California man who beat elderly woman with bat captured in Oklahoma
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Set us as preferred The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced the capture and extradition of a Southern California man Wednesday, more than two months after he was accused of beating an elderly woman with a bat and fleeing the state.Erik Navarro, 26, was taken into custody in Oklahoma on unrelated traffic charges.Detectives from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Twin Peaks office flew to Oklahoma Monday to bring Navarro back to Southern California, where he is booked with robbery, causing injury to an elder, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery and destruction of a wireless communication device.He is currently being held in the county’s West Valley jail in Rancho Cucamonga while bail has been set at $250,000.
A case has been forwarded to the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office.Local detectives caught a break after Navarro was arrested and incarcerated on traffic charges in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, earlier this month.The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office coordinated his extradition with the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department.
California A Ventura County man was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison after driving into a group of bicyclists, killing a 16-year-old.Navarro had been on the run since around Aug.25, when San Bernardino County deputies responded to a distress call around 6 a.m.
to the Crestline residence of 71-year-old Therese Garcia.Garcia suffered multiple injuries, according to deputies, including a cut to her forehead and eyebrow, swollen hands and an injury around her orbital area that made it hard for her to see.Investigators contend that Navarro assaulted Garcia with a baseball bat.Garcia’s family posted an online campaign that has raised nearly $47,000 as of Thursday morning to help defray the cost of medical bills.I...