Webb County Sheriff's Deputy Peter Lozano III, 21, Criminally Indicted For Intoxication Manslaughter Of Kassandra Lozano, 25, In Texas

Deputy Lozano III was suspended and placed on administrative leave pending to out outcome of a criminal investigation after being indicted for intoxication manslaughter.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 24, 2024

Laredo, Texas - On Wednesday, the Webb County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Deputy Peter Lozano III, 21, was suspended and placed on administrative leave after being criminally indicted for the February 12 death of Kassandra Lozano, 25, in a multiple vehicle crash on Loop 20 near Casa Blanca Lake. Lozano III is accused of driving a grey Chevrolet corvette while intoxicated and crashing into another vehicle that had crashed with a second vehicle. Kassandra was Lozano's passenger and girlfriend who succumbed to her injuries. Four other people including Lozano III suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Deputy Lozano III was criminally charged on March 27th with intoxication manslaughter with vehicle, intoxication assault with vehicle and 2 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the criminal complaint.

A $200,000 cash bond for intoxication manslaughter was set for Lozano III and $100,000 cash bond for each additional count. Lozano III was booked at the Webb County jail and then posted bond on April 24, according to the Webb County jail records.

Lozano III, if convicted is facing from 2 to 20 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines, or both for intoxication manslaughter; facing up to 20 years in prison for intoxicated assault with vehicle, and facing from 2 to 20 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines, or both for each felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Lozano III was sworned in as a Webb County Sheriff's Deputy in mid 2020.

The Laredo Police Department investigated the case.

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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Antifa Protesters To Converge In Milwaukee To Protest The Trump MAGA Cult (RNC 2024) National Convention Anti-immigrant And Hate Rhetoric Propaganda Agenda Targeted At People Of Color

Milwaukee local protest organizers and activist groups are reaching out nationally and inviting hundreds of thousands of Antifa protesters to Milwaukee in mid-July in order to stage peaceful protests during the 3-day Trump MAGA Cult (RNC 2024) National Convention.

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 24, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) learned that local groups and activist organizations are preparing and reaching out nationally to invite hundreds of thousands of Antifa (Anti-facist) protesters to Milwaukee in an effort to protest the Trump MAGA Cult (RNC 2024) National Convention anti-immigrant and hate rhetoric propaganda agenda targeted at people of color.

H. Nelson Goodson, a Civil Rights and Immigrant Rights Advocate, and a Southside Milwaukee resident says, "that any national political party is welcome in the City of Milwaukee, including Wisconsin when it has the best interests of the nation, but when a national political party engages in anti-immigrant prosecution, lies/spreads mistruths about people of color and especially promotes hate rhetoric propaganda to advance their own agenda by creating fear mongering and division in our diverse communities like what former U.S. President Donald J. Trump and his MAGA (Make Amerikkka Great Again) cult and insurrectionist patriots (supremacists) are best known to do, they are definitely "Not Welcome" in Milwaukee."

The 3-day Trump MAGA Cult (RNC 2024) National Convention is scheduled for July 15-18, 2024 at the Fiserv Forum (Baird Center) in Milwaukee.

Editor's note:

Intel from the Latino community at large indicates that many Milwaukee Latino activists and organizers are contemplating wearing Chihuahua masks as a unprecedented form to protest the anti-immigrant and hate rhetoric propaganda targeted at people of color by Trump and his MAGA cult.

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Off-duty Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca, 30, Murdered, His Badge, Service Handgun And Personal Vehicle Stolen By Unknown Suspect

Off-duty Officer Huesca was pulled from his personal vehicle by a unknown suspect, then shot multiple times, police badge and handgun stolen.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 22, 2024

Chicago, Illinois - On Sunday, off-duty Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca, 30, suffered fatal gunshot injuries at the Southwest area Gage Park neighborhood in Chicago by a unknown suspect, his police badge, service handgun and personal vehicle were stolen, the Chicago Police Department reported.

Officer Huesca was shot at least 20 times with automatic switch weapon after being pulled from his vehicle in what police believe was a carjacking. Responding nearby police officers to a shot spotter detector alert in the area just before 3:00 a.m. at the 3100 block of W. 56 St., near Kedzie Ave. found injured Officer Huesca in the roadway.

Huesca was declared deceased at a local hospital. Police say that the suspect removed Huesca's badge from his uniform, took his service handgun and personal vehicle.

Officer Huesca had just ended his shift and was headed home when he was targeted and killed. He was two days from celebrating his 31st birthday, according to police.

Huesca had 6 years of service with the Chicago Police Department.

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Milwaukee Police Officer Marco A. López Reached Plea Agreement In Felony Fraud Case In Connection With The Death Of Keishon D. Thomas In 2022

López is scheduled for a plea/sentencing hearing on May 10.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 22, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Last Tuesday, April 16, Marco A. López, 41, a Milwaukee Police Officer under full suspension has reached a plea agreement resolution with the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office (MCDAO), according to Milwaukee County court records. A plea/sentencing hearing for López was scheduled for May 10th.

