Ramirez

I. BACKGROUND

Ramirez lived in the home of Teresa Valenzuela (“Teresa”), Teresa’s mother, Dolores Valenzuela (“Dolores”), and Teresa’s father and brother, on the Tohono O’Odham Indian Reservation (“Reservation”) in Arizona. On April 17, UNITED STATES v. RAMIREZ 10233 2004, the Valenzuela family discovered that Ramirez had been using Dolores’s debit card to steal money from her bank account. The Valenzuela family immediately asked Ramirez to leave the home.

During the course of the week following Ramirez’s depar- ture from the Valenzuela home, Ramirez telephoned Teresa multiple times per day. One evening, Ramirez entered the Valenzuela home (using a house key he had been given) and Teresa’s bedroom as she slept. Dolores, upset by the incident, purchased new locks for the home. The new locks, however, were not the correct size and were never installed.

On April 23, 2004, Dolores and Teresa went to the bank and discovered nearly $1,000 in recent unauthorized with- drawals from Dolores’s account. As a result, Dolores filed a fraud report with her bank. While Teresa and Dolores were in the bank reporting the fraud, Ramirez again telephoned Teresa. Teresa told…