9/22/2022
RawNews1st – Convicted Felon Accused Of Shooting 5 People At Party In Nevada. The man accused of shooting five people at a Las Vegas birthday party was deported from the United States at least four times and previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping a man, court documents said.
Alberto Santacruz, 36, was taken into custody on the latest charges against him early Sunday morning. Police were not able to confirm his identity at the time because he gave them a fake identification card, an arrest report said.
Court documents indicate Santacruz was born in Mexico but was brought to the United States as an 8-year-old. Santacruz is not a U.S. citizen.
In 2006, Santacruz was part of a group that kidnapped a man from his home and threatened to kill him over the theft of $50,000 worth of methamphetamine, court records said.
The group then drove the men to a desert area near Logandale, saying they would kill them. One victim was able to escape, running to a gas station and yelling “They are going to kill me,” records said.
Police later took the suspects, including Santacruz, into custody. Police said Santacruz was responsible for tying up the victims and striking one man several times, documents said. All the suspects identified themselves to police as undocumented immigrants.
Police charged Santacruz with first-degree kidnapping with a deadly weapon. Santacruz later took a deal where he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
As part of the agreement, Santacruz was to serve between one and six years in the Nevada Department of Corrections. The agreement also included a stipulation that federal authorities could deport him.
Santacruz began his NDOC sentence in October 2007, records showed. He served 21 months, a lawyer said in a later federal case.
There are no federal documents from 2009 mentioning his deportation, but a document filed in 2017 indicates Santacruz was deported in October 2009.
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