LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A decide ordered the person accused of killing 22-year-old Lesly Palacio to serve jail time after he fled the nation whereas on probation; nevertheless, the sentence has little impact as he awaits his upcoming homicide trial.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra, 30, is the one suspect in Lesly Palacio’s August 2020 homicide. He’s accused of killing Palacio, 22, on Aug. 29, 2020. Police discovered her stays two weeks later close to the Valley of Fireplace.
The U.S. Marshals Service took Rangel-Ibarra into custody in Mexico in August following a yr of extradition proceedings. Authorities in Mexico arrested Rangel-Ibarra in July 2024, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. Through the years, detectives mentioned they believed Rangel-Ibarra was in Mexico inside 48 hours of Palacio’s loss of life, including he and his household have ties there.
In 2018, a Metro police officer stopped Rangel-Ibarra after observing him driving “at a high rate of speed” and “driving into oncoming traffic unsafely,” paperwork mentioned. The officer seen Rangel-Ibarra reaching “near the side panel door” and suspected he was concealing a firearm.
Within the paperwork he 8 Information Now Investigators obtained, Metro police described Rangel-Ibarra as an “illegal alien.” Rangel-Ibarra is an undocumented immigrant dropped at the U.S. illegally as a child and is classed as a “Dreamer” with Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) standing, sources mentioned.
Within the report, the officer famous Rangel-Ibarra didn’t have a allow to hold a hid weapon and is prohibited from possessing a firearm due to his citizenship standing.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was conscious of Rangel-Ibarra’s arrest in 2018, a spokesperson mentioned. Following his arrest, a decide launched him on bond.
Rangel-Ibarra later pleaded responsible to carrying a hid weapon and was ordered to serve three years’ probation, information mentioned. At sentencing in 2019, a decide ordered Rangel-Ibarra to “cooperate and comply with all orders and directives of ICE,” amongst practically two dozen different circumstances, together with abstaining from medicine and alcohol and conserving a gentle job. Paperwork linked to Palacio’s homicide point out she and Rangel-Ibarra have been consuming within the hours earlier than her loss of life.
In courtroom Thursday, Clark County District Courtroom Choose Christy Craig, who was reassigned the case after the unique decide’s retirement, dominated Rangel-Ibarra violated his probation. She ordered him to serve a yr in jail and gave him 90 days’ credit score.
Craig famous the sentence had little to no impact on Rangel-Ibarra’s life as a result of Rangel-Ibarra was already jailed with out bail pending the homicide case, although she didn’t point out the case immediately.
Rangel-Ibarra was not scheduled to seem in courtroom within the Palacio case once more till December.
