Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies have booked two separate individuals on separate murder charges at the station jail this week, but there’s been no change in the local homicide rate, according to officials.
The first person was a Palmdale woman who was wanted for questioning in connection with a parking lot shooting that happened in the Antelope Valley, according to Lt. Michael Modica of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau.
The woman was arrested Aug. 28 and released that same day, with the code for her release listed as 49B1, for the Penal Code section that states there was insufficient grounds for a criminal complaint.
She has not been charged with a crime, according to L.A. County Superior Court records.
The second person, Jorge Avelar, is a 26-year-old unemployed Bakersfield man arrested by Santa Clarita Valley patrol deputies Wednesday, according to Sheriff’s Department arrest records.
Avelar was ordered into custody without bail Thursday in the shooting death of Maximo Daniel Sanchez in Pomona.
He has been sought for the arrest since a Pomona Police Department officer swore an arrest warrant June 10.
Station officials Thursday did not indicate how Santa Clarita Valley deputies came into contact with Avelar.
