GUILTY CA - Adrian Rios, 17, slain, body burned, Hemet, 15 Nov 2009

[Tizzle]

Search warrants released in Hemet teen murder

Search warrants released Tuesday show detectives' work early in the investigation searching for two fugitives wanted in connection with the killing of a Hemet 16-year-old, but they provide few new details.

Portions of the search warrants issued in the case were ordered unsealed by the court at the request of The Press-Enterprise, which argued that search warrants should be released as a public record.

The search warrants were released Tuesday after Judge Michael Donner issued an order Monday. The district attorney's office had opposed any release of documents, arguing it would hinder the investigation.

Article and PDFs of redacted search warrants here.

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Teens Accused in Hemet Murder Captured

Posted: March 10, 2010 06:25 PM PST
Updated: March 10, 2010 06:25 PM PST

KESQ.com News Services
HEMET - Police in Hemet announced the arrest of a teenage fugitive suspected in the shooting death of a boy whose body was burned in a bonfire last November.

Jose Manuel Campos and his girlfriend Felicia Sharp, who were both 17 at the time of the murder, were picked up in Mexico and were expected to be brought back to Riverside County Wednesday evening, said Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=12120650

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Hemet police today returned two teenage fugitives wanted in the killing of a 16-year-old boy whose body was found dismembered and burned in a backyard bonfire.

Detectives brought Jose Campos, 18, and his girlfriend, Felicia Sharp, 17, to Hemet to be booked and questioned this evening.

The four-month manhunt took Hemet police on a 258-mile trip to the border town of Mexicali, Mexico, for an extradition hearing where the two teens were turned over by Mexican authorities.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_arrest11.1960fec61.html

 

[Tizzle]

This is great news! Thank you for the update, TG. Every time I thought about this case, I worried that they would never be captured. Little brats aren't as smart as they thought they were. I'm really glad they were captured.

R.I.P. Adrian, Justice is on it's way.

 

[butterfly1978]

I am so glad these two were caught, I was thinking they had ran to Mexico and would never be captured or they would fight extradition and it take 10 years while Adrian's mom had to always wonder.

 

[Tom'sGirl]

*snips

*Hemet police said they learned in the past month from multiple sources that Campos and Sharp may have been in the Mexicali area, south of the U.S. town of El Centro. They were found there about 6 p.m. Tuesday and arrested by Mexican federal authorities, with assistance from the U.S. Marshal Service's Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Taskforce and the Sonora and Baja state attorneys general offices.

*Dana said that while the teens were on the run, they had to have been helped by people providing food and shelter. He said it would be up to the district attorney's office whether to arrest anyone who may have helped them elude authorities.

He did not say where or with whom Campos and Sharp, who are American citizens, had been staying in Mexico.

*In their search for the teenagers, detectives wiretapped a disposable cell phone and placed a GPS tracker on Campos' parents' car, according to affidavits in support of search warrants.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_arrest11.1960fec61.html

 

[butterfly1978]

I am probably way behind but I thought I had read everything about this case. The only thing I have read is that a foot was found, what happened to the rest of his body? Have they found it?

 

[PercyVeer]

Hi Dear Friends, been busy here keeping heads above water...I know you understand how that is.
I AM MAD ! I read this report in our local paper here, it is important to me as I live nearby. I live and work with kids like these. It is a heartbreak and a dilemma.
This forum is such a blessing to me today, the true record of cases is found here.
Though I am glad they caught these two, I am absolutely incensed at the way the case is portrayed in the Riverside Press-Enterprise paper, as shown above, now that the "manhunt" is over.
It was reported by both Tom's Girl in post number 9 SuziQ back at 33 that the police were indeed called on this day. Now the paper flatly states there is no police call at all? What to believe?
Tom's Girl in post 12 showed that LE was interviewing the girlfriend. They let her go.
Tom’s Girl in 64 and October Moon at 102 showed that the parents were arrested and arraigned. They let them go.
Now the paper brags of an international effort and a four-month grind of an investigation?
Then they say they are aware the parents were there when the remains were burning, and helped conceal the killing, but they had let them go earlier, and no mention if they are going to pick them up again?
I am thinking they wanted her to show them the way to her boyfriend, but isn’t 3 birds in the hand worth 1 in the bush?
I hope someone can enlighten me in the ways of LE, I don’t get this one !
Prayers for AR’s family. love to all, p

 

[JoeFromLB]

One of the teens who helped cover up the murder was sentenced to six months in jail...six months!!

