Nixon Jose Azuaje Perez is 19 years old. Nixon volunteered on the weekends picking up trash and cleaning up his neighborhood with the local neighborhood improvement organization.

The New York post called him a “gang banger.”

The real story: Nixon lived in an apartment complex with alot of crime and shootings. One night, bullet casings landed on his doorstep.

In the UNITED STATES, the police WILL NOT ARREST YOU if your neighbors are shooting at each other and bullet casings fall on your doorstep. Therefore, if you are innocent, you leave the bullet casings alone because the police will need them as evidence.

In VENEZUELA, the police WILL ARREST YOU if your neighbors are shooting at each other and bullet casings fall on your doorstep. Therefore, if you are innocent, you have to move the bullet casings. Because, the police find the bullet casings in front of your door, they will assume you are involved in the shooting, and arrest you.

Therefore, Nixon did what any innocent bystander would do in Venezuela, he moved the bullet casings from in front of his door.

Here in the US it is considered “tapering with the evidence.” And he was arrested.

When the judge was presented with the evidence at his bond hearing (including a video of Nixon moving the bullet casings), the judge believed that Nixon was probably innocent of being involved in the shooting. Therefore, he gave Nixon a very low bond ($1,500) and released him with an ankle monitor.

Nixon had paperwork which gave him the legal right to be in the US while his case was being reviewed. However, because he did not want to stay in detention while waiting for his hearing, he agreed to deportation and was waiting to be sent back to Venezuela

He has no tattoos because it is not part of his Christian faith

He was living in Auroro, Colorado and working as a baker and baby-sitting for his friends while they were at work.