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A 60-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of lewd acts with a child stemming from a 2019 investigation. An investigation into Gonzalo Gutierrez Cuevas, of Goleta, began in January of 2019. Gutierrez Cuevas fled the country after learning of the accusations.
Deputies received a report of Gutierrez Cuevas in 2019 indicating he had engaged in lewd acts with children in an apartment complex of the 5800 block of Nectarine Avenue. Gutierrez Cuevas was the Apartment Maintenance Technician for the apartments.
The Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office, US Marshals and Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office worked hand-in-hand to find, detain and extradite Gutierrez Cuevas. On January 25, 2024, Gutierrez Cuevas was surrendered by Mexico and landed in the Unites States late Thursday evening. Gutierrez Cuevas faces eight counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor that were filed previously by the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office.
Anyone with additional information or knowledge of other crimes, is encouraged to come forward with information and contact Detective Sosa at 805-681-4150.
What a surprise! Yet another example of the failed policies of the Biden administration and the feckless handling of the border. At 8,000 got aways DAILY, many of which are military aged males, these type of crimes are certain to happen.
What a surprise! Another uneducated comment from someone who only parrots the current right wing talking points. It’s best to think for yourself and look at the facts. Below are notes from historian Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American”:
GOP overturned Roe v. Wade but turns out, majority of Americans (69%) want Roe reinstated, so they need an election issue. Here comes immigration. They are trying to turn the migration influx at the southern border into an issue that can win for them in November. In December 2023, extremist House Republicans refused to pass a supplementary funding bill that is crucial to Ukraine’s effort to resist Russia’s 2022 invasion, insisting that the “border crisis” must be attended to first, although they refused to participate in the negotiations that Biden and senators promptly began.
Then, after news hit that the negotiators were close to a deal, House speaker Mike Johnson and Fox News’ Laura Ingraham told the tv audience that they had both spoken to Trump and he opposed a deal. Journalists reported that Trump was pressuring Republican lawmakers to reject any deal because he wants to run on the issue of immigration and “doesn’t want Biden to have a victory.”
Senator Mitt Romney said that “the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling.” Now, after insisting the border issue must be addressed and riling up their base to believe it is the biggest crisis the U.S. faces, MAGA Republicans are in the position of having to refuse to address the problem. So they are escalating their rhetoric, claiming that the bipartisan deal to address the border is not good enough.
Trump’s attempts to destroy the bipartisan border deal, in which Democrats appear to have been willing to give away more than the Republicans out of desperate determination to fund Ukraine, are being called out for cynical politics. Tons of news stories condemning the Republicans for caving to the demands of a man who is, at least for now, a private citizen and who is putting his own election over the interests of the American people as he tries to keep the issue of immigration alive to exploit in the 2024 campaign.
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told his colleagues: “I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy…. It is immoral for me to think you looked the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Trump to win.”
But while Trump is apparently telling Republicans he will “fix” the border if he gets back into the White House, Greg Sargent noted yesterday in The New Republic that when Trump was in office, “[h]e too released a lot of migrants into the interior, and he couldn’t pass his immigration agenda even with unified GOP control.” And, of course, he never got Mexico to pay for his wall, as he repeatedly claimed he would, while President Joe Biden, in contrast, got Mexico to invest $1.5 billion in “smart” border technology and to beef up its own border security.
The White House has refused to abandon negotiations even as Trump trashed them. In a statement today, Biden said that negotiators have been “[w]orking around the clock, through the holidays, and over weekends,” to craft a bipartisan deal on the border, and he called out Republicans who are now trying to scuttle the bill.
“What’s been negotiated would—if passed into law—be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” he said. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.
“Further, Congress needs to finally provide the funding I requested in October to secure the border. This includes an additional 1,300 border patrol agents, 375 immigration judges, 1,600 asylum officers, and over 100 cutting-edge inspection machines to help detect and stop fentanyl at our southwest border. Securing the border through these negotiations is a win for America. For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it. If you’re serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it.”
Biden seems to be signaling that if the Republicans kill this measure, they will own the border issue, but he is not the only one making that argument. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, which slants toward the right, wrote: “[G]iving up on a border security bill would be a self-inflicted GOP wound. President Biden would claim, with cause, that Republicans want border chaos as an election issue rather than solving the problem. Voter anger may over time move from Mr. Biden to the GOP, and the public will have a point. Cynical is the only word that fits Republicans panning a border deal whose details aren’t even known.”
I fully agree with SBTejano. You are too cowardly to even put a screen name.
And szq is the legal name your parent’s gave you?
You can believe whatever you want “szq” but that doesn’t change facts.
szq, what’s wrong with the bi-partisan immigration bill discussed above? Isn’t it a step in the right direction? And anyway, did you notice that the suspect in the article committed his crimes in 2019? Trump was in office then. But the suspect was caught just recently, during the Biden administration.
A sad commentary we should have been spared. Amazing how unpariotic and immoral some are.
Amazing how ignorant and hate-filled some are. Pathetic, honestly.
Chalf, what’s truly sad is one political party has been hijacked by con-men who spew nothing but lies and tell you it’s a fact and… get this… people like you believe it. When facts are somehow only true when it benefits you, how can you logically reason anything? Must be hard and scary. Best of luck to you.
Yes indeed, right wingers are immoral traitors.
Anon, triggered? Try living in south Texas, Eagle Pass where my family is from. You have no idea on what a hellscape it has become. Can you imagine that crisis ever coming to our local SB bubble?
Ah yes, old SBRACIST and CHALF in the flesh. So do tell, how do you two geniuses know he was an illegal immigrant? I can commit a crime, flee to Mexico and be extradited just as well and I’m a US citizen.
You’re hate-filled lives must truly be taxing on you. Well, that’s assuming you have an ounce of reason. It must be exhausting to be constantly filled with hate, bigotry, fear and ignorance.
I’d say do better, but it’s quite clear you can’t. I pity your families and “friends” LOL
Lock that monster up