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Nogales International
October 20, 2015
A federal jury found two Mexican nationals guilty of first-degree felony murder and eight other counts Thursday in the 2010 slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near Rio Rico.
The 12-member jury deliberated approximately three hours before delivering its verdict in a Tucson courtroom packed with Border Patrol agents, family members and news reporters.
Speaking afterward, Terry’s sister Michelle Terry-Balogh said when the first conviction of first-degree murder came in, “my heart knew then that we would go all the way.”
“Brian would have been pleased to see his brother agents testifying and their display of love for him almost five years after his death,” she said outside U.S. District Court in Tucson. “This is just another step in getting justice for my brother.”
The defendants, Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza, were part of a five-man “rip crew” that crossed illegally into the U.S. seeking to steal drugs from smugglers in a known target area in the vicinity of Peck Canyon.
Both had pleaded not guilty to all nine counts, including first-degree felony murder in which a person died during the commission of a crime. In this case the crime in question is commerce by robbery and attempted interference of commerce by robbery. The men also faced four counts of assault on a federal officer.
