Homicide Victim Had History With Sonoma Co. Law Enforcement, Feds

A Santa Rosa man who was shot to death Wednesday morning near his car in west Santa Rosa was convicted in Sonoma County Superior Court in 2011 for felony forgery and misdemeanor driving with a concealed weapon in his vehicle in 2010, according to court records.

Jesus Daniel Sanchez-Bastidas, 27, was sentenced in December to three years probation and 90 days in the North County Detention Facility for the forgery. The sentence was modified in February 2015 and he was given until April 24 to begin serving his term.

Bastidas was sentenced to three years probation on the concealed weapon charge. A felony count of participating in a criminal street gang was dismissed, according to court records. Bastidas also was ordered not to associate with gang members or wear gang attire.

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Santa Rosa police have not disclosed a possible motive for Bastidas’ murder in the 2100 block of West Steele Lane. Bastidas had left his home and went to his car along a nearby curb line when the suspect walked up to him and shot him multiple times with a handgun, police Sgt. David Linscomb said.

Bastidas was found lying on the sidewalk in the Cedar Woods condominium complex around 7:25 a.m. He died at the scene.

The suspect was described as a man in his 20s with a dark complexion who was wearing a dark hoodie and blue jeans. The suspect was seen running west on Apple Valley Lane, police said. Linscomb said Thursday police have not come up with a concrete motive for the slaying but nothing has come up to indicate it was gang related. Linscomb said he believes Bastidas is the man who had previously come to the attention of Santa Rosa police, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Department of State.

The U.S. Department of State said on its website that a 26- to-30-year old man it identified as Jesus Daniel Sanchez Bastidas was wanted for questioning by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office regarding a homicide. In Nov. 2010, Bastidas was apprehended by the Santa Rosa Police Department while he was on his way to conduct a home invasion and was arrested for being an unlicensed driver, according to the U.S. Department of State.

Bastidas also was arrested at the time for carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, being a gang member carrying a loaded firearm and conspiracy to commit a felony, according to the State Department.

Santa Rosa police got a warrant to search Bastidas’ vehicle and found handguns, magazines for handguns, plastic ties similar to police flex cuffs, hedge shears, bolt cutters, a black ski mask and aluminum baseball bat, State Department officials said.

Bastidas was wanted by the Diplomatic Security Service for willfully making false statements on a U.S. passport application. He was discovered in May 2011 when he stole the identity of Jose Herminio Angulo-Gonzalez in order to apply for a U.S. passport, according to the State Department.

Bastidas was ordered to leave the Unites States by an immigration judge but failed to appear for his hearing, and as of June 2013, Bastidas was believed to be traveling between Mexico and Santa Rosa. Bastidas was also known as Jose Herminio Angulo-Gonzalez Jr., Nicholas Bastidas-Bega and Jesus Ganboa Perez, according to the State Department.

The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service said Jesus Daniel Sanchez Bastidas was arrested by Border Patrol Officers near Nogales at the Mexico-Arizona border as he tried to illegally enter the United states on May 8, 2014. The Diplomatic Security Service said he was wanted for passport fraud and by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office for questioning about a homicide.

A spokesman for the State Department’s San Francisco office would not comment on Bastidas’ activity in Sonoma County nor confirm Bastidas’ date of birth.

--Bay City News