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A Maryland father criticizes Baltimore prosecutors, who he says are behind rising youth crime in the area.
Santiago Garcia-Diaz says his son Bryce, 15, has been arrested multiple times for carjacking and theft in both Baltimore and Washington, DC, and he hoped the law would back him up when it came to teaching Bryce a lesson.
He says that not only have they failed to help control his son, they have only made the situation worse by doing nothing.
“He started breaking into cars to steal cigarettes and chains, then you steal cars and run from the police,” the concerned father told one of them. Outlet in Baltimore. ‘He won’t live anymore, I’m afraid of that. It’s getting worse.’
Santiago Garcia-Diaz Says His 15-Year-Old Son Bryce Constantly Smokes Marijuana And Steals Cars
Concerned dad spoke to a local Baltimore news outlet to share his concerns about law enforcement’s inaction when it comes to his son’s out-of-control behavior
The father says his son is out of control and prosecutors in the area are not helping because his son has been repeatedly let off the job.
Santiago shared his son’s arrest report from earlier this year with Fox45 in Maryland.
The documents he gave to the outlet revealed that Bryce, just 15 years old, had been arrested along with a friend for stealing two cars and high speed chasing.
Bryce and his friend stole a Lexus and a Honda CRV, then led police officers through busy streets.
Santiago says his child nearly killed two police officers who tried to stop him during that incident.
“They tried to barricade my son inside. Someone tried to stop and he took the gas and tried to drive right through them, knocked them out of his shoes,” he said.
Not only does Santiago claim that the law enforcement officers are not helping him by teaching his son a lesson, but they have threatened to charge him for neglect and neglect for failing to show up to pick up his child.
After the high-speed chase with the police, Santiago claims that the police told him he had three hours to get to the station or else he would be arrested.
The father says his son has dropped 18 charges and only one conspiracy charge remains, resulting in probation that he repeatedly shattered the terms of
“I don’t know what to do anymore,” he said. “I’ve watched boot camps and I just can’t afford it.”
Santiago says he was threatened when he tried to teach his son a lesson.
He is a father who believes that his son must be punished in order to be saved.
“I want my son to get help. I mean, if it’s the prison that’s needed; then prison. What my son needs, he needs mental help.’
Santiago says he now faces fines for restitution for his son’s crimes that are taking a heavy financial toll on his family. He also set up a GoFundMe page in response.
The Garcia-Diaz family lives in Baltimore, which has recorded more than 600 cases of carjacking in 2022 alone
The father says he has petitions signed by judges in the area so that Bryce can be admitted for a psychological evaluation.
However, the petitions came to nothing, as hospitals would not accept him without a file, Santiago claims.
After one incident, Bryce was reportedly sentenced to six months’ probation.
His father says he violated every condition of his probation “the first day”.
“Nothing ever happened,” he said.
15-year-old Bryce has had several clashes with the law in Baltimore, pictured above, and also in Washington, DC
According to a GoFundMe set up by Baltimore’s father, Bryce is one of three children and has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, hyperattention deficit disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder.
“I have three beautiful children that I would lie down and die for, but I have one son and I have tried everything to help him myself,” the father said.
The incidents started increasing about two and a half years ago, he says. Before that, Bryce had only minor problems with ‘stealing’ and ‘sneaking away’.
Now he has been arrested more than five times, has carjacked people and is constantly smoking marijuana and ‘taking pills’. Santiago says it has become a problem for their entire family.
There were 51 carjackings and 203 robberies in the first month of 2022. Those numbers have since risen to 533 and 2,400 . respectively
Santiago says Bryce’s story perfectly sums up the problems with the criminal justice system in Baltimore right now.
He believes things like Bryce’s are the cause of an increase in juvenile delinquency.
“This isn’t even about my son, this is about the Baltimore City kids, this is about all juvenile delinquents,” he said.
In all the incidents, Santiago says a total of 18 charges against Bryce have been dropped and the only one left was the one who ended up on probation.
Baltimore’s crime stats remain high with more than 330 homicides in 2021
Santiago claims that Bryce crashed a stolen vehicle through a house and hit a police officer with the car.
That arrest came with an officer charge assault and battery that was also withdrawn. Bryce was charged once with conspiracy, which is a felony.
The father says he tried to write to the mayor and the governor and they helped him by setting up a GPS tracking device, but he’s already cut it off once.
Santiago says he feels like he’s run out of ideas and he just doesn’t know what to do at the moment.
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“I’m so scared my son won’t live to be 18,” he said.
Santiago says he is terrified that his child will die in a car chase involving the police or that he could kill someone in a car chase.
He also says he has now been sued for damages Bryce caused during one of his “outings.”
Santiago has been “advised to seek legal advice because he believes the owner of the house Bryce was hit by during an incident and the owner of the stolen vehicle he was driving may want to sue.
The GoFundMe should help cover legal fees and any refunds he may have to pay.
“Please say a prayer for me and please say a very special prayer for my son,” Santiago wrote. “Our entire family would be lost if something happened to make him disappear from this planet.”
Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby said in 2021 that ‘the era of ‘hard crime’ is over’
In 2021, Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that she will make permanent a policy that went into effect during the pandemic to stop prosecuting drug possession, prostitution and nonviolent crimes.
“The era of ‘hard on crime’ is over,” she said in an interview with the… Washington Postinstead vow to redirect offenders into programs to fight addiction and mental disorders.
According to the City of Baltimoremore than 25,000 crimes have been reported this year alone.
With two months to go into 2022, there have been more than 4,600 aggravated assaults, 533 carjackings, 2,400 robberies and 603 shootings.
As of October 30, there were also 278 murders in the city.