SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Space man who has been in custody on drug prices for greater than a 12 months has been sentenced to no extra jail time, months after pleading responsible to promoting medication to a confidential informant at a restaurant and laundromat within the Tenderloin.
Cristian Moran-Garcia was sentenced in late April to time served for promoting two ounces of methamphetamine to a confidential federal informant in June 2020. Moran-Garcia was been in jail awaiting decision in his case for greater than 14 months, court docket information present. He now faces deportation to Honduras.
Prosecutors requested U.S. District Decide Charles Breyer for a two-and-a-half-year jail time period, whereas Moran-Garcia’s lawyer requested for a sentence of time served.
Moran-Garcia pleaded responsible to promoting the methamphetamine to the informant on the TL Cafe and Laundromat, the identical enterprise the place one other man was convicted of promoting medication to a federal informant on a number of events, in line with court docket information. In that case, Jesus Baeza-Corona, 26, was given two years in federal jail for cumulatively promoting the informant roughly a half-pound of methamphetamine.
Moran-Garcia’s lawyer wrote in court docket information he “grew up seeing our bodies of homicide victims on the facet of the street as he traveled backwards and forwards to his grandfather’s home.” He fled Honduras for america, the lawyer wrote, after a gang gave him a alternative — be a part of with them or die — and Moran-Garcia refused.
In late 2020, immigration advocates and San Francisco’s district lawyer publicly accused authorities of utilizing federal drug legal guidelines to deport folks in circumstances that might be protected by the town’s sanctuary legislation in the event that they have been prosecuted in state court docket. Like Moran-Garcia, a disproportionate variety of these affected have been from Honduras, an investigation by this newspaper discovered.