A man will spend close to six years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to 2016 crimes that included breaking into a home where he worked as a landscaper, attacking a woman whose bank cards he stole and ramming a pickup into a patrol car.
Jose B. Giron-Padilla, 33, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, attempting to elude police, second-degree identity theft, second-degree possession of stolen property, second-degree robbery and residential burglary.
According to court records, Giron-Padilla, who is listed as transient in court records, blew though a stoplight on Fourth Plain Boulevard Sept. 2, 2016, and accelerated when a Vancouver police officer attempted to stop his pickup. Giron-Padilla led the officer on a chase that reached speeds of 80 mph.
Eventually, Giron-Padilla turned into to a cul-de-sac, turned his truck around and rammed a patrol car on the driver’s side. Giron-Padilla then fled on foot and wasn’t found. No one was hurt badly.
Passengers in the pickup identified Giron-Padilla as the driver, according to court records.
Several days later, Vancouver police responded to a disturbance at a Mexican goods store, La Mexicanita, according to court documents. A woman there said someone had stolen her purse from her car that morning. She saw the thief, but he got away.
The woman later began receiving cell phone notifications about her bank cards being used around Vancouver, and she went to La Mexicanita to see about one of the purchases.
According to court records, she recognized Giron-Padilla at the store. He had her debit card in hand.
When confronted, Giron-Padilla attempted to flee with some clothes he bought. In the struggle that ensued when people tried to stop and restrain him, he pushed and punched the woman, the victim, in the face.
The victim’s other debit and credit cards were found in his wallet, court records said. Giron-Padilla was taken into custody.
Later, investigators found Giron-Padilla’s DNA matched blood samples from a residential burglary in May.
According to court records, a resident on Highland Drive in the Evergreen Highlands neighborhood found a broken basement window and a blood trail.
Giron-Padilla had been working for a landscaping company hired by the resident.
Clark County Superior Court Judge Bernard Veljacic sentenced Giron-Padilla to 70 months in prison.
