#554 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Pablo Velez

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of July 14, 2004, 19 year-old Adrian Payan and 18 year-old Emerson Bojorquez were ambushed at a nightclub in Houston, TX. A man named Jason Wooley fired the first shot of the shootout, and a man waited outside in a Cadillac, wearing a blue shirt and firing shots from an assault rifle. Bojorquez was killed, but Payan survived. Witnesses noted the Cadillac’s license plate number and police traced it to Pablo Velez, Jr. Velez had a solid alibi, but an eyewitness apparently identified him in a photo lineup. As a result, Velez was convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

To learn more and get involved:

https://www.facebook.com/JusticeforPabloVelezJr/
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
P. O. Box 13401
Austin, Texas 78711-3401
E-mail: [email protected]
https://www.lw.com/

To get involved in helping exonerees like Pablo Velez rebuild their lives after release:

www.after-innocence.org

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0:00.0	At 2 a.m. on July 15, 2004, a Houston pool hall emptied into its parking lot along with a young man named Jason Woolley.
0:10.6	And 19-year-old Adrian Pyon was waiting outside to settle a score.
0:16.2	But Pyon and two friends only brought fists to a gunfight.
0:21.6	Jason Woolley began to fire, as did two others who emerged near a gold Cadillac.
0:27.6	Payon was wounded, while 17-year-old Emerson Boyarchas was fatally shot.
0:33.6	Woolley and the other two assailants sped away in the Cadillac, while witnesses jotted down
0:39.4	the plate number, which led to the name on the registration, 23-year-old Pablo Veles, a trucker
0:46.3	whose hobby of fixing up and reselling cars ultimately earned him 30 to life. This is wrongful
0:53.3	conviction.
1:06.4	The Fox Foundation is proud to support this episode of wrongful conviction and the work of after innocents, a nonprofit that helps hundreds of people nationwide rebuild their lives
1:11.4	after wrongful incarceration. Each year, innocent people are released after spending years behind bars
1:17.9	for crimes they didn't commit. Nearly all of them leave prison with nothing more than the clothes
1:23.0	on their backs, with no help or compensation from the state as they face the steep challenges of rebuilding their
1:29.1	lives after wrongful imprisonment. After Innocence is changing that. After Innocence helps exoneries
1:36.1	get and make good use of essential services like health care, dental care, mental health support,
1:42.3	legal aid, financial counseling, and more.
1:45.4	Since 2016, they've brought that help to more than 800 exoneries across 46 states,
1:52.4	working tirelessly to ensure that no one released after wrongful incarceration is left behind.
1:58.3	Learn more at after-innocence.org and join After Innocence to support exoneries as they rebuild their lives.
2:15.9	I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco.
2:17.7	Welcome back to Wrongful Conviction, where we have a story out of Houston, Texas, in which
2:22.8	our guest's only crime was selling a car to an actual criminal.
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