Jorge Napoles-Perez sentenced to life in prison for attempted capital murder
Written by admin, 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.
