Chino Hills man charged with torturing, holding 22-year-old woman captive for months pleads not guilty

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.