JAIL INMATE CHARGED WITH TAKING A HOSTAGE.Byline: Laurence Darmiento Daily News Staff Writer A county jail inmate was charged Thursday with holding a civilian kitchen employee hostage at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center A detention center or a detention centre is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean:
In an incident that took place last month, Elisandro Rojo was charged with taking a hostage and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. . He pleaded not guilty, and a July 25 preliminary hearing was scheduled in Newhall Municipal Court. Rojo, 36, who was awaiting trial on burglary charges, is accused of grabbing a knife from a fellow inmate while making sandwiches June 26 in a kitchen at the jail complex. He then grabbed a female employee, put the knife to her throat and demanded to be set free so he could return home to his wife, said Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Ulfig. ``He was definitely over the edge,'' Ulfig said. ``All he kept saying was `I want to go home,' `I want to go home.' '' Another jail inmate attempted to convince Rojo to drop the knife, as did other deputies, but the man only drew it closer to the women's neck when people came close, Ulfig said. Rojo did not drop the knife until a quick-witted deputy pretended pre·tend·ed adj. 1. Not genuine or sincere; feigned: a pretended interest in the proceedings. 2. Supposed; alleged: the pretended heir to the throne. to call Rojo's wife over his radio and a dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. played along. The woman, who was held about 10 minutes, was not hurt, Ulfig said. In a search of Rojo's bunk bunk, bunker large storage bin. bunk forage forage, usually ensilage stored in a large storage bunk and made available to cattle or other livestock along a face of the storage. , investigators found a letter the inmate had penned to his wife in which he described how he couldn't take jail life much longer and was desperate to return home, Ulfig said. Arrested April 12 by Downey police on suspicion of residential burglary, Rojo had been made a trusty at the jail and sent to work in the kitchen, but was not allowed to handle knives. Instead he had been making the sandwiches from pre-cut bread with a spatula spatula /spat·u·la/ (spach´u-lah) [L.] 1. a wide, flat, blunt, usually flexible instrument of little thickness, used for spreading material on a smooth surface. 2. a spatulate structure. . After the incident, he was transferred to the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . Rojo, who faces up to nine years in prison on the new charges, also still faces the burglary charges. |
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