http://ocregister.com/ocr/2005/08/19/sections/news/news/article_641036.php
Defendant in case of missing Newport yacht owners faces new trouble.
By LARRY WELBORN
The Orange County Register
NEWPORT BEACH – A former child actor and ex-Marine, already accused of murdering a couple to steal their yacht, was charged Thursday with killing an Anaheim man while on a work furlough from the Seal Beach jail.
Skylar Julius Deleon is accused of killing Jon Peter Jarvi, 45, on Dec. 26, 2003.
The charge, filed late Thursday in the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, alleges that Deleon and an accomplice committed the murder for financial gain, which could result in the death penalty.
Michael W. Lewis Jr., Deleon's cousin was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home in Oatman, Ariz., accused of being an accomplice.
And Deleon's wife, Jennifer Henderson-Deleon, was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact. She is also a defendant in the presumed deaths on the yacht.
At the time of Jarvi's killing, Deleon spent his nights in the Seal Beach jail while serving a one-year term for burglary, but was allowed out during the day on a work furlough authorized by Orange County Superior Court Judge Roger Robbins.
While serving his burglary sentence, Deleon befriended Jarvi, a pilot who also made custom jewelry and was serving a four-month federal sentence for counterfeiting, said Orange County Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy.
Within days of his release from jail in December 2003, Jarvi had refinanced his Tustin condominium and pawned his van, producing $50,000 in cash, Murphy added.
On Dec. 26, 2003, while he was supposed to be working, Deleon paid $18,000 in cash to a Costa Mesa boat-repair yard to refit his 26-foot Sea Ray cabin cruiser, deposited about $21,000 in cash in a bank account, and paid $2,200 for a diamond ring from a Long Beach jeweler for his wife, according to police reports. Deleon is suspected of driving Jarvi to Mexico under the pretense of completing an easy-money business deal the next day.
Jarvi, who celebrated his 45th birthday a day earlier, died from loss of blood after his throat was slit. His body was found near the Mexican highway that leads to the Tecate border checkpoint.
Deleon's trail to Mexico on the day Jarvi died was traced by his cell-phone calls, police said. Deleon made several calls to his wife along the way, both before and after Jarvi was killed, according to police reports. The calls pinged off several transponders along the way, allowing detectives to track his route to and from Mexico.
Deleon returned late to the Seal Beach jail on the night Jarvi was killed, but was allowed in without incident by a civilian jailer hired by a private company that runs the "pay to serve" program, Murphy said.
That jailer, Alonso A. Machain, 25, of Pico Rivera, is a co-defendant with Deleon and several others in what authorities say was the kidnapping and murder of Thomas Hawks, 57, and his wife, Jackie, 47, in November.
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