Seattle Judge Veronica Galván The decision to release an armed robbery suspect who allegedly dismembered a teenager — and a host of similarly progressive decisions on the bench — makes her “effectively as dangerous as the violent suspects she chooses to keep off the streets,” a talk show host said. Jason Rantz told Fox News Digital.
Mellors J. was charged. Canales, a 17-year-old Norteño gang member reputed to have committed murders. Assault, kidnapping and theft On December 17. Canales and an accomplice allegedly lured a 14-year-old to Lions Park in Everett, KOMO News reported.
The victim, who later admitted to police his association with rival South Side Locos, was left for dead after being tied to a tree, stripped, stabbed eight times, carved with the letter “N” and disemboweled, police said. Snohomish County District Attorney's Office. The attack, which lasted 20 minutes, was recorded on surveillance camera footage, according to the office.
The victim survived and fled to a nearby house for help.
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Seattle Judge Veronica Galvan released Mellors J. Canales before his next court appearance on armed robbery charges. Canales allegedly disemboweled a 14-year-old rival gang member while out of prison. (bushy)
Police quickly identified Canales as the prime suspect in the attack. Police found a blood-stained sweatshirt and blood-stained green underwear when Everett police arrested him. KTTH reported.
Weeks earlier, on November 15, Canales was arrested on an alleged charge Gang-related Armed robbery in Seattle. He was released without bail on Dec. 2 by Galvan over the objections of the King County Prosecutor's Office, and was awaiting trial when he allegedly mutilated the 14-year-old girl.
“Please understand that ethics rules prohibit the court from commenting on any specific case. If you wish, you may request a copy of the hearing recordings through the clerk's office,” Galvan's bailiff, Sonam Lata, told Fox News Digital.
The King County Prosecutor's Office could not immediately be reached for comment.
“She doesn't think prison is successful, especially when it comes to juvenile offenders,” Rantz told Fox News Digital. “It's not discouraging. It's not changing behaviors.” “The problem, of course, is that it can't just be seen through the lens of wanting reform. It's also about protecting the public. Every day a dangerous person isn't behind bars where they belong, another day when a dangerous person isn't behind bars where they belong.” . He could commit a felony and create another victim.
“And unfortunately, with this judge, we see that happen over and over again with people who have stood in front of her and gotten a slap on the wrist, if ever,” Rantz continued.
Earlier in 2024, Galvan paroled two 12- and 13-year-old brothers accused of stealing a car using a ghost gun and leading police on a high-speed chase. Fox 13 reported.
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Seattle Judge Veronica Galván was appointed to the King County Superior Court in 2014 by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and she has run unopposed in every election since. (google maps)
In July, it released three teenagers under electronic home monitoring after they allegedly threatened showgoers with loaded guns modified to be automatic. Prosecutors said the teens should be kept behind bars for the safety of the community. KOMO News reported. However, Galvan said she wanted to know if teens could turn things around through community support programs.
“We've been arresting people for years and years, and the crime is still here. Kids are still doing inappropriate things, and we still have troubling behaviors,” she said, according to the outlet. “This is going to take a lot more than just dumping people and locking them up without a key.”
Rantz said Galvan's behavior on the bench is “a perfect example of what happens when you take your ideology, and you make it part of your job, where you look at the decisions you make through the lens of a very specific, justice-focused social ideology.”
Moreover, he said, Galvan is not the only lenient crime judge who regularly releases suspects who have committed more serious crimes.
“I have a cardinal rule on my radio show that when covering any of these types of stories: If you remember the judge's name, it's never for the right reasons,” Rantz said. “It's always because of the tolerance-on-crime policies that they have implemented and adopted. And I know a lot of the names of the judges. Unfortunately, it's because a lot of these judges are making dangerous, reckless decisions that put dangerous people in danger. Back on the streets.”
Pictured is a Seattle Police Department cruiser. (Photo by Getty Images)
“It's not just about Veronica Galvan. I probably could have written a similar story about a number of judges, dozens of judges around the state. She just happened to be in a high-profile case that caught my attention,” Rantz said.
Seattle and Washington are “living the consequences” of progressive court rulings, he said.
“A lot of our judges and a lot of our state prosecutors have taken this position of wanting to dismantle the criminal justice system and then rebuild it through this very specific ideological lens — we've seen that in its clearest form — they've used the language quite literally,” Rantz said. During the BLM movement from 2020 to 2021, they dismantled and rebuilt the criminal justice system.”
“We've seen policies and laws that have been changed that have specifically tried to do that, and create a system where justice is not actually blind,” he continued. “Depending on who the person is as an accused, they are treated differently, more positively for them, more negatively for the victim. This is the unfortunate reality that we have… Washington state He's been infected with this kind of thinking for a very long time now.”
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Galvan was appointed to her position by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee in 2014. Since then, she has repeatedly run unopposed for re-election.
“We have a problem in King County, particularly in Seattle, where we have a lot of these open positions that end up being filled because of a Democratic governor being appointed. And then no one steps up to challenge. It's a failure.” “I think it's on the side of … the local Republican Party,” Rantz said. “You're either going to try to get the best of the best to step up and run for these positions, or you're going to continue to see what we've seen, which is just ceding all this power to the extremists.”
