Los Angeles, Ca
Chino Hills man charged with torturing, holding 22-year-old woman captive for months pleads not guilty
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A Chino Hills man charged with kidnapping, torturing and raping a girl he held captive at his residence for six months has pleaded not responsible to the costs, officers stated Tuesday.
The suspect, 59-year-old Peter McGuire, is due again in court docket on June 16 at Rancho Cucamonga Superior Court docket, based on the San Bernardino County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
The allegations got here to mild on the night of June 9, when a 22-year-old girl escaped from the person’s home alongside the 16200 block of Cordovan Court docket, based on San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division.
The visibly injured girl went to the close by Alterra Park, the place she was noticed by bystanders who alerted regulation enforcement.
The girl informed deputies that she had been held towards her will for months on the residence, the place she was tortured, bodily assaulted and raped, Sheriff’s Division officers stated.
Officers stated the younger girl had moved in with McGuire originally of the 12 months.
“Shortly after shifting in, the sufferer was not allowed to depart and was forcibly held towards her will by McGuire,” Sheriff’s Division spokeswoman Mara Rodriguez stated.
After talking with the lady, deputies from the Chino Hills Police Division went to the house to serve a search warrant and located that McGuire had already fled the scene, based on the authorities.
On Saturday, the San Bernardino County sheriff’s SWAT staff discovered him in a house in Placentia in Orange County. He was finally taken into custody after a protracted standoff.
The San Bernardino County District Lawyer’s Workplace has filed a number of expenses towards McGuire, together with torture, kidnapping, kidnapping to commit one other crime, mayhem, assault with a lethal weapon, false imprisonment by violence, forcible rape, sodomy by use of pressure and forcible oral copulation.
The DA has additionally filed particular allegations of non-public infliction of nice bodily harm, administering a managed substance throughout fee of a intercourse crime, and infliction of nice bodily harm throughout a intercourse offense.
He’s presently being held with out bail.
Neighbors informed KTLA that they had no clue what was occurring in the home and described a chaotic scene as regulation enforcement descended on the neighborhood over the weekend.
“We heard flash bangs … the entire storage door, they tore it down. It was on the bottom. They usually’d gone by the home,” neighbor Victor Gee stated.
No additional particulars have been instantly out there. Anybody with info is urged to contact the Chino Hills Station 909-364-2000. Those that want to stay nameless are urged to name the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78-27463.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Incarcerated Los Angeles man allegedly killed by 3 other inmates in prison
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Three prison inmates are accused of attacking and killing a 24-year-old Los Angeles man at Kern Valley State Prison last month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Officials say three inmates allegedly attacked Dwight Gibbs, a 24-year-old incarcerated man, at about 8:06 p.m. on June 28. Prison employees quickly broke up the attack, but Gibbs was treated for his injuries and transported to a local hospital, where he died about one hour later.
Gibbs was serving a 41 year sentence for attempted second-degree murder as a second striker with enhancements of inflicting great bodily injury and use of a firearm. He was incarcerated at Kern Valley in January 2023.
Three men — 55-year-old Michael Brown, 63-year-old Jerry Dunham and 61-year-old Rex Dickey — were each placed in restricted housing. Their fates will await completion of a homicide investigation.
Officers found three prison-made weapons at the scene of the attack.
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Brown was convicted on first-degree murder charges in 1997. Both Dunham and Dickey have been convicted for assault as inmates.
There was no immediate word on a possible motive.
Los Angeles, Ca
Juvenile shot in neck, chest at Ventura County park
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A juvenile was shot multiple times while hanging around a neighborhood park in Simi Valley during the early morning hours Monday.
The shooting was reported shortly before 2:30 a.m. at Frontier Park located at 2165 Elizondo St.
Arriving officers found the minor, described only as a male, with a gunshot wound to his chest and another to his trachea, the Simi Valley Police Department stated in a news release.
The minor was taken to a local trauma center to undergo surgery, the Police Department stated.
