Posted on 11/18/2022 9:01:08 AM PST by bitt
A 22-year-old Diamond Bar man was released Thursday night after he had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of peace officers in a crash that injured 25 recruits on a training run Wednesday in South Whittier.
Jail records show that Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez was released at 9:49 p.m. and that his initial arrest Wednesday has been deemed a detention. The records cite California Penal Code 849(b)(1), which authorizes police to release arrestees from custody without first being arraigned if there are insufficient grounds to make a criminal complaint.
Investigators are continuing to develop the case against Gutierrez but are not legally allowed to hold a suspect in custody for more than 48 hours without presenting the case to prosecutors, said Sgt. Gerardo Magos, an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson.
Once investigators have built a case, they plan to arrest Gutierrez and present the case to the L.A. County district attorney’s office, Magos said.
“The evidence is there,” he said. “We just want to make sure it’s properly presented.”
Earlier Thursday, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in an interview with NewsNation that investigators “have developed probable cause to believe it was intentional.”
“They went through an exhaustive interview process with everyone involved, with the video surveillance, the statements from the recruits, the physical evidence they have and what they got from the suspect himself, and they were able to form the opinion this was a deliberate act,” he told the news station.
Villanueva later confirmed to The Times there was probable cause to arrest the driver on suspicion of attempted murder because of evidence he deliberately ran into the recruits. But the sheriff did not provide further details, and his department has not yet presented the department’s case to the district attorney.
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strangely, the driver’s parents are both in law enforcement, it was reported
Quite often the parents occupation IS THE REASON the kid does stuff like this.
> Once investigators have built a case, they plan to arrest Gutierrez and present the case to the L.A. County district attorney’s office, Magos said. <
Well, that’s nice. I wonder how deep into Mexico Mr. Gutierrez is by now.
When he kills again, will the judge be held to account?
BizarroWorld.
SPJNK.
The driver’s surname indicates likely Hispanic heritage therefore he can’t be held. It isn’t his fault that he drove the wrong way down a wide open street and ran into a whole platoon of people. Society and the way that society oppresses brown people caused this. Let the driver go and arrest some white guy from Alabama for the crime because that’s the only way we can ever have justice in this nation!
The judgement God levies on this nation for our insanity is going to make what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah look like a day at the park.
No judge involved, police decision based on following in the article:
“California Penal Code 849(b)(1), which authorizes police to release arrestees from custody without first being arraigned”
” are not legally allowed to hold a suspect in custody for more than 48 hours without presenting the case to prosecutors”
Because they couldn’t get the evidence within 48 hours they released him to allow them to finish building the case and not run afoul of the requirements - which could have gotten him off on a technicality if they violated them.
Now they can finish what they need to present the prosecutor with the evidence and pick him back up for arraignment.
It sounded like an accident to me.
A bunch of people running down the middle of a dark thoroughfare before dawn?
Does that sound like a smart thing to do?
No. Not as long as he kills peons and serfs. If he starts killing the Elites, all bets are off.
Open season?
He is clearly a danger to the community and a flight risk. They should take him to Sacramento so he can run over all those politicians and maybe they will change the laws.
I dont get why they released him, unless they wished to give him time to ‘get lost’.
If he ever does get rounded up and sent to trial like Darrel Brooks, don’t send him to that same judge; Jennifer Dorow. In my opinion, Judge Dorow is too softhearted and too easily intimidated by rowdy defendant behavior.
It was early but it wasn’t dark and they were running in formation on the right-side of the road. You do not know any correct facts yet you judge the situation? Obviously you have not bothered to watch any of the video of the incident
He was arrested but the Soros-funded DA, Gascon, let the perp out of custody
It’s not as if you’ve “judged the situation” or anything.
Likely that around 50-75 % of the recruits were Latino. From the videos, This was an intentional act of attempted mass murder
Have you seen the video. Never mind, it is obvious that you haven’t. The middle of a dark street before dawn? Wrong, Wrong and wrong.It takes practice to be wrong 3 times in 2 seconds. Well done.
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