Two teenagers who were acting as hired guns for the Sinaloa Cartel when they committed a pair of shootings in Chula Vista that left two men wounded and one of their accomplices dead have both received long prison sentences.<\/p>\n
Andrew “Shooter” Nunez, 16, and Johncarlo \u201cDumper\u201d Quintero, 17, pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the March 2024 attacks that occurred outside a Chili’s restaurant and a Chula Vista apartment. On Friday, the pair were each sentenced by U.S. District Judge Todd W. Robinson to 25 years for their roles in the crime spree on March 26-27, 2024.<\/p>\n
The boys, who were both 15 years old at the time, pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of two men on behalf of a Mexican Mafia-affiliated gang based out of Los Angeles County, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which said on Friday that the teens expected to be paid about $50,000 each for committing the murder.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalifornia Senate Bill 1391 made state prosecutions of 14- and 15-year-olds a practical impossibility regardless of the seriousness of the crime. Then, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Mexican Mafia-affiliated Westside Wilmas recruited accordingly,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon in a statement released Friday. \u201cNo. No to the Sinaloa Cartel recruiting juveniles. No to the Mexican Mafia directing gangland hits in San Diego. No to a lack of consequences for juveniles who would do their bidding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both victims were shot, but survived.<\/p>\n
Nunez and Quintero also pleaded guilty to murder for the shooting death of their accomplice, 28-year-old Ricardo Sanchez. Sanchez was fatally shot by one of the attempted murder targets in self-defense and under the provocative act murder doctrine, the defendants were held accountable for his killing.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Nunez and Quintero were specifically recruited because of their age, as they would not be prosecuted by the state as adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers who were acting as hired guns for the Sinaloa Cartel when they committed a pair of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,18219,9974,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855,36628],"class_list":["post-221950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-cartel","tag-chula-vista","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos","tag-sinaloa-cartel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}