At the highest level of Los Angeles, the kidnappers put a pistol on the abdomen and after contacting Facebook Time, they gave him a mobile phone.
Juan, who testified in a preliminary meeting on Tuesday in La County, said he met his neighbor’s face on the screen in February last year.
Juan said he considered a friend of Francesco Perez as a neighbor. He who didn’t know his neighbor had a secret life. Prosecutors in court papers wrote that Perez was a high-level drug dealer and was not related to an unnamed Mexican drug cartel.
Prosecutors accuse him of being abducted, stabbed, shooting and pushing him after Perez ordered him to kill him. But the men who have hired Perez have allowed Juan to escape and witness that he was supposed to be the last moment.
Perez’s lawyer, Jennifer Gitlyn, said he had not seen any evidence that his syllable belonged to a cartel. He confessed to attempting to kill, kidnaps, theft, drug trafficking and conspiracies to commit murder.
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The case against Perez, accused of organizing kidnappings in Tikhouna, is a rare example, authorities say, the radical violence of cartels playing on US soil.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time,” Supreme Court judge Hayden Zaki said at the end of the hearing on Wednesday. “I haven’t seen a case completely like this case. This is a very high behavior and like a cartel.
Juan witnessed that he was guilty of losing a drug shipment. But he hasn’t cut Perez in a contract. In his narrative, he did not even participate in the drug trafficking at all. He began with a normal support.
A Silmar gas station, which prosecutors say Francisco Perez, Juan Bernal and Ramon Terriquez, have kidnapped a man accused of losing a drug shipment. (Eric Tayer / for time)
Juan Perez had introduced him to a friend who had managed the trading department with car paper and fog inspection. Perez wanted to record Honda Akord and had a fog certificate. While working on the car, Juan’s friend found a drunk bag full of drugs and caused fear. He left the Honda on the shore of the road and set an unnamed relationship for the police.
The call was a series of motion events: an interview in a house warehouse for masks and gloves. kidnapping at a gas station in Silmar. Then there was the moment in the mountains when Juan faced his neighbor.
“He told me that I would die,” Juan reminded him of it.
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Juan with a knife fell into a fourth floor court hall in San Fernando and settled on the stand of witnesses. He testified in Spanish and said by installing a fiber optic cable on February 21, 2024, when he stopped buying some Tamal in Silmar.
The Ford Edge car pulled its SuV into a gas station on Roxford Street. As he was waiting for the Tamales, two men were nearby. One of them threw a pistol in his stomach. If he ran away, they would have warned him that they would kill him at the scene.
Prosecutors were playing surveillance videos showing a SUV and black Sidan, a black and white Sedan, pulling into the gas station and blocking the dinner ford. “They looked like a special force group,” Zaki said in his decision.
The two men forcibly put the dinner in the chair of his car. In court, Juan identified the 34-year-old man behind the brakes, a 34-year-old resident of Tikhouna. He confessed to kidnapping, theft, attempting to kill and plotting to kill.
While Bernal was heading towards the mountains, Juan witnessed that men in his back chair were beaten and threatened to kill him. One of them was hitting his stomach. He added that the other took the knife of God’s pocket and stabbed him with a knife.
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Bernal stopped at a horse shepherd. The SUV silver and the black Sidan were followed. He heard men talking about digging a hole. The SUV was opened. Juan said he had seen the shovels and picads.
One of the men took the knife of Juan’s pocket. He cut off the shroud and stuck his blade under his nails. Juan said the men had told him that they would bury half.
At that moment, Juan said, “The car driven was a password, and rotten the horn. The men were afraid and got into the cars. When they were farther away in their car, the man gathered the knife to the right side of Juan on his cheek. It still carries a monument.
The convoy of three cars stopped while participating. Bernal handed over a cell phone. He made the testimony that Perez was.
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The prosecutor general asked Juan to introduce Perez in court. He was hesitant before referring to the courtroom for a man who was beaten by an weather face.
“white beard,” He said.
He met Juan Perez, a Stocky man with a dark curly hair and a beard that walked halfway through his chest, such as “Pakok.
Perez, 62, lived a door in Bell Garden. Juan says Perez was divided between the city in southeastern Los Angeles County and Tikhouna, where his wife lived there, Juan said.
If Perez is part of a drug cartel, such as the prosecutor general who is allegedly trying to lift his bail, he has kept low profiles. In the Bell Garden, at least, he lived in a destroyed apartment; The Honda Akurd and Chevrolet Silverdo drove.
