People v. Delgado CA4/3

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Delgado has experience in construction and project management, particularly in prefabricated buildings, and owns a company located in Orange County. Sanctuary Belize, also called the “Reserve,” was a community being built in Belize. Representatives of the Reserve contacted Delgado in 2016 about getting involved in building prefabricated homes for the project.

1 Container homes are prefabricated homes manufactured from shipping containers.

2 All further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code. For the sake of brevity, we will refer to the enhancement as the white collar crime enhancement.

2 The Reserve representatives later gave Delgado’s name and contact information to a Garden Grove couple (Victims 1 and 2), who had purchased a property in the Reserve in late 2016 and desired to build a home on it. Victims 1 and 2 paid Delgado approximately $153,000 by June 2018, but very little progress, if any, was made on the construction. When Victims 1 and 2 confronted Delgado about the lack of progress, he told them the project would cost $1.6 million. Delgado was unable to account for the $153,000 they had already paid to him. Another victim, a…