Jorge Napoles-Perez sentenced to life in prison for attempted capital murder
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Jun 12, 2015, Comments Off
Courtesy Yanira Deleon,
The Office of the District Attorney reports a guilty verdict for Jorge Napoles-Perez Jr. in connection to two bank robberies and two counts of aggravated robbery of a vehicle that led to a high-speed chase where the defendant shot numerous times at officers.
On February 15, 2007, Jorge Napoles-Perez robbed the Laredo National Bank inside Mall Del Norte after purchasing a phone from Verizon Wireless inside Circuit City. The receipt from the phone purchase had a copy of his image from his identification, which was used for Wanted posters that disseminated across the city. A few weeks later, on March 17, 2007, Napoles-Perez, along with a co-defendant, robbed International Bank of Commerce located inside Wal-Mart on Zapata Highway.
Both men then stole a vehicle at gunpoint from a nearby neighborhood. While attempting to make their getaway, they led Laredo police officers on a high-speed chase from South Laredo to the downtown area. Napoles-Perez fired his weapon several times striking an LPD unit. They ended the pursuit by plunging the vehicle into the river banks of the Rio Grande and swimming into Mexico.
