(Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
Two felony charges and one misdemeanor charge were dismissed today in court against 56-year-old Jorge B. Trujillo, of Mexico.
Over 28 years ago, when Jorge B. Trujillo was 28-years-old, he allegedly sold cocaine to undercover law enforcement officers and a confidential informant in Kenosha County. For the controlled buys, a state agent and local police posed as drug users and met up with him on two occasions and Trujillo allegedly sold $150 worth of cocaine on April 30, 1996, and $300 worth on June 25, 1996. A warrant was issued and he was pulled over and arrested on December 17, 1996. He was allegedly in possession of a “small amount of cocaine” on this date.
On December 18, 1996, he was charged with two counts of Felony Delivery Of Cocaine and one count of Possession Of Cocaine. He faced 21 years in the Wisconsin Prison System. This, however, was before truth-in-sentencing, so he would likely not have served that many years in prison.
Trujillo was given a $10,000 cash bail, which he posted. He would never be seen in Kenosha County for the next 28 years. He fled to Mexico. On January 28, 1997, Court Commissioner Carl Greco issued a $100,000 warrant. Trujillo remained in Mexico, seemingly until this year, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement captured Trujillo in Texas. Law Enforcement asked DA Mike Graveley (D) if he wanted to spend the tens of thousands of dollars to extradite and prosecute Trujillo to Kenosha with no knowledge of the case. He agreed to do so. Trujillo was booked into the Kenosha County Jail on June 12, 2024.
(Kenosha County Sheriff)
The evidence, including a photo used to identify Trujillo, and most of the drugs, has been destroyed in the last 28 years, making the case difficult or impossible for the successful prosecution of the case.
A member of the legal community told KCE that DA Graveley made a mistake by paying the large amount of money to prosecute this case as it likely isn’t winnable. “[Graveley] should have evaluated this case and checked on the evidence and witnesses before he extradited this man. That’s why the statute of limitations exist. After almost three decades, it’s almost impossible to win a case. Evidence gets destroyed, witnesses die or are unavailable.” Trujillo will likely be deported either way.
Trujillo’s attorney had previously told the court that he just wants to go back to Mexico and be with his family. Graveley, instead, wants Trujillo in Wisconsin’s prisons.
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Did the state of WI pay to have him extradited, or Kenosha? Money well spent….
Sounds like one of those episodes in locked up abroad where some poor mope gets fkd up by a country imprisoning them for some insane amount of time for minor drug charges…
gravely strikes again with waste of tax payer money , Lucky he is going bye bye and this stupid stuff will stop
Should have Gravely pay that bill before he leaves
The incoming District Attorney MUST launch an exhaustive investigation into the egregious misuse of public funds during Carli and puppeteer Angie’s reign of impunity. The shocking 1996 case exemplifies the depths of this corruption, where an Assistant District Attorney shamefully scrambled for peer support ON THE RECORD to defend an indefensible position – while defendant Trujillo languished behind bars WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE. The sheer audacity of these officials, operating under a delusional cloak of immunity, demonstrates their complete disregard for justice and public trust. It took KCE’s explosive exposé to finally shatter their wall of secrecy, prompting these cowards to resign en masse rather than face accountability for their actions. Mr. Solis now shoulders the monumental task of excavating through years of deliberately buried cases left behind by these deserters. The full findings of this investigation MUST be delivered to Madison where proper authorities can finally address these grave injustices.
Gravely will have a party when he leaves with all of the hack prosecutors who are leaving, where they will all laud the great job he did as DA. Good riddance.
So we just let drug dealers free now? 🤦🏼♀️
Do you want literally millions of our taxpayer money to go towards fetching people from across the U.S….. all for minor crimes…..?
Example: John Schmo has a battery charge from a bar fight 15 years ago. He paid a $200 bond, then went to California. YOU want him apprehended….
So, we pay $4,000 to a transport company to get him and drive back from California. He gets put in the jail, fed and clothed and goes to his initial appearance. We pay for all the court costs and fees and jail costs.
Meanwhile John Schmo’s kids are hungry because he’s not there to work and pay the bills. His rent is past due.
He sits here at OUR expense for two weeks. He gets a deal… time served.
We lost a ton of money because Schmo had a bad night 15 years ago. The guy he hit who insulted his mom has forgiven him long ago. Schmo is now stranded in Wisconsin while he tries to find a way home.
Are YOU going to drive him back to California?
