BISBEE - An illegal immigrant from Mexico who burglarized a home in the Chiricahua Mountains was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Friday.
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"I had been walking for four days," Granillo-Leon said. "I wanted to be able to eat so I could continue walking."
Defense attorney Mark Higgins asked Hoggatt to sentence Granillo-Leon to probation, but the judge opted for a prison term, citing the emotional trauma of the victims and the defendant's history of illegal border-crossings into the U.S.
According to court documents, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended Granillo-Leon on Jan. 27 and found an estimated $24 of food items in his backpack. They were able to trace the food to a home on Rucker Canyon Road thanks to a jar of homemade apple butter jam that had been marked by the person who made it.
When Cochise County sheriff's deputies checked the home, they found that a front window had been smashed with a rock.
Granillo-Leon was allegedly carrying two bundles of marijuana valued at $38,256 when he was arrested,.
But the drug charges against him were dropped as part of a plea deal with the state.
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