A man with a troubled past was arrested for suspicion of murder after a body was found in a house where he had held the Swat deputies at a distance for several hours.
The deputies took the Pope of Malcolm, 26, in detention with the threat of a firearm outside a house in North Citrus Avenue. The withdrawal video shows that the Pope emerges from the house with a vintage -style soldier helmet. Attached around his neck like a cape was a flag bearing what looks like an iron cross.
According to the lieutenant-homicide of the Sheriff Juan Márquez, the deputies went to the home of Vista Central around 10 am on Wednesday to make a wellness check. The deputies arrived to find a dead woman “with obvious signs of trauma” and a man barricaded in a room.
The members of the Swat team and the negotiators were called to the scene around 11 a.m. and spent the next hours trying to negotiate with the man, said Lieutenant of Sheriff Sean Gallagher.
Images captured by onscene.tv show Swat deputies using a beaded armored vehicle to approach the home property line. The K-9 units of sheriff and other technologies were also on the scene.
Towards the end of the impasse, the deputies in the images are seen moving on the side of the house with their drawn canons. At the same time, a man who confirmed the authorities was that Pope left the front door, holding what seems to be a mobile phone and a kind of printed image.
He follows the orders to descend on the ground and is then invaded by the deputies. Authorities said they had the Pope in detention before 5.30 p.m.
The prison files indicate that Pope was taken into custody suspected of murder and detained without deposit. Friday, it should be brought to justice before the Superior Court of Vista.
Authorities did not release the name of the woman and the medical examiner’s office sealed the case.
Few details on Wednesday’s deadly meeting were published. But the judicial archives indicate previous problems for the Pope, including an incident with his mother. In addition, two former friends accused him of harassment, saying that he had done threats and reduced their tires – although it was not clear if the criminal charges followed these accusations because the Pope was minor at the time.
Pope’s file includes a 2021 criminal affair in which he was accused of having posted a deadly weapon and resistance to arrest. The following year, in September 2022, he pleaded guilty to the accusation of resistance. The rest of the accusations were rejected. He was sentenced in October 2022 to two years of formal probation.
But while this affair has made its way throughout the process, in the weeks which were guilty, the archives of the civil court indicate that his mother obtained an emergency protection order to keep her son away from her. The prescription also sought to force him to leave the family home.
The sheriff deputy who completed the request for this protection prescription wrote that Pope had pulled his mother from his vehicle when she arrived at her house, “dragged her in the street” and tried to get her keys from the car.
The request notes that Pope, who had an arrest warrant for his arrest at that time, was barricaded inside the house.
Years earlier, in 2016, when he was a minor, Pope asked for a ban on the civil court against two former friends he had said in ambush in his garage and having beat him. This case ended with an agreement not stated in court documents, although a declaration filed in another case indicates that it had agreed to remain far from each other.
Three months later, one of these friends and a third friend looked for content orders. The two alleged Pope had cut their tires and threatened with harm that they took seriously. These civil harassment affairs were rejected when no party presented itself to the court.
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California Daily Newspapers
