SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A person who authorities say was a part of a San Francisco road gang was sentenced final week for his function in a 2018 homicide, the Northern District of California’s Lawyer’s Workplace stated. Jose Aguilar, 34, of San Francisco obtained a sentence of twenty-two years.
Aguilar, who’s often known as “Slim,” and Jonathan Escobar of Richmond, who goes by “Depraved” and “Rico,” have been convicted of utilizing a gun to commit a homicide on Aug. 11, 2018. In line with an indictment filed in 2021, the homicide was premeditated and deliberate, making it a first-degree homicide.
Aguilar and Escobar have been each members of a gang known as the “nineteenth Avenue/sixteenth Avenue Sureños,” per the indictment. The gang was shaped when two gangs united, and it managed territory within the Mission District and Dolores Park, per the indictment.
To take care of management of their turf, the gang offered medication, dedicated robberies and carried out violent crimes, the NDCA stated. That features Aguilar and Escobar trying 5 different murders.
“Our communities have the proper to be protected and never succumb to mindless violence. I’m happy with the devoted brokers who’ve duly executed their duties in our collective pursuit of legislation, order and justice,” stated Particular Agent in Cost King in 2021, who as of that point oversaw Homeland Safety Investigations in Northern California.
Escobar was sentenced to 26 years in jail earlier this summer time.
