SUSPECT IN 13-YEAR-OLD STABBING CASE FOUND LABORER SPENT SIX MONTHS IN STATE PRISON BEFORE BEING BROUGHT BACK TO LOS ANGELES.Byline: RICK COCA Staff Writer RESEDA -- More than 13 years after the Christmas stabbing of a day laborer day labor n. Labor hired and paid by the day. day laborer n. Noun 1. , a paroled felon An individual who commits a crime of a serious nature, such as Burglary or murder. A person who commits a felony. felon n. a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. who's used "15 different names in 15 different arrests" is in custody and charged with the murder. Felipe Villalba, 34, is accused of killing 30-year-old Jose Lopez and attempting to kill Jorge Alcala, 31, and Jose Ojeda, 32, when the day laborers were drinking in the wee hours of Christmas day 1993 at a Reseda apartment. Villalba's luck ran out in December when he was picked up in Bakersfield on suspicion of public drunkenness and officials found out he had several warrants for his arrest. Due to a bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu slip-up, Villalba was sent to a state prison in Wasco, northwest of Bakersfield, where he spent six months before being sent to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to face the murder and attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. charges. Villalba remains in custody in lieu of more than $2 million bail. His next court date is Thursday at the Van Nuys Superior Court. Back in 1993, Villalba and the three other men were at the apartment of a mutual friend in the 6600 block of Etiwanda Avenue when an argument broke out between Villalba and Lopez, police said. "Alcala noticed that (Villalba) had a knife," said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Detective Joel Price, adding he tried to stop
Villalba from stabbing Lopez and was himself cut in the arm.
Villalba then fatally stabbed Lopez several times in the chest, Price said. When Ojeda came to the two injured men's rescue, Villalba stabbed him several times. Following the stabbings police say Villalba, identified initially only by his nickname, "Moreno," took off on foot and disappeared. Once Villalba was identified, police issued a warrant for his arrest in January 1994. But the diminutive di·min·u·tive adj. 1. Extremely small in size; tiny. See Synonyms at small. 2. Grammar Of or being a suffix that indicates smallness or, by semantic extension, qualities such as youth, familiarity, affection, or man, himself a day laborer who frequented worker pickup sites in Reseda, Northridge and Woodland Hills, proved elusive. "He's used 15 different names in 15 different arrests," said retired LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Rick Swanston after the killing in 1993. A few weeks before the stabbings, Villalba had been released from prison on parole but was already a suspect in other crimes, including stealing beer from a Reseda 7-Eleven store, police said. Police said Villalba has had a troubled history with alcohol. "Apparently, he has a few drinks and he goes crazy," Swanston said in 1993. In December, it got him into trouble again. Villalba was picked up by Bakersfield Police officers on suspicion of being drunk in public Drunk in Public is the first CD released by comedian Ron White. It features many of his act from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with the addition of profanity. It was released on 2003-11-03 on the Hip-O Records label. Track listing All tracks written by White. . Officers took him to the Kern County Sheriff's Receiving Facility, where they were prepared to let Villalba sober up Verb 1. sober up - become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up" sober become, get, go - enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; . But when officials ran a routine check on him, they discovered Villalba's criminal record. "He was identified through fingerprints," said Sgt. Ed Komin of the Kern County Sheriff's Department. "And the rest of his legal troubles from Los Angeles County came up." For unknown reasons, Los Angeles detectives said they weren't alerted that Villalba was being held in Bakersfield in December. Since he was wanted on a parole warrant as well, parole officials picked up Villalba from the Kern County Sheriff's facility and took him to Wasco State Prison within a day of his arrest, Komin said. "Why Wasco got him before L.A. (and the more serious murder charge) doesn't make a lot of sense to me," Komin said. Apparently, Villalba spent about six months in state prison before being sent to Los Angeles to face the more serious charges against him. rick.coca(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3329 |
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