He said he had never been involved with drugs before, so he did not know the danger they could have caused. In a short statement offered by Camargo-Corrales with the help of the court’s interpreter, he apologized for what he did. He would surely spend time in the Department of Corrections for his actions, but the lawyer asked that it be limited to a decade of the young man’s life. “He got paid such a nominal amount for such a large amount of drugs.”Ĭamargo-Corrales will already face severe immigration consequences for what he has done and his “promising, promising career is down the toilet,” the attorney said. “I think that led to outright desperation and poor decision-making,” the defense lawyer said. Camargo-Corrales, who came over from Mexico on a specific kind of work visa that did not allow him to gain other employment, was left without a way to provide for his family, the attorney said. The games stopped and then the paychecks stopped. With that, Lombardi asked Dunkelman to sentence Camargo-Corrales at the top of the recommended range - 15 years behind bars - despite having scored in the lowest range of a risk assessment performed by the probation department.Ĭamargo-Corrales’s defense attorney leaned into Lombardi’s argument, saying that his client was living the dream, “the American dream,” until the pandemic shut down the stadium. “If these drugs made their way onto the streets of Denver and Aurora, they could have killed people,” Lombardi said, alluding to where Camargo-Corrales was heading when he was stopped by local law enforcement. The man has no criminal history and was not found to be affiliated with “any known gang” during a pre-sentence investigation, but Lombardi said “the drugs came from an area where there are known cartel gang members.”
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Lombardi’s arguments contained no shortage of baseball puns as he told “the story of the downfall of what could have been a professional baseball player.”Ĭamargo-Corrales was “living the dream,” with a minor league career that had him in a pipeline to play with the Chicago Cubs one day, Lombardi said. Dunkelman of the 5th Judicial District.ĭeputy District Attorney Johnny Lombardi and Camargo-Corrales’s defense attorney were both given time to make final statements before Chief Judge Dunkelman handed down the sentence. Ultimately, the decision as to what penalty Camargo-Corrales would face lay in the hands of Chief Judge Paul R. The class 1 drug felony carries a sentence of 8 to 32 years in the Department of Corrections, but the plea agreement brought that down to a recommended sentencing range of 10 to 15 years. Jesus Camargo-Corrales, 25, was arrested March 17 in Eagle after a traffic stop, when police found approximately 21 pounds of methamphetamine and 1.2 pounds of fentanyl pills in his Chicago Cubs duffel bag.
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