GUILTY CA - Agent Robert Rosas, 30, shot to death, Campo, 23 July 2009

Emilio Samyn Gonzales-Arenazas was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for his participation in the July 2009 robbery and murder of United States Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas, Jr.

Gonzales, a 25-year-old Mexican national, pleaded guilty on July 25, 2011, admitting he was one of five armed individuals who conspired to rob a Border Patrol agent of his night vision device, which resulted in Agent Rosas being fatally shot during a struggle. He pleaded guilty to murder of a federal officer committed in perpetration of a robbery and unlawful confinement...

In April 2010, United States District Judge M. James Lorenz sentenced Christian Daniel Castro-Alvarez to 40 years of imprisonment. On November 14, 2013, he sentenced Marcos Rodriguez-Perez to 56 years to run consecutive to a two-year sentence Rodriguez is currently serving for violating his supervised release from a prior alien smuggling conviction. On December 19, 2013, Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes was sentenced to 55 years in custody.

The last defendant, Jose Juan Chacon-Morales, remains a fugitive, and there is a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to his arrest or location.

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The plan to rob an agent was hatched after two of the defendants were robbed of their own goggles while they slept. The technology is prized by cross-border smugglers of drugs and people...

Chacon escaped to Sinaloa after the slaying and remains a fugitive, although authorities say he is likely dead.

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