MAN CHARGED WITH TRANSPORTING UNDOCUMENTED MEXICANS
A U.S. citizen faces charges after he was pulled over with a half-dozen undocumented people in his vehicle.
Jose Feliciano Juarez is charged in the U.S. District Court of Northern Indiana with transporting illegal aliens.
Court documents state Hobart Police originally pulled Feliciano Juarez over in a Ford Escape for an “obstructed” Arizona license plate. They realized he had a federal warrant afterwards and notified Indiana State Police.
State troopers pulled him over Jan. 24 on Interstate 65 in Tippecanoe County, near Lafayette.
Records show he was convicted in May 2024 for a similar offense in New Mexico. When he didn’t show up for supervised release (probation) a few days after he got out, authorities issued an arrest warrant.
In Tippecanoe County, police found six people in the vehicle. Two are facing charges in Hammond because they were deported before. The other four were sent to ICE for deportation.
Feliciano Juarez told police someone paid him $400 for gas and he was slated to get paid $300 per person afterwards. He started in Arizona, going through Denver and Chicago.
Police arrested him with cocaine. He admitted he had the drug in his system on the road.
APPEALS COURT REJECTS BID TO TOSS CONVICTION
The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected a Chicago man’s bid to toss his voluntary manslaughter conviction.
In a 3-0 decision, Appeals Judge Mark Bailey wrote that 31-year-old Dyequan Shykiel-Malik Kizer’s 20-year sentence was appropriate for 29-year-old Darius Sims’ June 9, 2023, shooting death.
Kizer shot Sims once in the chest after a confrontation in Gary.
Court filings show Sims kicked his girlfriend and her two kids out. Kizer – their father – was on the phone with her and overheard parts of the spat.
He can appeal. His earlier release date is in June 2038.
APPEALS COURT REJECTS HAMMOND MAN’S CHILD MOLESTING APPEAL
The court also rejected a Hammond man’s appeal for his 10-year child molesting sentence.
Tryricko Bolian, 52, got the maximum term under his plea deal. He argued it was too harsh.
In a 3-0 decision, Appeals Judge Robert Altice rejected this.
Bolian molested and then raped a girl from January 2016 to December 2018, records allege.
In the last incident, before Christmas 2018, the child tried to elbow him and “pleaded for him to stop,” Altice wrote.
“Nothing about the nature of Bolian’s pattern of repeated sexual abuse of (her) warrants a lesser sentence,” he wrote.
He can also appeal. His earliest release date is in October 2032.
mcolias@post-trib.com
