Life Sentence for Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero

Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero is a criminal, a killer, and an illegal immigrant. He has a long criminal history.

Despite a rap sheet going back six years, Ezeiquiel Lopez was never deported. Only after he was charged with killing [Deputy Frank] Fabiano did anyone try to have him kicked out of this country.

Now, he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars.

From the Wisconsin State Journal:

The man convicted of killing a Kenosha County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to prison with no possible parole.

A life sentence for Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero on a first-degree intentional homicide conviction was mandatory. But Kenosha County Circuit Judge Wilbur Warren had the option Wednesday of setting a parole eligibility date.

Warren said Lopez-Quintero's history of alcohol and drugs convinced him that the defendant should serve life without parole as a way of protecting the community.

If he were to be released, "it's only a matter of time before those factors meet and you either do harm or kill someone else," Warren said.

Lopez-Quintero, 45, of Kenosha, was convicted in March on the homicide charge and a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in the death of Deputy Frank Fabiano, 48, also of Kenosha.

The deputy was shot three times after making a traffic stop of Lopez-Quintero's van last May 16.

Lopez-Quintero told an investigator that he drank tequila and used cocaine that night because he was upset about an affair he thought his wife was having.

Testimony showed Lopez-Quintero fled on foot and was arrested several hours later in a parking lot about four miles away.

Before being sentenced, Lopez-Quintero apologized.

"I'm sorry for what has happened. That's all," he said.

"I don't think there's any doubt you're sorry," the judge told him.

"But are you sorry for the right reasons? Are you sorry because you killed someone, you took a life and you left behind a family? Or are you sorry because you put yourself in a position where you could be incarcerated for the rest of your life?"

Fabiano's wife, Amy, had asked for the maximum sentence.

"It's a relief," Amy Fabiano said later. "I don't have to sit and wonder. It's done. He got life. And that's what we all wanted - life without parole."

Lopez-Quintero didn't apologize himself. An interpreter delivered the comment because the ILLEGAL immigrant from Mexico doesn't speak English.

Amy Fabiano didn't buy that Lopez-Quintero was truly sorry.

After the sentencing, she commented on Lopez-Quintero's statement: "I thought it was disgusting. As far as I am concerned, he is not sorry for what he has done."

Thankfully, Lopez-Quintero will never be a free man again, and Fabiano and her young daughter can try to put their lives back together.

Justice was served.

What troubles me is that Lopez-Quintero should not have been in the country. He should have been deported years ago, long before he murdered Deputy Frank Fabiano.