LONG BEACH — On Aug. 19, Long Beach Police Department officers arrested 50-year-old Enrique Pina Carrillo of Long Beach in connection with the Aug. 18 murder of 21-year-old Junior Jimenez.
Jimenez was struck with a bottle during brawl then stabbed multiple time with the broken bottle.
The incident took place at about 9 p.m. on the 1100 block of East 10th Street in Long Beach.
Jimenez was taken to a local hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries and died.
Detectives tracked Carrilo down and arrested him in the 800 block of E. Pacific Coast Highway at about 8:19 p.m. Aug. 19.
Detectives are still investigating the motive that started the fight. The preliminary investigation leads detectives to believe Jimenez and Carrillo were associates. Carrillo is being held at the Long Beach Jail on $1 million bail.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call (562) 570-7244 or visit www.lacrimestoppers.org
LOS ANGELES — On the afternoon of Aug.17, Sgt. Robin Petillo set in motion a successful effort to save the life of a man involved in a traffic collision after he was no longer breathing and his heartbeat was undetectable.
Petillo was driving southbound on the 110 Freeway approaching the 405 Freeway when she encountered a five-car collision that had just occurred. Stopping to render aid, she noticed an unconscious male driver who was trapped in his vehicle. Immediately, she requested an ambulance and tried to pry open the door of the badly damaged car. Unable to open the door by herself, she was finally successful with the help of three unidentified people at the scene and was able to approach the injured driver still inside his car.
Unfortunately, she determined he was not breathing and did not have a heartbeat; so she immediately administered chest compressions while waiting for help to arrive. In a short time, three additional officers arrived at the scene and were able to remove the man from his car. They also administered more chest compressions, along with rescue breaths, for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived.
According to the American Heart Association, about 92 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching a hospital.
The driver was rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center where he was revived and underwent a successful emergency surgery, after which he was placed in an intensive care unit. Dr. Rohit Sharma, a physician involved in the surgery, believed the officers’ actions that day literally saved the victim’s life.
LOS ANGELES – On Aug. 24, a Catholic priest was sentenced to six months in federal prison and six months under home confinement for touching a woman’s breast, inner thigh and groin on an overnight cross-country airplane flight.
Marcelo De Jesumaria, 46, formerly of Lake Arrowhead and who currently resides in the high desert community of Valyermo, was sentenced this morning.
De Jesumaria was found guilty in May by a federal jury of abusive sexual contact, a federal felony offense that carries a statutory maximum sentence of two years in prison.
The evidence at trial showed that De Jesumaria was on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Los Angeles on Aug. 17, 2014 when he moved to the last row of the aircraft after asking a flight attendant if he could “sit next to his wife.” De Jesumaria took the middle seat, between a male in the window seat and the victim in the aisle seat. The victim slept through much of the flight, but she was awakened when she felt De Jesumaria’s hand on the top of her left leg near her groin, and then she felt him wrap his arm around her body and grab her breast. For a period of time, De Jesumaria had a tight grip on the woman, but when the grip relaxed, she got up and went to the bathroom. The victim used a call button to summon a flight attendant and reported that De Jesumaria had been touching her inappropriately.
The flight crew reseated De Jesumaria in the front of the plane in a seat between two male passengers, according to the testimony at trial. The captain of the airplane requested law enforcement meet the plane after it landed at Los Angeles International Airport. FBI agents subsequently interviewed De Jesumaria, who admitted that he enjoyed “cozy flights” with women.
The victim spoke at today’s sentencing hearing and described the “fear, frustration and anxiety” that the crime has caused. She said she is reminded of the “ordeal” every day, in part because she must regularly travel on airplanes for her job.
In papers filed in relation to the sentencing, prosecutors wrote that De Jesumaria’s “testimony at trial provided numerous bizarre explanations for his conduct and blamed the victim.” They wrote that De Jesumaria testified that he considered his touching of the victim was “consensual because she did not reject his touches and he interpreted her silence, because she was asleep, as ‘coyness.’”
The case against De Jesumaria was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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