But the deputies of the Los Angeles Sharif Department considered Perez as the main drug dealer. A deputy arrested Perez in the Bell Garden in 2022 and seized a 13-kilogram MIT and 10,000 fake pills. It is unclear why he was not accused of ownership of drugs.
Juan witnessed that he did not know his neighbor who was involved in drug trafficking. Perez was kind to him, saying, “Once he paid him for him when he was low in rent.
“They were against each other but they were not very social,” Juan said. they’re sometimes they roasted meat. Perez came to the celebrations at Juan’s house “Maybe once or twice.
It was in one of the parties that introduced Juan Perez to Walter’s friend. Juan witnessed that he didn’t know Walter’s last name. Walter’s work recorded his DMV cars and checked his fog.
Walter agreed to deal with papers for Perez’s agreement. After receiving his car, he called Juan and was shocked by the discovery of drugs. “I told Walter, ‘Let the car be taken by the police’,” Juan said. “Don’t participate in any problems'”
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The Witer Police Department received an unnamed relationship that would notify them of a car on Santaphy Springs, which contains drugs. The officers looked at him in the Golden Honda Akurd. Two large ziplock bags were on the front chair. It was a bag on the floor board. They seemed filled with metamphiamin. The officers seized the vehicle.
Juan called his neighbor and told what Walter said. Perez angrily said Juan owed money. If he doesn’t pay, Juan reminded him that he warned, “I will take two or three days.
According to Juan, Perez said he wouldn’t just kill him. Perez’s wife fell on the phone and threatened her daughter, and she witnessed. “They said they were going to tear it into pieces and I would eat it,” he reminded him of it.
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In the mountains, Juan said Perez ordered the other men in the car through Facebook Time: “Kill him. Bring his wife and daughter and kill them.
Bernal resumed on the road again. Juan fought for his life. He wrestled with the man who to his righteousness for the gun. His man grabbed him on his left and Juan grabbed his hand. The man whose pistol shot the back of the dinner, then shot two more shootings in his stomach.
Juan witnessed and said, “I was tired. “I said I wouldn’t go anymore. I pretend to be dead,” he closed his eyes and tried not to breathe.
They got to stop. Juan heard about the fire from the men. One of the men said that they should shoot at Juan. Another said, “Leave it as it is. “The F—’s was previously dead.
The men put the Ford in a nursery inside. He also walked in a rock and came to the ground in a brush forest. Juan hurried out and pulled himself through the small cannon of Tujonga.
He said he had spent the next 17 days in surgery and exterior surgery to accumulate the broken intestines, dried blood, lungs and three bullet injuries. His left foot was always injured, he said, and still painful to walk.
Los Angeles police investigations have issued a notice to Volkswagen, a black password used in the kidnapping. They learned that the US-border agents had parked the car on the 5 free road in San Clement at 9:45 am when Juan was kidnapped.
Three men were inside: Bernal, Ramon Terriquez and Alejandro Medina. They have told their agents that they were Mexican citizens in the United States illegally and agreed to be deported immediately. Gillermo de La Riva tested a LAPD theft department.
Before sending the men to Mexico, the agents checked the Terrysis mobile phone. De La Riva said it contained a picture taken in a business the night before the kidnapping. The investigation received surveillance videos from the store. The video shows Tereks buying gloves and has a hooded mask used by painters. According to videos, Bernal and Perez were in the Home Depo depo.
Di La Riva arrested Terriquez, 30, and Bernal in July 2024, and Perez was previously in custody.
Terres claimed police that he had only driven the Volkswagen he used in the kidnapping. “I think they will kidnap Juan, not kill him,” he said.
Bernal also rejected a plot to kill Juan. He said someone had issued a $70,000 contract to raise $200,000, which Juan owes an unknown party.
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After two days of testimony, the lawyers of Perez, Bernal and Terres asked the judge to deny the charges of lack of evidence. The lawyer, who confessed to the crime, said the knife was not in the vehicle where the knife was killed and shot. “Most of Mr. Terriquez has played a passive role in this kidnapping plot,” the lawyer told Zaki.
Deputy Dist. Ati. Jacques Garden said there are signs that the plan is to kill all the time. They bought a mask but they didn’t wear it. Garden said, “Because they knew that food wouldn’t come back and they wouldn’t witness.
There were also SUVs in the tools in the SUV. “You don’t bring shovels for a kidnapping,” Garden said.
Zaki agreed and decided to prosecute the suspects on charges of kidnapping, theft, attempted murder and conspiracy to kill him.
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This story was initially appeared in the Los Angeles Times.