Obama's mass amnesty of criminals is already paying off dividends. One of his pardoned drug dealers was shot at a halfway house. Another was arrested after a police chase.
A San Antonio man who was freed from life in prison by President Barack Obama is back behind bars after allegedly crashing his vehicle into another motorist and undercover police cars while fleeing from a drug deal Thursday.
Jailed from the time of his arrest in 1990, Gill earned a legal education inside prison libraries and successfully petitioned the then-president for a second chance after his court appeals were exhausted
Gill was one of about 1,700 federal inmates whose sentences Obama commuted as part of a broader campaign to give relief to nonviolent offenders serving long prison terms that dated to a frenzied period in the nation’s war on drugs.
Non-violent offenders is a pro-crime euphemism for drug dealers.
Obama wrote in a signed notification that he granted Gill’s application “because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around."
And you'll never guess what happened next...
According to a criminal complaint affidavit, HSI agents received information about Gill’s renewed involvement in drugs in mid-January. On Thursday, he contacted an unidentified person, via phone, to arrange a deal to buy a kilo of cocaine, according to the affidavit.
About 5:30 p.m., Gill met with that person in the parking lot of Fiesta Food Mart at 6050 Ingram Road and received a black backpack that he put in the car he was driving, the affidavit said. As he left the parking lot on Ingram Road, a sheriff’s deputy in a marked patrol car tried to pull him over.
Gill, the affidavit said, fled at high speed, and the car he was in collided with another vehicle at Callaghan and Bandera roads.
He again tried to flee, but his vehicle was disabled by cars of other law enforcement officers, according to the affidavit. Agents found the backpack in the car, which contained a kilo of cocaine, the affidavit said.
He “related that he was going to sell the cocaine to make money and would be paying a female $26,000 for the cocaine,” the affidavit said.
But fortunately we've learned out lesson...
“We are very shocked and extremely saddened by these allegations,” Calfas said Friday. “At some point, as a civilized society we need to rethink our drug policy. If the allegations against Bobby Gill are true, this is clear proof that extreme prison sentences and mandatory minimums under the federal sentencing guidelines don’t work.”
If there's one thing this case tell us it's that we should be freeing more drug dealers.