A Montgomery County grand jury has indicted an illegal immigrant wanted for attempted murder in Tarrant County but who fled to Conroe and allegedly tried to alter his fingerprints.
The grand jury indicted Victor Hugo Mancera, 33, of Conroe, on Thursday. Mancera, also known as Del Billar or Moises Arenas, is being held on a $25,000 bond, the warrant from Tarrant County and an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement hold, according to jail records.
He was arrested in November 2004 in Tarrant County for an attempted murder in August 2003, a spokeswoman with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Mancera failed to show up for a June 2005 court date.
“It was a drive-by shooting,” said Katherine Scardino, a Houston defense attorney representing Mancera. “Apparently, nobody got shot.
“This is not a good indictment. Here we are spending taxpayers’ money for a third-degree felony.”
Mansera is charged in Montgomery County with tampering with or altering physical evidence, a third-degree felony, and failure to identify a fugitive from justice, a misdemeanor. If convicted of the third-degree felony charge, Mansera faces two to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Attempted murder is a second-degree felony, and if he is convicted in Tarrant County, Mansera faces two to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Scardino didn’t know the specifics of how Mancera tried to alter his fingerprints.
“If one were to try to alter their fingerprints,” she said, “one would have the skin taken off the fingertip and put it on another fingertip.”
Source - http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/10/18/conroe_courier/news/mancera101910.txt
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