He went to get the gasoline that was used to burn Adrian Rios' body.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/hemet/stories/PE_News_Local_D_eteens02.310b6a1.html

http://www.kesq.com/news/24860252/detail.html

This is the first update I've been able to find on the case since the arrests of Campos and Sharp.

 

[Prentiss]

Unbelievable - six months, wtf!!!

Thankyou for the update, really appreciate it.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Testimony from the preliminary hearing last October:

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webcampos.e13cdc.html

October 16, 2010

A Hemet teen shot his friend last year, then went to get hamburgers and gasoline to burn the body, a witness testified Friday.

Jose Campos, 18, is charged with murder in the November shooting of Adrian Rios, 17. Authorities said Campos set Rios' body on fire in his Hemet backyard, dismembered it and disposed of the remains in Canyon Lake.

Campos, who was captured in Mexico with his girlfriend four months after the killing, could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Campos to stand trial for murder:

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/hemet/article_4c30d72e-1d8e-5b42-8606-3f7bfbec0176.html

October 18, 2010

A young man accused of killing a 17-year-old Hemet boy, then dismembering and torching his remains, must stand trial on a first-degree murder charge, a judge ruled Monday.

Jose Manual Campos, 18, also faces gun and great bodily injury allegations in connection with the Nov. 15, 2009, death of Adrian Rios.

Campos, who is being held in lieu of $2 million bail at Southwest Detention Center in French Valley, faces 50 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges.

A preliminary hearing for the defendant ---- to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant a trial ---- began Friday and wrapped up late Monday morning before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Peterson.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Murder trial begins for Jose Campos:

http://www.pe.com/local-news/rivers...teens-trial-opens-in-fire-pit-murder-case.ece

 

[JoeFromLB]

http://www.pe.com/local-news/rivers...irlfriend-testifies-she-remembers-nothing.ece

Campos' girlfriend testifies she remembers nothing, claims "post-traumatic stress disorder".

How convenient!

 

[JoeFromLB]

http://www.pe.com/local-news/rivers...embers-nothing.ece?ssimg=351369#ssStory351371

Sharp said she was diagnosed with PTSD in October 2010 in a Riverside County facility and didn't recognize anyone in the courtroom. She also said she didn’t remember where she was living now or why she was on probation.

Prosecutors played a jail phone call from last month in which Sharp told Campos she loved him. Phone records show they have talked regularly since his arrest, including last week.

Deputy District Attorney Burke Strunsky told her PTSD causes sufferers to have vivid memories of traumatic events.

“Do you realize you picked the wrong illness to fake today?”

Sharp maintained she is suffering from a mental disorder.

At one point Strunsky asked Sharp, “Do you think a 17-year-old shot, burned, cut up into pieces and thrown into a lake would stand out to you?”

“I don't know. I don't remember.”

 

[fran]

HEMET: Teen convicted in bonfire killing

It took a French Valley jury less than one day to find Jose Campos, 19, guilty of the first-degree murder of Adrian Rios.

The verdict was announced during an approximately five-minute session. Jurors also found true the allegation that Campos used a handgun in committing the crime. Campos faces 50 years to life in prison at sentencing set for Dec. 16.

<<<<<<<<<<<< full article at link >>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.pe.com/local-news/rivers...7-hemet-teen-convicted-in-bonfire-killing.ece

 

[mysticrose]

Murrieta Teen Found Guilty of Dismembering, Burning Friend


A young man who gunned down a 17-year-old Hemet boy and then dismembered and torched his remains was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder.

A Murrieta jury deliberated one day before finding Jose Manuel Campos, 19, guilty of the murder count as well as an allegation that a firearm was used in the Nov. 15, 2009, death of Adrian Rios.

The defendant is facing 50 years to life in prison when he's sentenced by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Petersen on Dec. 16.

Campos testified in his own defense earlier this week, adamantly denying that he killed Rios. Testimony concluded Wednesday morning, after which the prosecution and defense submitted closing statements to the jury

http://www.kpsplocal2.com/news/loca...-Guilty-of-Murder/EEsIkmTiAEyy2np3Rulynw.cspx

 

[SuziQ]

Teen given 50-yr sentence for killing, burning friend

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=8470271