Thread: CA-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT Suspect named in girl's kidnapping (update)

THIS IS APPALLING AS IT GETS. This guy was just announced on KCAL 9 news as an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT!!! They had his DNA which means he had to be arrested on felony charges before and not DEPORTED!!



The Press-Enterprise

Riverside police say a suspect in the kidnapping and assault of a 9-year-old girl has been arrested.

Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, 30, is in custody on $1 million bail and on an immigration hold, according to police. He is accused of attempted murder, kidnapping with injury and aggravated child sexual assault

Police said they believe Guzman may have committed similar crimes in the past and are asking the public's help in that regard.

"This is a particularly brutal crime," said Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz. "Given what we know about sexual predators, we don't believe this was his first time out. … It's altogether possible this individual left the victim for dead."

The girl is recovering at home but does not remember what happened, police said

In January, Guzman rented a room at the Pike Street home from the mother of the 9-year-old girl. He lived there about two months.

Guzman and the girl's mother met after she advertised an a room for rent, police said. The mother said she thought he worked at a factory, police said.

He was unemployed when he was arrested, police said.

Within days after the kidnapping and assault, police identified Guzman as a suspect, they said. DNA evidence confirmed him as the suspect on Monday, police said.

Guzman told police that he has been in the country for eight years.

The girl was taken from her home sometime after 11 p.m. May 7. The abductor entered the apartment through an unsecured window and kidnapped the girl, who was sleeping and home with her siblings. Their mother was working at the time.

The abductor assaulted the little girl before throwing her out of the vehicle he was driving in a residential neighborhood near Challen Park close to Giles Court and Bolton Avenue.

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Illegal Immigrant left Riverside Girl 'for dead,' police chief says

L.A. Times
May 17, 2011

The 30-year-old illegal immigrant arrested this week in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 9-year-old Riverside girl had previously rented a room from the girl's mother, Riverside police said.

Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, 30, of Riverside was arrested Monday.

Guzman had been taken into custody on an immigration violation, authorities said at a news conference Tuesday. He is an illegal immigrant and had been in the country illegally for eight years.

Police said DNA evidence found on the victim matched Guzman.

He has been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault and is being held on $1-million bail, and placed on an immigration hold.

Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said he believes Guzman molested many other children.

Guzman was charged with attempted murder because he had left the girl "for dead," Diaz said.

The victim, who was hospitalized with injuries related to the May 7 abduction, was asleep in her family's second-story apartment when she was abducted. She was dropped off hours later miles from her home in a neighborhood west of the Galleria at Tyler mall in Riverside. She knocked on doors asking for help around 1 a.m.

Her mother was at work at the time, and the oldest sibling was watching the children, police said.

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Man Arrested In Riverside Girl’s Abduction


Updated: Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 1:01 PM PDT
Published : Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 4:48 PM PDT

Reporter:
Al Naipo


Riverside - A 30-year-old illegal immigrant was behind bars today for allegedly abducting a 9-year-old girl from her Riverside home as she slept, sexually assaulting her and trying to kill her before dumping her out of his pickup truck.

"It's altogether possible this individual left the victim for dead -- her injuries were that serious," Riverside police Chief Sergio Diaz told reporters.

Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, a former roommate of the girl's mother, was booked Monday night on suspicion of attempted murder, kidnapping with the intent to rape and aggravated sexual assault on a child.

Guzman was originally questioned May 9, the day after the girl was found, according to Diaz.

"He was uncooperative -- uncooperative to the point of refusing to disclose where he lived," the chief said.

He said the Mexican national was turned over to federal immigration enforcement agents for detention. Police obtained a DNA sample from the suspect, and tests confirmed Monday that it matched DNA collected from the girl and crime scene, according to Diaz.

Guzman is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside. The Riverside County District Attorney's Office is expected to file charges in the case on Thursday, said Deputy District Attorney Michael Carney.

The victim was treated for serious injuries at Parkview Community Hospital. She's recovering at home now.

The 9-year-old, whose identity was not released, was asleep with her older brother and younger sister in a second-story apartment in the area of Pike Street and Herman Drive when she was forcibly taken the night of May 7, police said.

Detective Roberta Hopewell said the child's mother -- a single parent -- was waitressing at Leonardo's Mexican restaurant on Arlington Avenue and had left the boy in charge of watching his sisters.