López is charged with one felony count for misconduct/office-fraud/record/statement (making false record entries) in connection with the in-custody death of Keishon D. Thomas, 20, at Milwaukee Police Department District Station 5 in 2022.

Police Officer López, if convicted is facing up to 3 years, 6 months in prison and could be fined up to $10,000, or both. Officer López has over 12 years of service with the department. 

According to the criminal complaint, Officer López was to check Keishon and other individuals (inmates) in custody at the District Station 5 every 15 minutes during his shift. Video surveillance footage from inside the station showed that López did not check on the inmates including Keishon at least 10 times who were in custody.

Officer López was found to have falsely logged 10 times in the cell block booking sheet that he in fact checked on the inmates that were locked up, when in fact video surveillance footage inside the police station showed he did not.

Another Milwaukee Police Officer Donald W. Krueger, 50, pleaded no contest in March 2024 and was convicted for one felony count of misconduct in office and fraud in connection with the February 2022 death of Thomas while in custody. Former Milwaukee Police Officer Krueger retired before the felony conviction.

Krueger's sentencing under a plea agreement with the MCDAO, he was fined $5,000 and will serve no prison time, according to court records.

According to the criminal complaint, Krueger neglected Keishon, who was confined at the Milwaukee Police District 5 Station. He neglected Keishon by failing to garner him medical attention, despite seeing Keishon dry heave multiple times, being informed Keishon had recently ingested multiple controlled substances, noting Keishon's profuse sweating, and stating he was going to call an ambulance, which Krueger never did. Keishon ultimately died in custody at the district station.

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Milwaukee Police Plan To Shut Down S. Chávez Drive On Cinco de Mayo 2024 Weekend To Prevent Impromptu Mexican Flag Waving Cruising And Chaotic Crowds

Police tentative plan to shut down S. César E.  Chávez Drive during the Cinco de Mayo weekend celebrations to prevent gathering of chaotic crowds, impromptu Mexican flag waving, parading and cruising. 

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 20, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, April 19, 2024, the S. César E. Chávez Drive Bid 38 business owners and several Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) officers including Sergeant Guadalupe Ramirez Cervantes from the MPD District Station 2 met at the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School to discuss public safety measures during the impromptu Cinco de Mayo celebrations in the Southside of Milwaukee.

Sinai Mendoza-Zarate, the Executive Director of the S. César E. Chávez Drive Bid 38 says that the Bid 38 is working with police to make sure that this year's anticipated Cinco de Mayo impromptu flag waving, parading and cruising by the Chávez Bid 38 Corridor is safe for the community celebrating the historic event.

The tentative plan, police are planning to shut S. Chávez Drive from W. National Ave. to W. Greenfield Ave. after 5:00 p.m. during Saturday, May 4, 2024 and Sunday, May 5, 2024 to prevent a large gathering of vehicles with individuals engaged in impromptu flag waving, parading and cruising along the S. Chávez Drive business corridor. (YouTube video of police tentative plan at link: https://youtu.be/FOtKZzZnLQM)

Also, police will ask business owners with large parking lots on S. Chávez Drive to close them to prevent vehicles from parking.

Mexican food trucks will not be allowed on S. Chávez Drive after the street is shut down. The food trucks that usually park along S. Chávez Drive will need to move to side streets, according to police.

Victor Huyke, from El Conquistador Latino Newspaper and sponsor of the one-day Cinco de Mayo festival on Saturday, May 4 at the United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS) Corporate parking lot at the 2700 block of S. Chase Ave. told the attendees that on April 9, 2024, Milwaukee Police Captain Eric Pfeiffer from Police District Station 6 alleged that the Cinco de Mayo festival at UMOS had a car show and that afterwards some violence occurred at S. Chávez Drive. Captain Peiffer wrote, "There were some concerns that stemmed from last year's event that we wish to address and avoid some of the violence that happened later that night on César Chávez. One of the things of concern was the car show on the lot at UMOS. As you know from past events, the car show acts as a catalyst for cruising problems after the festival is done. Even though these past violent events have happened off the UMOS grounds, there is no doubt that the vehicles at the car show were part of those problems later..."

Huyke told police and those at the Chávez Bid 38 meeting that last year, there was no car show at the UMOS Cinco de Mayo one-day festival and what happened at S. Chávez Dtive occurred on its own and police failed to neutralize the chaos ending with two shootings at W. Scott Street and S. 15 place and at the 1200 block of S. Chávez Drive in the Southside of Milwaukee.

This year, the Cinco de Mayo festival at UMOS will include a car show and contest, according to El Conquistador advertisement.

Huyke also stated, that in the last 50 years of doing the Cinco de Mayo festival by UMOS in the Southside, no problems were ever reported.

Police haven't released any information about how many citations were handed out and how many vehicle related infractions occurred in the Southside of Milwaukee last year during the Cinco de Mayo impromptu flag waving, parading and cruising event.

