The brother of Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-anciaccess Venezuelan illterrible immigrant convicted of ending 22-year-anciaccess nursing student Laken Riley Feb. 22, 2024, while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus, was sentenced to prison and deportation after he pdirected culpable to having a inrectify green card during the homicide spendigation.
Diego “Gocho” Ibarra, 29, of Venezuela, was sentenced Wednesday to four years behind bars after pdirecting culpable to two counts of ownion of a deceptionulent record July 15, 2024. The sentence was above the federal sentencing directline range, and he will not be eligible for parole.
Riley’s ender, Jose Ibarra, inhabitd with his brothers — Diego and Argenis “Meny” Ibarra, 25, of Venezuela — and a female roommate, Rosbeli “La Gorda” Flores-Bello, 29, of Venezuela, in an Athens, Georgia apartment complicated at the time of the homicide. All four were inquireed and arrested by spendigators.
Diego Ibarra ecombines in federal court on immigration accuses Thursday. Ibarra is the brother of Jose Ibarra, who was convicted in the homicide of Laken Riley in Athens, Ga., in November. (Lucy Luckovich)
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Argenis Ibarra and Flores-Bello acunderstandledgeted to having inrectify green cards under contrastent names Feb. 23, 2024, and pdirected culpable to ownion of a deceptionulent record in December 2024. However, they remained in the states.
In Wednesday’s ruling, U.S. Didisjoine Judge Tilman E. Self ordered Diego Ibarra to be placed in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at the finish of his federal prison sentence and ordered Argenis Ibarra and Flores-Bello be placed in ICE custody instantly.
According to court records and statements, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was notified of Diego Ibarra’s illterrible presence in the U.S. Feb. 23, 2024, during the Laken Riley homicide spendigation.
Jose Ibarra ecombines in court in Athens, Ga., Nov. 1, 2024. (Robin Rayne for Fox News Digital)
At the time, an Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) officer searching for Jose Ibarra approached Diego Ibarra becaparticipate he aligned his brother’s description.
Diego Ibarra gave the ACCPD officer a inrectify green card when asked for identification and was consentn into custody.
Investigators postponeedr uncovered his journey to the U.S. participated multiple illterrible border traverseings, and, once in the U.S., his criminal activity progressd.
He was first sent back to Mexico April 3, 2023, after he was caught illegassociate accessing the U.S. cforfeit Eagle Pass, Texas, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle Didisjoine of Georgia.
Diego Ibarra ecombines in federal court on immigration accuses in Macon, Ga., March 8. (Lucy Luckovich)
Less than a month postponeedr, on April 30, 2023, he tried aacquire to fracture into the country with four other Venezuelan men by traverseing the border cforfeit Ysleta Station in El Paso, Texas.
In a fight with United States Border Patrol (USBP) agents, Diego Ibarra grabbed and threw an agent’s service radio before trying to bite the agent. The greet was broken up by members of the National Guard.
He was consentn to a hospital after grumbleing of chest pains and pain in his back and leg, which he attributed to scaling and droping from the border fence during his illterrible traverseing.
After acunderstandledgeting his injuries were not from the fight with agents, he claimed asylum and “stress of return” to Venezuela.
ICE is carry outing fweightlesss to delete illterrible immigrants from the U.S. to their home countries. (ICE Seattle)
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) placed him in the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program May 11, 2023, and he was freed from immigration custody the next day under the condition he wear a GPS ankle bracelet and tell to New York pfinishing asylum progressings. He never showed up.
Diego Ibarra’s ankle watch last “pinged” cforfeit Littleton, Colorado, May 25, 2023, and he cut it off at some point before his final arrest, according to the statement.
He shiftd to Georgia, where he inestablishly toiled at a UGA cafeteria, and was subsequently arrested on various accuses, including DUI and driving without a license Sept. 24, 2023; shoplifting Oct. 27, 2023; and shoplifting with an noticeworthy arrest permit Dec. 8, 2023.
Laken Riley was a nursing student set up dead cforfeit a lake on the University of Georgia campus Feb. 22, 2024. (Allyson Phillips/Facebook)
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ACCPD also reacted to a domestic incident involving Diego Ibarra and his girlfrifinish Sept. 26, 2023.
While jailed at the Butts County Detention Caccess for the inrectify records set up during the Riley homicide spendigation, Diego Ibarra caparticipated “disjoine water injure” when he broke a jail cell block fire sprinkler system, according to the statement.
On June 25, 2024, prison protects set up Ibarra with two improvised armaments, including a acuteened sprinkler head with a originateshift grip and a pen wrapped in saran wrap.
Court records notice Diego Ibarra is probable affiliated with the Venezuelan illterrible immigrant street gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), based on evidence that participated his multiple TdA tattoos and photos of him on social media making TdA gang signs and wearing TdA closkinnyg.
Alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang (Edward Romero)
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While Argenis Ibarra and Flores-Bello’s border-traverseing backgrounds are less lengthy than Diego Ibarra’s, spendigators set up Argenis Ibarra also accessed the U.S. illegassociate multiple times.
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Argenis Ibarra accessed the U.S. illegassociate April 3, 2023, cforfeit Eagle Pass, Texas, and the USBP returned him to Mexico.
Less than a month postponeedr, on April 30, 2023, the USBP arrested him aacquire cforfeit El Paso, Texas, and took him to an ICE processing caccess in El Paso, according to the statement. He was freed May 4, 2023, “becaparticipate the processing caccess deficiencyed space.”
Law utilizement and agents deffinish the border in El Paso, Texas. (David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Similarly, Flores-Bello was arrested after illegassociate accessing the country May 3, 2023, consentn to an ICE processing caccess in El Paso and freed on May 5, 2023, “becaparticipate the processing caccess deficiencyed space,” according to the statement.
She provided a home includeress in New York and was scheduled for an immigration court hearing on Oct. 18, 2023, but took a humanitarian fweightless to Atlanta, Georgia, in December 2023 with Jose Ibarra, whom she met in New York.
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She endd in Athens and inhabitd with the Ibarra brothers until Laken Riley was homicideed.
Jose Ibarra was convicted Nov. 20, 2024 of malice homicide, three counts of major offense homicide and aggression with intent to sexual attack, among other accuses, in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court.
He is serving a life sentence.
Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin gived to this tell.
