Body found in Riverside County may be missing wife of Marine

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Apr 202012
 

Body found in Riverside County may be missing wife of Marine

Authorities arrest a 27-year-old woman in connection with the disappearance of Brittany Killgore. The body was found near Lake Skinner.

 Los Angeles Times
By Tony Perry

April 18, 2012

 

Body found

Brittany Dawn Killgore, shown in a photo provided by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, was last seen Friday, possibly heading to the Gaslamp District in San Diego. (Associated Press)

 

 

SAN DIEGO —

A body, possibly of a Marine wife missing since Friday, has been found in rural Riverside County near Lake Skinner, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday.

Authorities also have arrested a 27-year-old woman on suspicion of homicide in connection with the disappearance of 22-year-old Brittany Dawn Killgore, Sheriff’s Capt. Duncan Fraser said.

The suspect, Jessica Lynn Lopez, was found Tuesday morning in a San Diego motel after an apparent suicide attempt and was taken to UC San Diego Medical Center, Fraser said. Information leading to the discovery of the body was developed after Lopez was arrested, Fraser said.

Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 45, who was arrested Sunday on a weapons charge, remains under investigation in the disappearance, Fraser said.

Killgore, married to a Marine deployed to Afghanistan, was last seen Friday, possibly heading to the Gaslamp District in San Diego. Her husband, Cory, was granted emergency leave because of his wife’s disappearance and was on his way home from Afghanistan. Brittany Killgore filed for divorce last week, according to court documents.

At a brief news conference, Fraser said he could offer only limited details and would not reveal anything about the relationship, if any, between Perez and Lopez, or about any potential ties to Brittany Killgore. But detectives have said Perez was the last person seen with Killgore.

Perez, part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, is stationed at Camp Pendleton.

The Sheriff’s Department search-and-rescue team scoured the rugged canyon area north of Fallbrook on Sunday and Monday. Killgore lived in an apartment in Fallbrook.

Brittany Killgore’s cellphone was found in the Gaslamp District, a San Diego shopping and entertainment district.

Perez was set to be arraigned Wednesday and was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail. No arraignment has been set for Lopez.

 

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AGAIN…. Rodney King sentenced to house arrest for reckless driving!

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Feb 292012
 

Rodney King sentenced to house arrest for reckless driving

Los Angeles Times
by  Rick Rojas
February 28, 2012

Rodney King in 2008

Photo: Rodney King in 2008.

Credit: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times

 

 

 

 

Rodney King, who became a household name after Los Angeles police severely beat him two decades ago, has been sentenced to 20 days of house arrest and fined $500 for driving recklessly in Moreno Valley, Riverside County prosecutors said Tuesday.

King, 46, was arrested seven months ago on suspicion of drunken driving, but his blood-alcohol level was 0.06, which is under the legal limit of 0.08. He also had trace amounts of marijuana in his system.

He pleaded guilty to a lesser reckless driving charge, officials said. His sentence also includes three years’ probation.

King was beaten in 1991 by four white police officers in an incident that was videotaped by a bystander. The officers were later acquitted, which ignited rioting in Los Angeles.

 

Direct Link:  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/rodney-king-sentenced-house-arrest-reckless-driving.html

 

Temecula Bail Bondsmen Who Allegedly Tasered Mayor’s Daughter, Won’t Be Charged!

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Jan 112012
 

Charges Dropped on Temecula Bail Bondsmen Who Allegedly Tasered Mayor’s Daughter

 

Temecula Patch News

By Toni McAllister

January 6, 2012

 

 

 

Charges of misdemeanor battery and trespassing will not be filed against Fausto Atilano or Bryan Stark.

Two bail bondsmen will not be going to court to defend themselves against accusations that they inflicted battery on the adult daughter of a Wildomar City Councilwoman.

Charges of misdemeanor battery and trespassing will not be filed against Fausto Atilano or Bryan Stark, confirmed John Hall, senior public information spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

Atilano is the owner of Fausto’s Bail Bonds in Temecula.

On the evening of March 28, 2011, then-Wildomar Mayor Marsha Swanson was shaken up and her daughter Jamie Scranton was Tasered after the two bail bondsmen came looking for a young woman they said failed to comply with the terms of her bail bond agreement.

The men showed up at the home of Swanson’s elderly mother, in the 21200 block of Shoemaker Lane in Wildomar. Scranton and her family also lived at the residence, including Scranton’s then-27-year-old son who was an acquaintance of the young woman the bail bondsmen were seeking.

Swanson, who lives nearby and was at the scene, said at the time that the two men barged through her mother’s front door posing as police officers.

Arguing ensued and Swanson said the men used a Taser gun on Scranton, who had to be taken to the hospital for injuries to her stomach.

In response to the allegations, shortly after the incident Atilano released a press statement that read, “I was on a legally authorized bail recovery/bond surrender of a defendant on a felony bail bond.”

Atilano said the defendant, Erica Lynch, had failed to comply with the terms of her bail bond agreement and was “determined to be a flight risk for her court appearance.”

Atilano continued, “As authorized under the laws of the State of California, I contacted Erica Lynch at the residence in Wildomar.”

Atilano said in the statement that he identified himself and stated his purpose, which was to deliver Lynch to authorities for surrender on her bail bond.

“Upon contacting Erica Lynch, identifying myself and stating the purpose of my contact, I was jumped and attacked by at least four people who were also at the residence and a pit bull,” Atilano said. “This attack included the brandishing of a knife, being charged at with a 2×6 piece of lumber, being punched and kicked in the head and body, while I was on the ground.

“Fearing for my life, I defended myself and attempted to escape this attack,” Atilano continued.

Two days after the incident, Hall confirmed that the district attorney’s office was reviewing misdemeanor battery and trespassing charges against the men, and police said the conduct of the bail bondsmen crossed the line.

“We are going to file charges with the D.A.’s office against the bail bondsmen, ” said Lt Mathieu Burden of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

But speaking through email Wednesday night, Hall said he could not comment on why charges against the men were dropped.

 

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