachure on the Westside. His trial in that case is expected in April. Ramos was originally named in a federal indictment which included several Eastside gang members, resulting in dozens of arrests in 2008’s Operation Gator Roll.
In front of their family members Monday, Ramos, Roman, and Nava were given some heavy-handed advice from Judge Frank Ochoa. Calling them young men, Judge Frank Ochoa said, “It’s up to you to decide how to make your life different once you’re back on the street.”
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Fry in hell you little scum. Have a good time in jail with your new homey, Butch.
bronzebunzstud (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 9:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow, such hatred bronze... I would like to know what happened to the bright-eyed little kindergartners these young men presumably once were and how it was they came to become hardened gang members out to kill. How do we stop this? Prevention has to start at a very young age. This outcome is a tragedy for everyone involved.
jellyfish805 (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 10:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sweet justice...
InTheKnow (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 10:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
When are these people eligible for parole?
Moonrunner (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 11:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Get this guys, but lets free all the sexual predators and drunk driving murderers out on bail and probation.
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 12:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Wow, such hatred bronze... I would like to know what happened to the bright-eyed little kindergartners these young men presumably once were and how it was they came to become hardened gang members out to kill. How do we stop this?"
As long as America perceives certain segments of our society as being less capable of achievement, and as long as these people are seen as being cogs in the cheap labor scam, their children will grow up with little self esteem. Add to this the overcrowding that is getting worse in the areas where these people live.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 3:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Cheap labor is not so cheap after all.
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
January 26, 2010 at 9:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Cheap labor is not so cheap after all."
Amen to that.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 4:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Note the Judge's " heavy handed advice" regarding their movements when they get out of jail and read their body language. Clearly they plan to continue their activities wherever they are.
samuel (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 7:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
After 18 years in the joint in a level 4 facility, what do you expect? They will be learning from the worst of worst not some college professor.
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 8:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
$20,000.00 X 56 = $1,120,000.00 for Incarceration
Paul Wellman is a machine! Great Photography time in time out.
easternpacific (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 10:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bill---These are just punks who don't want to work like everyone else. They want the "Thug-life" they see on TV. Well, now they got it!
edukder (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 12:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So it is MTV's fault?
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 1:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Bill---These are just punks who don't want to work like everyone else. They want the "Thug-life" they see on TV. Well, now they got it!"
Sadly, if I go into the underlying causes of the perpetual chain of gang violence my comments get deleted so I am not allowed to address what is really going on. If anyone wants to know how I really feel, write me directly.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
January 27, 2010 at 3:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
its ese not esay. If you try to sound mexican , spell it right.
805RunningCrew (anonymous profile)
May 4, 2010 at 6:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)