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The begetter of a antheral wanted successful transportation with the slaying of a 22-year-old Las Vegas pistillate was sentenced Friday to 2 years successful situation for helping fell her body.
Lesly Palacio’s household pleaded for a harsher sentence, but the punishment handed down by Judge Tierra Jones was the maximum allowed nether the law.
Jose Rangel, 46, pleaded blameworthy successful June to destroying grounds and accessory to perpetrate murder, some gross misdemeanors.
Sitting with astir 2 twelve radical successful a courtroom gallery, her younger sister, Nayelli Palacio, expressed vexation with the punishment for Jose Rangel’s charges.
“It hurts that idiosyncratic tin bash this to my sister and lone get 2 years,” she said. “If you knew Lesly, you would cognize she didn’t merit this. She didn’t merit to person her beingness taken from her.”
Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani said the Rangels had known Palacio for 14 years, and the begetter was wrong the location erstwhile she was killed.
Giordani called connected lawmakers to heighten the imaginable punishment for specified crimes.
“The Nevada Legislature needs to bash thing astir this, due to the fact that dumping a young girls assemblage and treating her similar a portion of trash should not beryllium treated arsenic a misdemeanor,” Giordani said. “And assisting a murderer aft helium commits specified an egregious transgression should not beryllium treated arsenic a misdemeanor.”
Rangel admitted to helping his son, Erick Rangel-Ibarra, 25, resistance Palacio’s assemblage retired of their Las Vegas location and fly to Mexico, according to tribunal records.
‘I’m precise regretful’
Rangel apologized to Palacio’s household and asked for forgiveness.
“I’m precise regretful,” helium said. “I americium very, precise sorry. May she remainder successful peace. I recognize their pain, and it hurts me, it hurts my heart, knowing that I failed arsenic a father, that 2 beauteous families were destroyed. I admit my mistake. I consciousness precise ashamed that this incidental took place, and that I arsenic a begetter acted the mode I did and did not spell consecutive to the authorities erstwhile this happened. My emotion arsenic a begetter won maine over. I was truthful connected the borderline I didn’t cognize what to do. That betrayed me. I did not marque the close decision.”
His lad remains a fugitive.
Prosecutors person said surveillance video showed the 2 men placing Palacio’s assemblage into a pickup truck connected Aug. 29, earlier Rangel-Ibarra drove off.
The justice besides addressed Palacio’s family, and Jose Rangel directly, saying helium deserved “nothing less” than the maximum punishment.
“I cognize from wherever the household is sitting, suffering a nonaccomplishment that you’ve suffered, 2 years doesn’t look similar a capable punishment for losing your girl and losing your sister,” Jones said. “But from wherever the tribunal is sitting, my hands are tied. I person to enforce a punishment that is allowable nether the law, arsenic it stands today. That is the lone enactment that I have. And I recognize that you guys consciousness similar the strategy has failed you. And I recognize that thing that happens present contiguous is going to regenerate what you lost.”
Palacio’s assemblage was recovered successful Moapa Valley adjacent Valley of Fire State Park successful September, according to tribunal records.
She was past seen by household erstwhile she went to get drinks with Rangel-Ibarra connected the time she was killed. Her younger sister, Nayelli Palacio, expressed vexation with the punishment for Jose Rangel’s charges.
At Friday’s hearing, Aracely Palacio wept arsenic she said her girl was studying to beryllium a caregiver and 5 months from graduating. Her decease “left a sadness and emptiness,” the parent said.
‘It’s not fair’
“Lesly was a bully girl, a bully daughter, and she was a bully sister,” she said. “She was my close arm, ever helping maine with everything. My beingness has not been the same. … It is not just that Jose lone has to bash 2 years. It is not fair.”
After the slaying, authorities said, the 2 men fled to Mexico. Rangel aboriginal returned and surrendered to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents astatine a borderline crossing astatine San Diego connected Jan. 19, telling authorities that helium had been with his lad but they had divided up.
Within 2 weeks of Palacio’s disappearance, constabulary identified Rangel-Ibarra arsenic a fishy successful her killing.
Though her origin and mode of decease had not been determined, Rangel-Ibarra faces a execution charge.
Anyone with accusation regarding his whereabouts whitethorn interaction Las Vegas constabulary astatine 702-828-3521 or, to stay anonymous, Crime Stoppers astatine 702-385-5555.
Contact David Ferrara astatine dferrara@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-380-1039. Follow @randompoker connected Twitter.
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