FUGITIVE'S GODFATHER ARRESTED IN COLO.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer The godfather of fugitive Jesse James Hollywood Jesse James Hollywood (born January 28, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a drug dealer and fugitive. He allegedly kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz. has been arrested in Colorado on allegations that he harbored the 20-year-old, who is suspected of killing a West Hills teen-ager, police said Thursday. Richard Joseph Richard Joseph (23 April1953 - 4 March 2007) was a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day. Dispenza, 47, a Woodland Park, Colo., high school coach, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of harboring a fugitive, a felony. Hollywood is one of five suspects police say they have tied to the kidnapping and fatal shooting of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz on the evening of Aug. 8 in the Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet. . Authorities said Markowitz was kidnapped because his 22-year-old halrother, Benjamin Markowitz, owed Hollywood $36,000 for a past drug deal. Benjamin Markowitz is apparently in hiding Adv. 1. in hiding - quietly in concealment; "he lay doggo" doggo, out of sight , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. Sheriff's Lt. Mike Burridge. ``We have heard from other witnesses he owed other people besides Jesse James Hollywood money,'' the officer said. After the shooting, Hollywood fled, authorities said. Dispenza told investigators that Hollywood stayed in his home in Woodland Park, Colo., on Aug. 16 but left the next day, and he didn't know where he had gone, said Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo., police Lt. Skip Arms. Upon further investigation, authorities learned that Dispenza had checked Hollywood into a Ramada ra·ma·da n. Southwestern U.S. 1. a. An open or semienclosed shelter roofed with brush or branches, designed especially to provide shade. b. An open porch or breezeway. 2. Inn in Colorado Springs from Aug. 17 through Aug. 20, Arms said. Dispenza signed for the room but told the clerk it was for someone else, later identified as Hollywood, police said. Dispenza became close with Hollywood's family when they lived in the Colorado Springs area in the mid-1990s, and he coached Hollywood in youth sports, Arms said. Hollywood is the last outstanding suspect in the Markowitz slaying. The other four are expected to be arraigned today on charges that include kidnapping, criminal conspiracy and murder. They are: William Skidmore, 20, of Simi Valley; Jesse Taylor Rugge, 20, of Santa Barbara; Graham Pressley, 17, of Goleta; and Ryan Jesse Hoyt, 21, of West Hills. Police said the slaying occurred when Hollywood, Rugge and Skidmore couldn't find Benjamin Markowitz but saw his younger halrother. They kidnapped him and took him to Rugge's home in Santa Barbara, police said. Two days later, Hoyt, Rugge and Pressley took Markowitz to the forest site, where he was forced to lie down in a shallow grave and shot nine times. Authorities said Hollywood fled the West Valley area and drove to Las Vegas for a night, then drove to Colorado Springs. |
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