MAN CHARGED WITH DEMANDING CASH NOT TO HURT FAMILY.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer A Ventura man was arraigned Monday on federal charges of mailing a threat to a grandson of Fritz Huntsinger that family members would be harmed unless $500,000 was paid, FBI officials said Monday. Robert Carl Robert Carl (b.1954) received his musical training at Yale, Penn, and the University of Chicago. He also studied in Paris during 1980-1 as a Lurcy Fellow at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure and the Sorbonne. Johnson, 50, was arraigned before a federal magistrate in 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. on charges of mailing a threatening communication. Johnson was arrested Friday night after allegedly picking up a bag of money left by Oxnard residents Eric and Valerie Huntsinger, relatives of the oil-drilling equipment manufacturer who founded the Ventura Tool Co. in the 1920s. On Tuesday, they received the letter, marked ``confidential,'' demanding they pay the money to avoid harm to their four children, their brothers, sisters and their parents. 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. an FBI affidavit affidavit Written statement made voluntarily, confirmed by the oath or affirmation of the party making it, and signed before an officer empowered to administer such oaths. filed in the case, the letter showed the writer had detailed knowledge about the family, including the children's ages. ``Your refusal to comply with this demand will result in serious retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and of a permanent nature,'' the letter stated. The writer demanded $500,000 in unmarked bills no larger than $100 each and instructed the couple to place the money in a pillowcase pil·low·case n. A removable covering for a pillow. Also called pillowslip. pillowcase or pillowslip Noun a removable washable cover for a pillow Noun 1. and four black trash bags. Eric Huntsinger was ordered to take the bag to Olivas Park Drive near Palm Street late Friday night and leave it at a site that would be marked. Although the letter warned dire consequences if the couple involved police, the FBI and Oxnard police were notified and conducted surveillance. Authorities said they saw Johnson post a sign marking the spot where the money was to be dropped. Soon after Huntsinger left the bag, Johnson returned to the site, picked it up and quickly left the scene, according to the FBI. Authorities followed Johnson's car, then stopped it and arrested him. The money and the sign were found during a search of the car, investigators said. They said Johnson's wife, Linda Rubiales Johnson, was once employed by the Huntsingers as a housekeeper HOUSEKEEPER. One who occupies a house. 2. A person who occupies every room in the house, under a lease, except one, which is reserved for his landlord, who pays all the taxes, is not a housekeeper. 1 Chit. Rep. 502. . Officials said Johnson told them nobody else was involved in the crime he is accused of committing. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion