New Charges for Chandra Levy Slay Suspect

(AP)  The man accused of killing federal intern Chandra Levy in Washington in 2001 has been charged with threatening a witness in the case.

A superseding indictment filed Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court charges Ingmar Guandique with obstructing justice, threatening to injure a person and conspiracy. Guandique was charged in April with first-degree murder and other counts in connection with Levy's death. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

The D.C. Public Defender Service, which is representing Guandique, had no immediate comment on the new charges Thursday.

According to the new indictment, Guandique, while in jail, wrote a note to a witness identified only as "J.G." and had someone deliver it. The note threatened to kill J.G. or J.G.'s family if J.G. cooperated with law enforcement in the case against Guandique.

A second threatening letter was mailed to the witness by someone involved in the alleged conspiracy, according to the charges.

Levy, 24, had just completed an internship with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared after leaving her apartment in jogging clothes in May 2001. Her body was found a year later by a man walking a dog in Rock Creek Park.

The case, which stumped investigators for years, has been blamed for destroying the political career of former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit of California, who was romantically linked to Levy. Authorities questioned the Democrat, but he was never a suspect in her death.

When Guandique, 28, was charged this year with sexually assaulting and killing Levy, the illegal immigrant from El Salvador had been serving a 10-year sentence for separate assaults in Rock Creek Park.

Guandique's attorneys have criticized the lack of physical evidence in the case. The case rests in large part on two witnesses who said Guandique told them he was involved in Levy's killing.

The additional charges have delayed the trial, which had been scheduled to start next month.

[porcine_aviator]

Question: why isn't this guy being fed headfirst into a sausage grinder at the local Purina petfood plant?

Oh, wait, I forgot, we need to respect his precious "rights". My bad. Let's all please step aside and allow this uneducated, career criminal illegal immigrant have his rights and 3 squares for the restof his life. Furthermore, let's all please encourage him and his attorneys to sue the state for millions of dollars when it is discovered that his religious sensibilities are offended by the choice of pork chops on the Wednesday dinner menu.

Or, you know, we could just take him to the purina plant, where he could at least feed a hungry dog for a week or so.

[brianbwb-2009]

Has it ever occurred to you that prison mail is monitored, therefore making it strange that the letters were allowed to be sent to the recipients, and not immediately confiscated to preserve a more solid chain of evidence?

So, without the chance that a different scenario might actually emerge, one that, in explaining how the address of the juror was known to the accused, and how the mail, addressed to said juror, passed unnoticed by prison officials, which is a circumstance that might possibly implicate Mr. Condit, or someone else with some "stroke", you are ready to commit a brutal, beyond execution.

Maybe you did it.

[askagain]

brianbwb-2009 - Wow. Are you willing to share whatever it is you are smoking? You can't be serious.

[askagain]

GTR5 - This has been going on for many years. Each successive administration refuses to solve this problem. This is true from President Reagan in the 1980's to the current administration. A question we might ask is what right do we have being in Iraq and Afghanistan when we refuse to solve the immigration problems in America. Our politicians have sold us out. We keep hearing how Hispanics will be the dominant group in America. Why must we change our culture, our laws, or our language for another group of people? We won the war against the Mexicans and gained states such as Texas and California which prospered more than they could under Mexican rule. Or did we just win the battle? The Hispanic illegal immigrants might actually be winning the war.

[askagain]

GTR5 - This has been going on for many years. Each successive administration refuses to solve this problem. This is true from President Reagan in the 1980's to the current administration. A question we might ask is what right do we have being in Iraq and Afghanistan when we refuse to solve the immigration problems in America. Our politicians have sold us out. We keep hearing how Hispanics will be the dominant group in America. Why must we change our culture, our laws, or our language for another group of people? We won the war against the Mexicans and gained states such as Texas and California which prospered more than they could under Mexican rule. Or did we just win the battle? The Hispanic illegal immigrants might actually be winning the war.

[GTR5]

Another illegal that should have been picked up and deported. When illegals are picked up and deported we have less crime. What part of illegal does this administration and congress do not understand?

[ToolMangler1]

Mexico has been shipping excess prisoners over the border for decades. Nothing new here!! All of the administrations are aware of it.