Last year, a 17-year-old male suspect shot an automatic handgun in the air, he was then shot by a Milwaukee police officer for failing to put down his weapon, arrested, charged and convicted. (Full article link: https://tinyurl.com/2vwkdywk)

The Chávez Bid 38 members say that they are working with police to make sure the Cinco de Mayo impromptu flag waving, parading and cruising next month doesn't turn into violence and chaos like last year and the tentative closure of S. Chávez Drive will provide public safety for those celebrating the Cinco de Mayo weekend.

The Chávez Bid 38 plans to work with Kevin Kuschel, the Executive Director of Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative to have an organized Cinco de Mayo event on S. Chávez Drive in 2025.

Editor's note: Prior closures of S. Chávez Drive has only diverted the impromptu flag waving cruising to other Southside mainstream areas that include W. Lincoln Ave., S. 6 Street viaduct, S. 13, W. Historic Mitchell Street, W. Burnham and W. Pierce Streets. Also, police and the S. Chávez Drive Bid 38 and the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative haven't reached out to local Latino media to educate the community about the consequences of engaging in chaotic acts and reckless driving during the impromptu flag waving cruising in the Southside of Milwaukee. As Police Sgt. Ramirez Cervantes explained, that last year they had a lack of resources to handle the anticipated problems that come with unorganized parading and flag waving cruising. Sgt. Ramirez Cervantes says that this year, they received resources to manage any anticipated issue during the Cinco de Mayo impromptu flag waving parading.

The lack of Latinos in supervisor positions in the Milwaukee Police Department, for example having Hispanic police captains and Latino supervisors in the chain of command at MPD has become an issue of trying to reinvent the wheel to handle the same community issues dealing with reckless driving, chaotic crowd gatherings, public drinking (beer/alcohol) and shooting incidents in the community not associated with organized Mexican and Puerto Rican festivals in the Summer months.

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46-year-old Marcell D. Walker Charged With 7 Felonies Including Drugs And Loaded Handgun By Felon After 3 Vehicle Crash At S. César E. Chávez Dr. In Milwaukee

Walker fled police after a traffic stop for unregistered vehicle.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 18, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Thursday, Marcell D. Walker, 46, a convicted felon was charged with 7 felonies for one count of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (>15-40 grams) and modifier, using a dangerous weapon, three counts for 1st-degree recklessly endangering safety, flee or eluding police causing bodily harm or property damage, possession of a firearm by felon and bail jumping for the April 12, 2024 police pursuit and three vehicle crash at the 1600 block of W. Mineral Street.

If convicted, Walker is facing 12 years and 6 months in prison and up to $25,000 in fines, or both for each count of 1st-degree recklessly endangering safety; facing up to 10 years in prison and up to $25,000 in fines, or both for each count of possession of a firearm and cocaine, and facing up to 6 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines, or both for bail jumping. A $30,000 cash bail was set for Walker.

According to the criminal complaint, police spotted Walker driving an unregistered vehicle and made a traffic stop. He stopped but then fled police and a police pursuit was initiated in the Southside of Milwaukee including Northbound on S. César E. Chávez Drive and eventually, Walker heading Eastbound and ran a red light on W. Mineral Street and crashed into several vehicles.

Walker had to be extricated from the vehicle by Milwaukee Fire Department first responders.

Walker was hospitalized and arrested. Several other individuals from the other vehicles involved suffered non-life threatening injuries and treated.  

Police recovered a bag of cocaine and fentanyl, and also found a loaded handgun in Walker's vehicle.

The initial police pursuit was captured by Rivera's Western Wear outdoor video surveillance cameras at the 1000 block of S. Chávez Drive in the Southside of Milwaukee.

The video footage of the police pursuit and crash was exclusively released to Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) by Alejandro Rivera. (Crash impact video at link: https://youtu.be/YltCcebz9tw)

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Torso And Arm Found At South Milwaukee Shoreline Believed To Be From Sade Carleena Robinson's Body, Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office Reported

More body parts found at South Milwaukee shoreline, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office reported.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 18, 2024

South Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Thursday, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) reported that a torso and a arm washed up at the South Milwaukee shoreline. The MCSO believes, the body parts belong to Sade Carleena Robinson, 19, according to their preliminary homicide investigation report.

Robinson's torso and arm were found around 7:37 a.m. on Thursday morning by a person walking on the beach near 3305 Marina Rd.

The MCSO also says that the have contracted a sonar boat to search the lake and the homicide investigation is ongoing.

The homicide suspect, Maxwell Steven Anderson, 33, was charged with three felony counts, 1st-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and arson of property other than building in connection with the April 1st homicide and dismemberment of Robinson in Milwaukee.

Anderson is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for 1st-degree intentional homicide, is also facing up to 12 years and 6 months in prison and up to $25,000 in fines, or both for mutilating a corpse, and up to 3 years and 6 month in prison and up to $10,000 in fines, or both for arson. A $5M cash bail was set for Anderson and a Hold was placed.

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