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Antonio Quintana

Released
Date of birth:c. 1953
Age:73
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1970s
State:Colorado
Support
Chicano Liberation
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Biography

Antonio Quintana was a 22-year-old member of the Denver Chicano-movement organization Crusade for Justice. The Black Panther reported that he was arrested with Juan Haro on September 17, 1975 and falsely charged with conspiring to bomb several Denver police stations, in what the paper called a sensationalized set-up built on the testimony of the agent provocateur José Cordova Jr., timed to coincide with a national police-chiefs meeting in Denver. Their conspiracy trial was set to begin January 12, 1977.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to bomb Denver police stations.
Arrested: Sep 17, 1975
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: Awaiting a conspiracy trial set for January 12, 1977 as a co-defendant of Juan Haro. Charges as recorded: Conspiracy to bomb Denver police stations — a frame-up, per the paper and the Crusade for Justice, engineered through the agent provocateur José Cordova Jr.
Convicted: No — pending trial