Guzman allegedly accessed the apartment through an unlocked window in the two-bedroom unit. The other two youngsters were not harmed during the kidnapping, which occurred around 11 p.m.

Around two hours later, people living on Giles Court, adjacent to the La Sierra University campus -- about 2 1/2 miles from where the abduction occurred -- were awakened when the child began knocking on doors, asking for help, according to investigators.

The disoriented girl told officers she had been carried out of her residence by a man and was later pushed out of a car. Hopewell said video footage from security cameras at the scene showed a dark-colored pickup truck in the area around the time of the abduction. Guzman owns a black Ford F-150 small-size truck.

Hopewell said the suspect was a person of interest from the beginning because of his contact with the victim, her siblings and their mother, from whom he rented a room between early January and late February.

"This was a particularly brutal crime," Diaz told reporters. "I would be surprised, given what we know about sexual predators, that this was his first time out."

Anyone with information about the kidnapping or Guzman was urged to call Hopewell at (951) 353-7124.

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08:47 AM PDT on Friday, May 20, 2011

By LESLIE PARRILLA
The Press-Enterprise

PDF: Read the search warrants. WARNING TO READERS: The following search warrants contain graphic information that some people might find disturbing.

Search warrants made public Thursday showed the brutality of the attack on a 9-year-old Riverside girl kidnapped from her bed this month and provided missing details on the chain of events that led police to their suspect.

The girl, who was dumped in a residential area of south Riverside after the assault, had been choked, leaving her with a fractured bone in her throat and hemorrhaging around her neck. Her injuries were so severe that she had to undergo emergency surgery to repair damage from the sexual attack, according to the warrants.

The man suspected of hurting her, Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, 30, was arrested Monday after DNA evidence taken from the girl was matched to his. Guzman refused to give a DNA sample during an initial interview with police, but he requested water, and a detective confiscated the cup after he drank from it.

The search warrants also outline how the assailant scouted the apartment building where the girl and her siblings were sleeping.

And the warrants show that Guzman called the girl's mother several times shortly before the kidnapping. His caller ID was blocked, so the mother, who was at work, might not have known who was calling her.

Riverside police Detective Roberta Hopewell, the lead investigator in the case, declined to comment Thursday on the details of warrants.

Guzman was charged Thursday with attempted murder, two counts of aggravated child sexual assault and kidnapping with injury. Enhancements were added that could increase the length of his sentence.

They include kidnapping, which carries a life sentence without parole; committing a sex offense in the course of a burglary; inflicting great bodily injury in the commission of the offense; and committing a sex offense on a kidnap victim. Police also are investigating Guzman in connection with several sexual-type crimes that occurred in Riverside in 2008.

He appeared in court Thursday for a scheduled arraignment wearing a red jumpsuit, signifying that he is being held in isolation. The arraignment was postponed until June 2 so the court can assign him an attorney.

He is being held at Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside. Bail has been set at $1 million. There also is an immigration hold on Guzman, who is in the country illegally, meaning he will likely be deported if he is released.

Suspicious man

Around 8:30 p.m. May 7, the night the girl was taken, a neighbor reported seeing a man fitting Guzman's description in the courtyard near the girl's apartment. The man was acting so suspiciously that the neighbor grabbed a baseball bat but returned to find the man gone.

Phone records showed Guzman had called the girl's mother four times on the day of the abduction, at 1:20 p.m., twice at 10:09 p.m. and at 10:40 p.m. and blocked his number using *67, according to the warrants.

Police said they did not know why he was calling the mother.

That same night a surveillance camera at the girl's apartment in the 11000 block of Pike Street showed a person who appeared to be a man in the courtyard of the girl's apartment complex, which is in Riverside's La Sierra district.

The person left and then returned at 11:07 p.m. and climbed the stairs to the girl's second-story apartment. Police said the girl was sleeping in her bedroom with her 12-year-old brother and 3-year-old sister, who were also sleeping nearby. The brother was baby-sitting while the mother worked a night shift as a waitress, police have said.

About 11:40 p.m., the surveillance camera captured the man coming down the same stairs.

"(He) appears to be carrying someone or something over his shoulder," the warrant said.

The girl remembers, "A man had picked her up out of her bed and took her away," according to the warrant.

