A latimes.com website account from May 11, 2009 reported that Belinda Magana, 23 and Naresh Narine, 36 were detained by Corona police after authorities found the missing 2 year old toddler’s body in San Bernardino County. The boy’s mother had reported that the toddler had been abducted. She was then was arrested, suspected of having a connection with the death of the boy. Rene Tarkington, Corona police spokeswoman, reported that the mother was booked on suspicion of child abuse and being an accessory to murder in San Bernardino. Narine, the boyfriend, was booked on suspicion of murder, torture and child abuse causing injury or death.

The boy was last seen on Sunday evening while attending a family gathering in Celebration of Mother’s Day at Lincoln Park in Corona. Immediately after the boy was reported missing, neighborhood fliers, and air and ground searches came up with nothing. Investigators then turned their attention to the mother and the boyfriend.

Mark Johnson, Corona Police Lt., said, “Early on in the investigation, things weren’t adding up.” The toddler’s body was found about 35 miles north buried in the Lytle Creek area.

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The website hbindependent.com reported in an account on April 9, 2009 that Fountain Valley police were able to make Mary Katheryn Sharpski, 46 confess during a police interview to conspiracy in a plot to murder her husband with a machete. Mary Sharpski’s lover and tenant, Michael Calvin Shores II, 39, and Antonio Cinco Ortega, 23, of Santa Ana are also being charged with plotting to kill Frank Sharpski.

According to authorities, Mary Sharpski revealed her husband’s daily routes and offered to pay Ortega, who owns a personal knife collection, for the murder. Ortega was employed as a meat clerk at Stater Bros. in Huntington Beach.

Prosecutors stated that Shores was a tenant in the Sharpski’s home for a year, and both he and Mary Sharpski intended to live together with her three children “as a family”, after her husband had been eliminated.

The attack took place in March, 2008 when Ortega attacked Frank Sharpski outside his apartment in the 17300 block of Euclid Street. Ortega sliced him with a machete and is accused of “fracturing the victim’s skull, severing a thumb and fingers, partly severing his nose, causing several machete wounds, and leaving him to die.”

Authorities allege that Ortega left forensic evidence at the scene of the crime, which assisted officers with their investigation. All three cohorts are charged with attempted murder,conspiracy to commit a crime and mayhem, including a sentencing enhancement for great bodily injury; and an additional enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon for Ortega.

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The website abcnews.com reported in a story on April 12, 2009 that Melissa Huckaby, 28, a Sunday school teacher, had been arrested for the California murder of Sandra Cantu, an 8 year old girl from Tracy, California. Cantu was a playmate of Huckaby’s daughter. Cantu’s body was found inside a suitcase in a dairy farm pond. Authorities arrested Huckaby after she admitted to police that she owned the suitcase in which Cantu’s body was found.

Tony Sheneman of the Tracy police department said, “I couldn’t begin to even theorize what her motive is. The outcome is is beyond explanation.”

Cantu’s mother Maria Chavez, 41 asked her sister Angie Chavez, “How could another mother do this to another child?”

Huckaby gave an interview to the Tracy Press, and stated that she did own a large, black, rolling suitcase but it had been stolen that day Cantu disappeared.

Sheneman stated that Huckaby was questioned and was first “calm, cool, and collected,” then “became very emotional, then was calm again and then became resigned to what was happening.” Police did not disclose how Cantu was killed.

Mary Jones, who claimed to have known Huckaby since she was a little girl and in disbelief of the charges said, “That would shock me greatly, if it were true. That’s not the Melissa I know. It doesn’t fit in with her or the family at all. The family is basically Baptist, totally churchgoing folks.”

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According to reports, on April 12, 2009 two unidentified men, one appearing to be in his mid fifties and the second appearing to be in his mid twenties, were shot. Lt. Paul Vernon, head of detective for the LAPD’s Central Police Division said, “The motive for the shooting is not clear. And, while this may have happened on Skid Row, the crime had nothing to do with the homeless. These types of disputes tend to be about drugs and money.”

According to police reports, they received a call around 5 a.m. of shots fired at the Lamp Lodge, located at 630 S. Stanford Street. Upon arrival paramedics pronounced both men dead. The two murders in Los Angeles are the first in downtown for 2009.

Vernon said, “Twenty years ago we would have seen scores of these killings in a year. But last year closed with only six homicides.”

Police records show that almost 6,000 Los Angeles drug crime narcotics arrests were made in downtown for year 2008, mostly on Skid Row.

Vernon added, “We find far fewer guns downtown now that the criminal element has found it’s harder to work here. That’s made Skid Row safer for everyone.”

Police urge anyone with information to call Central Area Detectives at 213 842-0727.

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The website burbankleader.com reported in an account on April 12, 2009 that Bella Stepanyan, 26 was in Pasadena Superior Court where she pled not guilty to the slaying of Jasmine Voskanian, 49. According to authorities, Voskanian was killed with gun shot to the head when she answered the door bell or knock to her front door. Jane Robinson, Los Angeles County district attorney’s office spokeswoman, said that Stepanyan faces one count of murder in Los Angeles with a special allegation of lying in wait.

Authorities claim that Stepanyan plotted the murder and that Armen Mangasaryan, 29 was the actual shooter, and the third suspect apprehended Arrpiar Terrgalstanyan, 20 was present when murder took place. Both men were arrested the same week of the murder and have also pled not guilty. The three suspects are believed to have known Voskanian because of an overdue money debt.

Voskanian’s boyfriend was inside the home when the murder happened and he immediately called paramedics but they were unable to resuscitate her and she was pronounced dead at the house.

All three suspects could face life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty if found guilty.

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