There are tons of people right here in Kenosha that have warrants. Let’s deal with them. They are the local frequent flyers filling the jail and wasting everyone’s time. Unless it’s a murderer or child molester level crime, we don’t need to hunt down long gone mopes.
Well said, worry about the serious crimes that have no statute of limitations. Not for selling a couple hundred dollars worth of nose candy to law enforcement 28 FUCKING years ago. smh Kenosha DA!
Yes. If you commit a crime you should go to jail.
Extraditions are for felonies only, not misdemeanors.
Why are you deleting people’s comments? I thought you wanted people to be able to speak freely. Clearly you don’t want opinions that don’t line up with yours…. Wait, does that man you’re A LIBERAL? A DEMOCRAT? Is that why you’re deleting comments? Because they don’t line up with yours?
28 years later when there is no remaining evidence and costing the county tens of thousands of doallrs? Yes.
Not exactly.
Good for him! Now he needs to take his taco ass back to Mexico and don’t ever come back.
Word up! Don’t do the crime…
wow, picking on my Mexican brother. As a Mexican, I find this treatment of my brown-skinned brother racist and overreaching. The United States of israel is supposed to be a beacon for freedom rather than a totalitarian state full of drunken and drugged sports fans. Oh, by the way, the drone “projections” are USI government-owned.
trying to blame Iran to start another sand war. seriously usi stop trying to act like a free country that is better than the rest.
Yes that was a total racist comment. I have grandchildren that are mexican.! And honestly in today’s world racism is a sign of immaturity. Knock it off!
Comedy is hard . Leave it to us professionals.
Shalom
FYI, more Mexicans are reverse migrating back to Mexico than coming in….been going on for quite some time.
Because they’ve made enough $ to achieve and pass on generational wealth, and take it all with them. They don’t want to have their granddaughters and daughters in the bathroom with men, and they don’t want to live near a bunch of violent people like Franklin. Maybe we should all move there and be wealthy by their standards.
Mierda de caballo !!!
True. Most are here for money… working the low paid jobs many Americans are too lazy to do. They keep the farms and factories running…. so you can pay less for American goods than the now tariff-hiked overseas goods your orange idiot arranged.
Kenosha’s DA of Lawlessness, Mike Graveley
Is ICE waiting to take him away?
When is Gravely ‘s last day ?
Send the guy home tell him never to come back or he will never leave again .
Gravely is a disgrace to the profession and to the city.
How about keeping jailed all the fentanyl killers! Pfffffttttt marijuana!
What are you afraid of?
Where is the info that supports your headline? Where did he set up his prosecutors to fail? Maybe you should learn how extradition works before you bash a decision to extradite! The man had an active felony warrant after he fled the county to avoid prosecution. There is a time limit to respond to an extraction request from another state. Nobody, not even your buddy Solis, has enough time to ensure that any and all evidence that was there is still there years later before responding to the request to extradite. Again, not even your buddy Solis has enough time to gather that info before the decision has to be made. Based on the picture you’re painting, it sounds like your boy Solis is just going to deny any and all extradition requests because it cost money to do so. Is he just going to deny prosection every time? Sounds reasonable considering he is a horrible trial attorney and seems to push all his clients toward a plea deal to avoid showing just how bad of an attorney he really is.
And instead of saying “A member of the legal community” in most of your recent posts, why don’t you just name Xavier Solis? Everybody knows he is now and has been your source of information for quite some time. You also keep calling the current DAs office staff a bunch of liberals. Just because you didn’t like some of the decisions that have been made does not make them liberal. I hope you’re hungry Kevin, you may be eating those words of support for your boy Solis once he starts making the same decisions you’re so publicly critical of. It’s easy to criticize when you won’t know what the job entails. It’s pretty hard to recover when it’s your friend that you have to defend after being so critical of their predecessor.
Just how long does it take to call the evidence office/person and ask them to look for boxes and papers ?
And in an instance like this, wouldn’t it be asked to drop everything and expedite this request ?
One day ? Maybe two ?
And if it takes longer than that, what does that say about that process anyway ? The people, the process, the building and rooms where evidence is stored ?
Wouldn’t that be something the DAs office can or should revamp ?
That aside, when you look at the totality of the original case, is just having this guy not live in the US enough ?
Gravley could have just told Texas no, just deport him back to Mexico with the warning not to come back.
Isn’t that what we all want anyway ?
Great,now sgt.hard is pissed off.(amateur gay porn actor)