She told police she kept falling asleep and remembers being strangled and said the man "made her tongue and throat hurt."

She did not recall any other details of the incident except that she was in a car, and the man had big hands and the same color skin as her.

About an hour later, a surveillance camera in the neighborhood where she was dumped caught a dark-colored pickup truck driving up Bolton Avenue and then returning a minute later with the headlights off.

The next thing the girl recalls is that the man "carried her out of the car and threw her on the grass," according to the warrant.

A few minutes later, the girl is seen running across Bolton and knocking on doors, the warrant said.

The girl said she ran to several houses for help until she found a woman parking her car in the driveway. Another woman called 911.

Police arrived in the Bolton Avenue neighborhood around 12:40 a.m. May 8. The girl was wearing a shirt and underwear and no shoes, the warrant said.

Emergency surgery

"Her face was swollen. She had red marks around her throat and she appeared disoriented," according to the warrant, which also said she had spots around her neck, face, ears and eyes from hemorrhaging.

She was taken to Riverside's Parkview Hospital and then transferred to Loma Linda University Medical Center where she underwent emergency reconstructive surgery because of severe tearing and lacerations to her vaginal area, uterine walls and rectum, the warrant said.

"The doctors treating her told me the loss of memory or lack of memory could be due to strangulation," Hopewell said in the warrants.

When detectives returned to her home the night of the abduction, they found that her siblings were still asleep and the apartment door and bedroom window were open, according to the warrant.

Police called the mother, who returned home.

She told police that Guzman had rented a room from her from January to late February.

On May 9, two Riverside police sergeants spotted the truck near a Riverside restaurant and detained Guzman. He agreed to come to the police station and be interviewed, the warrants said.

He refused to give investigators his current address and gave them an incorrect phone number. He also refused to give them DNA.

He had asked for water when he first arrived for the interview.

"I collected the Styrofoam cup that he had been drinking from," Detective Hopewell wrote in the warrant. "When I did this, Guzman asked Officer Macias in Spanish why I took his cup.

"Guzman then said in Spanish, 'Damn it. And I asked for the water.' "

The DNA led to his arrest Monday after tests showed it matched material found on the girl's body, according to the warrants.

Police on Wednesday searched his home in the 4400 block of Jupiter Drive and seized four pairs of little girl's underwear, including one pair the warrants described as "matching a pair missing from the victim."

Hopewell declined to clarify whether the underwear belonged to Guzman's 5-year-old daughter who sometimes stayed with him. It is also unclear whether the girl was wearing underwear or shorts when she was found.

Detectives also collected women's jewelry and a make-up compact, shoes, bedding, a computer and storage devices, cell phones and paperwork, the warrant shows.

In a second search warrant allowing investigators to search Guzman's phone, police found sexual photos of women. A third search warrant showed police searched Guzman's truck and his person for DNA.

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Riverside: Man accused of abducting, raping girl faces more charges

By City News Service, on June 2nd, 2011


An illegal immigrant accused of kidnapping his ex-roommate’s 9-year-old daughter from her Riverside home, then sexually assaulting her and trying to kill her, pleaded not guilty Thursday to multiple felonies — including new allegations that he assaulted two other children.


Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, 30, of Riverside was arrested May 16 in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 9-year-old Riverside girl.

Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, 30, could face life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of attempted murder, kidnapping for rape, two counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and a sentence-enhancing allegation of inflicting great bodily injury on a child under 14 years old during a felony.

The charges stem from a May 7 abduction in Riverside. Since Guzman’s arrest on May 16, police have been investigating whether he might be responsible for similar crimes in the area.

According to Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Mike Carney, detectives located two girls allegedly attacked by the defendant in the fall of 2008.

None of the victims’ identities have been released. One girl, who was 12 at the time, alleged Guzman held her at gunpoint and molested her, Carney said. The other girl, who was 11, told detectives the defendant choked her and sexually assaulted her, according to the prosecutor.

He said DNA and fingerprint evidence connected Guzman to both crimes, as well as the most recent one.

The Mexican national has been additionally charged with two counts of burglary and one count each of aggravated sexual assault on a child and forced lewd acts on a child under 14.

Guzman appeared today before Superior Court Judge Robert Law, who set a felony settlement conference in the case for June 27. The defendant is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside.

