Thread: Valley Village, CA. slaying suspect captured in Mexico

Valley Village slaying suspect captured in Mexico

October 12, 2010 | 6:06 pm

A 34-year-old parolee charged in absentia by Los Angeles County prosecutors with fatally stabbing a Valley Village woman during a burglary and setting fire to her home was apprehended Tuesday in Mexico, authorities said.

Omar Armando Loera was arrested in Mexicali by Mexican authorities working with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Los Angeles Police Department, according to multiple sources familiar with the case. But LAPD detectives have yet to officially identify him.

Loera was charged last month with one count each of murder, burglary, arson and assault with a deadly weapon in the July 24 slaying of Cheree Osmanhodzic, 34, whose wedding was to have been in late September.

Prosecutors also charged the parolee with the special circumstances of murder during a burglary and arson, which could make him eligible for the death penalty.

Shortly after Loera was charged, LAPD officers were called to Fryman Canyon after reported sightings of a man who fit Leora's description. For more than six hours, LAPD officers in helicopters, on horseback and in off-road vehicles combed the rugged hills and hiking trails for the suspect but he did not turn up.

Loera was identified as the suspect in the July slaying after DNA and other unspecified evidence found at the scene provided the needed break in the case.

He had gained early release from state prison in February after serving 23 months of a 32-month sentence in connection with a 2008 armed robbery.

In July, police said he broke into one of the triplex units where Osmanhodzic lived with her fiance and killed the woman. That day, Osamhodzic had been shopping for a wedding dress with her mother and fiance, Adam Culvey.

Culvey told police he returned to the couple's home after running errands, put his key in the door and began to push it open. He felt resistance.

Moments later, he confronted a stranger, who ran out and sprinted down the block. Culvey said he chased the intruder then walked back to his residence to find that it was on fire. Inside, firefighters discovered Osmanhodzic, dead on the bedroom floor from multiple stab wounds.

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Omar Armando Loera was arrested in Mexicali by Mexican authorities working with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Los Angeles Police Department

Oh look they have no problem getting and giving him back to us no problem at all.. And yet no David Hartley.

Originally Posted by ExCaliGal

Omar Armando Loera was arrested in Mexicali by Mexican authorities working with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Los Angeles Police Department

Mexicali. just over the border from calexico.

Oh look they have no problem getting and giving him back to us no problem at all.. And yet no David Hartley.

i hate to say this, but i have a feeling hartley will never be found.
i say this because in the Rusty Fleming Movie "Drug Wars: Silver or Lead"
he had footage of 55 gallon barrels that were filled with acid and one cartel has two lions to feed.

Need i say more?

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Originally Posted by ExCaliGal

Omar Armando Loera was arrested in Mexicali by Mexican authorities working with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Los Angeles Police Department

Mexicali. just over the border from calexico.

Oh look they have no problem getting and giving him back to us no problem at all.. And yet no David Hartley. :cry:

i hate to say this, but i have a feeling hartley will never be found.
i say this because in the Rusty Fleming Movie "Drug Wars: Silver or Lead"
he had footage of 55 gallon barrels that were filled with acid and one cartel has two lions to feed.

Need i say more?

Or they weighted the body down and it's on the bottom of the lake.

Is there any place in mexico that isn't crime ridden?

The Lions and the acid is something I wish I didn't know...Now I have a image that wont go away....How is it that Mexico let it get this bad?

Originally Posted by ExCaliGal

Is there any place in mexico that isn't crime ridden?

The Lions and the acid is something I wish I didn't know...Now I have a image that wont go away....How is it that Mexico let it get this bad?

It got that way because in 1968 some students & civilians were demostrating against the gov't because they wanted real democracy. The police and protesters got into a confrontation and guns were used. (Prior to 1968 people were allowed to have guns just like in the states) After 1968 the Mexican gov't passed laws and made it impossible for civilians to have firearms and started confiscating them. Now only criminals have guns and the law abiding people are left without firearms for defense, while few people are allowed to legally own guns they are restricted to calibers .380 and .38 and below and the weapons need to stay at your house. The hurdles to obtain these guns are so high that most Mexicans don't qualify. Most of the time the police and the criminals are the same!

That is what happens when only criminals have firearms and a gov't has stripped a law abiding citizen the right to posses arms. People in Mexico a 100 years ago had greater access to weapons and were in a better position to defend themselves against bandidos, the modern day equivalent would be the narcos. While there are untold numbers of Mexicans who would probably like to pick up a fire and kill some narcos, without weapons they cannot do jack S***!