Carlos Montes is a retired Xerox salesman and activist arrested in a midnight raid in 2012 for possessing guns in violation of a state law prohibiting convicted felons from owning them. Believe it or not, his felony conviction was for an assault conviction in 1969 for throwing a soda can that did not strike its target.

That his prosecution is politically ideologically motivated is probable. Montes was a major figure in a Sixties Era group called the Brown Berets, a Hispanic equivalent of the Black Panthers.

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• Carlos Montes: Political Activist Faces 22 Years in Jail Over Thrown Soda Can Paul Harris. The Guardian. May 30, 2012.

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