According to Riverside police, in the most recent case, Guzman was familiar with the victim after having rented a room from her mother in January and February.

The 9-year-old, whose identity was not released, was asleep with her older brother and younger sister in a second-story apartment in the area of Pike Street and Herman Drive when she was forcibly taken the night of May 7, investigators said.

According to Detective Roberta Hopewell, the child’s mother — a single parent — was working as a server at Leonardo’s Mexican restaurant on Arlington Avenue and had left the boy in charge of watching his sisters.

Guzman allegedly accessed the apartment through an unlocked window in the two-bedroom unit. The other youngsters were not harmed during the kidnapping, which occurred around 11 p.m.

Around two hours later, people living on Giles Court — about 2 ½ miles from where the abduction occurred — were awakened when the child began knocking on doors, asking for help, according to investigators.

The disoriented girl told officers she had been carried out of her residence by a man and was later pushed out of a car. Hopewell said videotape from security cameras at the scene showed a dark-colored pickup truck in the area around the time of the abduction. Guzman owned a black Ford F-150 pickup.

Hopewell said the suspect was a person of interest from the beginning because of his contact with the victim, her siblings and their mother. The girl was seriously injured in the attack and is now recovering at home.

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By ALICIA ROBINSON
April 16, 2017 at 12:00 pm

While a few cities around the country have agreements that their police will work with federal immigration officials, a handful of others have formally declared their opposition to such cooperation.

But for most communities, how and when local policing and immigration enforcement should intersect is not always a clear-cut matter.

In February, Inland activists urged Riverside’s City Council to declare the community a “sanctuary city” and decline to use city resources to enforce immigration law.

The council was reluctant to do so, and Police Chief Sergio Diaz has said that while his department doesn’t routinely work with immigration authorities, he believes a blanket refusal to cooperate in any situation is bad policy.

A 2011 Riverside case that resulted in a life sentence for a child rapist shows one situation in which cooperating with immigration agents helped local police take a criminal off the streets.

On May 7 of that year, a 9-year-old girl was asleep in the bedroom of her Riverside apartment when “she was woken up by someone taking her out the window,” said Riverside police Detective Rita Cobb, who worked on the case.

The man put the girl in a truck, drove her to his home and physically and sexually assaulted her before leaving her in the grass near a park about five miles from her home, police said at the time.

Bleeding and dazed, the girl began knocking on doors for help about 1 a.m. She was only able to give police a vague description of the rapist, but a resident’s security camera near where she was dropped off had caught an image of the man’s dark truck, Cobb said.

The girl had been sleeping in a room with two siblings, and police learned their mother had formerly rented a room to Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman, who drove a dark truck.

“It just seemed really odd that it would be a random person” who didn’t know anything about the family or who might be in the bedroom, Cobb said.

Police were looking for Guzman as a “person of interest” when two officers stopped in a restaurant a block from the police station to pick up lunch. They spotted Guzman’s truck in the parking lot.

When brought in for questioning, Guzman was evasive and uncooperative and didn’t express any dismay about what had happened to the girl, even though he knew her, Cobb said.

After determining Guzman was in the U.S. illegally, Cobb said, she contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which put an immigration hold on him.

The girl couldn’t positively identify her attacker, and without any DNA, the evidence “was very circumstantial but not enough to make an arrest with,” Cobb said.

While Guzman was in federal custody, police took a cup that he drank from to get a DNA sample. Once they learned it matched samples from the victim, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office issued an arrest warrant.

Authorities ultimately connected Guzman to two similar molestation cases, and in February 2013 he was convicted of five felonies and sentenced to life in prison without parole, according to court records and news reports.

The Riverside case was certainly any parent’s nightmare, Cobb said, but it was also frustrating for law enforcement.

“You believe you have a suspect but you’re waiting for evidence to support your suspicions,” she said.

If not for the immigration hold and sped-up processing of the DNA test, Cobb said, Guzman might have been deported and Riverside police might never have found him.

While some might argue that the U.S. should deport any undocumented immigrants who commit crimes here, Diaz, the police chief, disagreed in Guzman’s case.

“How are we safer if that guy is one short hop away from Riverside or some other community in the United States?” he said.

And it’s important for the 9-year-old victim to know her attacker is in prison, Cobb said, adding that otherwise, “her fear is, he’s out there, he’s going to come back and get me.”

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