WRONG TEEN CHARGED IN BEATING OF KITTENS; OFFICIALS: SUSPECT COULDN'T HAVE BEATEN BOX OF KITTENS.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer Eric Lopez offered the perfect alibi Monday to a heinous hei·nous adj. Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime. [Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from crime. And Glendale police admitted they were wrong in arresting him last week on suspicion of beating four kittens and killing one of them. ``The witness identified the wrong person. We arrested that person,'' said Sgt. Rick Young, pledging to see that the 18-year-old would be released this morning. The Glendale teen was accused of beating a box of 7-week-old kittens with a 4-foot-long pole. But he could not have committed the crime because he was in jail when a witness told authorities she saw three youths brutalize bru·tal·ize tr.v. bru·tal·ized, bru·tal·iz·ing, bru·tal·iz·es 1. To make cruel, harsh, or unfeeling. 2. To treat cruelly or harshly. the animals, said Lopez's attorney, Madeline Chang. 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. County Jail officials told the Daily News that Lopez was being held in county jail from July 13 to July 20 on suspicion of three vandalism charges. The kittens were beaten July 15, a witness told police. Deputy District Attorney Lonnie Felker said he would investigate the claim. ``If I can confirm he was in jail, I'll see that he's released. I'll check on this first thing Tuesday,'' Felker said. Felker found out just before Lopez's arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted that it appeared the teen was in custody July 15, he said. He said he could not look into it until today and needed to confer with Verb 1. confer with - get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision" consult ask, enquire, inquire - inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" the case's lead investigator, who was off work. Lopez's mother, Silvia, said her son should be freed immediately. ``They got the wrong Eric. They're just picking on him because he hangs out with the wrong crowd,'' she said. Eric Lopez pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to one felony count of animal cruelty through Chang, his court-appointed attorney. Outside court, Chang said, ``It wasn't him.'' She said she would bring paperwork to court to prove that at Lopez's bail-reduction hearing Friday. He is being held on $100,000 bail. Although Commissioner Daniel Calabro set Friday as the teen-ager's next court date, Felker and police said developments mandate they re-examine re·ex·am·ine also re-ex·am·ine tr.v. re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing, re·ex·am·ines 1. To examine again or anew; review. 2. Law To question (a witness) again after cross-examination. the case before then. Lopez and a 17-year-old Glendale boy were arrested Thursday after a 15-year-old girl identified them from photographs as two of the three teen-agers she saw beating a box of kittens. The girl, who was walking to summer school about 10 a.m., said she heard a child screaming and animals shrieking in the 1300 block of East Harvard Street, a police report says. She said she saw three teen-agers laughing and taking turns hitting the box of four kittens, the report says. As the little girl screamed, ``Stop killing my kitties!'' one of the animals fell through the box, the report says. The witness said the child scooped up the kitten's lifeless body and ran down the street crying. Police still are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the girl and the deceased kitten kitten newborn or young cat or ferret. kitten mortality complex a general term applied to a syndrome involving death of young kittens, particularly in breeding establishments. , Young said. Young said he was baffled why Lopez's mother didn't say anything to police about her son being in jail. ``If we had that information, obviously we wouldn't have held the kid,'' he said. The witness, who took the three remaining kittens to Glendale High School Glendale High School can refer to:
After hearing descriptions of the teen-agers, Shine showed the girl an assortment of pictures, and the girl identified Lopez and the 17-year-old boy as the kittens' attackers. An official with the juvenile bureau of the District Attorney's Office would not say whether the 17-year-old has been charged. ``This is ridiculous,'' Sylvia Lopez Sylvia Lopez (1931 - November 20, 1959) was a European model and actor. Born Tatjana Bernt, in Austria, she was raised in Paris, France where she began a career in modelling. said. ``This isn't justice. He is wrongly accused, and I want the city to answer for this.'' |
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