by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News November 18, 2024
Jose Ibarra, an illegal alien, was given a taxpayer-funded plane ticket to Georgia where he is accused of brutally murdering nursing student Laken Riley.
At Ibarra’s murder trial on Monday, his roommate said she and the Venezuelan migrant moved together from New York City to Athens in September 2023.
Jose Ibarra / Court TV / YouTubeRosbeli Elisber Flores-Bello testified that she met Ibarra in Queens and within a month decided to move to Georgia with him.
“[Ibarra] told me there was work possibilities in Athens,” Flores-Bello testified. “His brother [Diego Ibarra] was always calling him saying there was work in Athens, so we came here.”
When asked how they obtained the plane tickets, Flores-Bello said: “In Manhattan, at The Roosevelt Hotel, we asked for a humanitarian flight to Atlanta, on the 9th or 10th of October, 2023.”
Ibarra, 26, was arrested four months later for the killing of 22-year-old Riley.
On Friday prosecutors said Ibarra’s DNA was a direct match to the DNA under Riley’s fingernails, and was “10 billion times more probable than a coincidental match.”
During the trial’s first day, officials also showed images of suspicious scratches on Ibarra’s body at the time of his arrest.
The first scratch officers noted was a four centimeter cut on his lower forearm. Separately, there was a darker scratch behind his ear at the back of his neck, near his hairline. Another marking was noted down the middle of his back.
Prosecutors had earlier said Riley “fought for her life” and had forensic evidence which linked to Ibarra on her body at the time of her death.
“She marked her killer for the entire world to see. It is his DNA. Only his DNA, underneath Laken’s right fingernails,” Georgia special prosecutor Sheila Ross said. “He left behind his thumbprint on her iPhone, which was found near her body at the crime scene.”
According to Ibarra’s immigration file, which was released in Senate hearing in April, he entered the U.S. on Sept. 8, 2022 via the Biden-Harris open border and was quickly released on parole.
In July 2023, Ibarra reported to immigration authorities in New York and was fingerprinted. The results showed he had “a criminal history,” Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said at the hearing.
In September 2023, Ibarra was arrested in New York on charges of injuring a child. The case wasn’t prosecuted.
In November 2023, he applied to Homeland Security for a permit to work legally in the U.S., and it was approved in December — after the department had the records of his criminal history.
“He had a criminal record to start with, he’s in the country on illegal grounds, you have falsely and illegally allowed him in, he commits a crime against a child, it’s expunged,” Hawley said in grilling Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
The roommate of Laken Riley’s killer just testified during his trial that they went to the Roosevelt Hotel together in September 2023 and received a taxpayer funded flight to Georgia.
Your government flew an illegal gang member to Georgia with your money — where he then… pic.twitter.com/7plVTnJhy6
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