Detective Julio Sanchez

Julio Sanchez
First appearance	Pilot episode
Created by	James Duff
Portrayed by	Raymond Cruz
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Gender	Male
Occupation	LAPD Detective
Family	Ramona Sanchez (mother) Oscar Sanchez (brother, deceased) Maria Sanchez (wife, deceased)

Detective II Julio Sanchez is a fictional character featured in TNT's The Closer, portrayed by Raymond Cruz. Julio is a Detective on the Los Angeles Police Department's Major Crimes Division.

Fluent in both Spanish and English, Sanchez is an expert on Latino gangs. He has a quick temper and often yells at suspects in the interrogation room. He also can be crude and chauvinistic. Though constantly flirting with the younger women detectives, Sanchez wears a wedding band. He has one brother who is dead and another in prison after getting involved with gangs.

It seems at first that he is married, but in Brenda and Fritz's wedding video (season 4 episode "Double Blind"), he reveals that he has been a widower for six years.

In season four episode "Sudden Death", Julio Sanchez's brother is shot to death by a gang member on the sidewalk near his home because he was believed to be part of a rival gang. Once the case is closed, Julio confesses to Provenza that he had given his brother the hat that the killers mistook for a symbol of a rival gang affiliation, which led to Sanchez's brother's death. Later in the season ("Time Bomb"), Sanchez is shot three times by bullets intended for Provenza. Sanchez survives, after five surgeries and shoulder reconstruction, and is back on the force via Chief Johnson's recommendation in that season's "Good Faith".

Julio Sanchez continues as a main/regular character on Major Crimes.

Having previously been shot in an episode of The Closer (see section above), Sanchez was shot again in "Two Options".

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