Investigators believe the victim was involved in a confrontation between two groups when someone pulled out a gun and shot him.
Several people wearing dark-colored hoodie sweatshirts were seen running from the park after the shooting, police said.
The small community park is equipped with a children’s playground and access to the Arroyo Simi Bike Patch.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting was asked to call the Police Department at 805-583-6950.
Los Angeles, Ca
Residents of popular Southern California city on edge amid wave of violence
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After a wave of violent incidents in Santa Monica, residents and city officials are expressing some serious concerns, with the city’s mayor asking for emergency funds, more police and state assistance.
“There’s beautiful things about the city, but we’re losing it,” Christina Tullock, who lives on the Santa Monica-Venice border, said.
Tullock told KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff that she regularly sees one violent attack after another and believes the issues causing the problems are mental health and drug related.
“You can have as much enforcement as possible, but the cops can’t do anything until something happens,” she explained. “What I’d like is to see something preemptively happen, which is help people who are sick, help people who are on drugs.”
Still, as crowds flock to the Santa Monica Pier ahead of next weekend’s Fourth of July holiday, the city has been home to a string of violent attacks since the first of the year.
Just this weekend, five men were arrested after a giant brawl broke out on the beach, leaving one person stabbed and another with a broken ankle. Both victims were hospitalized.
Earlier in the week, 32-year-old Jawann Dwayne Garnett, who police say is homeless, was arrested after violent attacks on three female beachgoers. He has since been charged with attempted rape and attempted murder.
On June 11, a 26-year-old man at Jameson’s Pub on Main Street in Santa Monica punched and killed the bar’s manager after he was one of several patrons asked to leave the establishment.
Late in May, a 39-year-old man believed to be homeless was arrested after reportedly attacking a 73-year-old woman, leaving her with minor injuries. Bystanders also said the suspect had been seen trying to punch others in the area.
Almost a week and a half before that attack, 29-year-old Larry Ameyal Cedeno was arrested after what appears to be a entirely unprovoked assault near Parking Structure 7 in the 1500 block of 4th Street that left two people hospitalized with stab wounds, one who was listed in critical but stable condition.
On May 16, a Venice resident who was jogging in the 2000 block of Ocean Front Walk in Santa Monica was violently dragged by the hair and pulled toward the restrooms. Police said 48-year-old Malcolm Ward, a parolee, intended to sexually assault the victim.
He was arrested and has since been charged with attempted kidnapping and assault with the intent to commit rape.
Some people who frequent Santa Monica, like Howard Zickefose, said it’s confusing and disconcerting to be out and about in the city and then suddenly caught up in a swarm of police activity.
“We were having a wonderful time, returning from shopping at Trader Joes in the middle of the day yesterday and we were swarmed by police,” he said of Saturday’s beach brawl. “They were driving in every direction and there were helicopters flying.”
Santa Monica resident Elizabeth Brown cautioned tourists in the area to stay aware of what and who is around them while visiting.
“If you live in a really safe environment and you come here, you just need to be a little more acutely aware of your surroundings,” she explained.
Santa Monica Mayor Phil Brock says the issues facing Santa Monica are happening across Los Angeles.
“Some of the same crime patterns, some of the same theft, some of the same behavior comes from unhinged homeless people who are on drugs or mentally ill,” he said. “It [also] comes from people who cross the border and say, ‘Hey, Santa Monica is lucrative, let’s make some of our money here.’”
Brock’s plan is to saturate business and residential areas with police officers in order to stop crimes before they happen, but said he needs funding to do that. He adds that he also needs help from the court system, the district attorney’s office and the state of California.
According to the mayor, though, the city council rejected his proposal to take a few million dollars from the city’s budget for emergency security use through the summer. That additional funding, he said, could go toward increasing patrols in the area and hopefully alleviate the concerns of people, like Matt Gotzka, on the boardwalk.
“You don’t want to hear about attempted stabbings and violence toward people on the beach,” Gotzka told KTLA. “You’re here trying to have a good time.”
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