Good Guy with a Gun #129: Espaniola, NM
Original incident: March 9, 2024. Twenty-five charges in seven years: The system kept giving Pablo Hinz another chance. His luck ran out in an elderly couple's garage.
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An incorrigible criminal is now dead because of our negligent criminal justice system.
Background
This is all from the record of one person, Pablo Hinz.
2016
July 1. Breaking and entering (residential); criminal trespass; and resisting, evading or obstructing an officer.
October 30. Stealing a credit card.
2019
November 24. Breaking and entering (into Española Nursing Home); criminal trespass; resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer
2020
January 27. Violating of conditions of release.
August 15 (or 17). Receiving or transferring stolen motor vehicles, false evidence of title or registration.
September 5. Larceny and residential burglary
September 22. Breaking and entering, concealing identity, and criminal trespass.
2021
February 26. Possession of a controlled substance, failure to yield, no driver’s license, evidence of registration and no proof of insurance
2022
July 29. Burglary of a vehicle.
2023
February 22. Non-residential burglary, larceny $500 <= $2,500, burglary of a vehicle.
August 28. Possession of a controlled substance; battery on a peace officer; and resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer.
Results of the charges
I count twenty-five charges in all. I can’t find results for all of them, but for a blend of the 2019 burglary of a nursing home, the August 2020 stolen vehicles case, and the September 2020 breaking-and-entering case, Hinz pleaded guilty to:
Receiving or transferring stolen vehicles
Concealing identity (from the breaking-and-entering case)
Criminal trespass (from the burglary case)
For that last charge, he was sentenced to 364 days in jail — all suspended. He served 364 days on supervised probation and fees of $55.
With so little reason to stop engaging in criminal activity, nobody should be surprised by what happened next.
