OAKLAND — In September 2021, the physique of a 37-year-old San Leandro man was discovered certain and gagged with duct tape, ratchet straps, rope, and fabric alongside a piece of Redwood Street in Castro Valley.
9 months later, three males have been charged with kidnapping and murdering a sufferer in a case that investigators say was motivated by a dispute over methamphetamine.
Bryan Wu, 32, Kevin Woodruff, 34, and Richardo Onteveros, also referred to as Steve Hanna, had been charged with kidnapping and murdering Benjamin Hemmann. The charging information allege Hemmann was killed throughout the course of a kidnapping however don’t specify how he died.
An Alameda County Sheriff’s spokesman stated it was unclear whether or not Hemmann died on the aspect of the highway or earlier, however added that his loss of life appeared to have occurred quickly after he was kidnapped from one other location within the Bay Space. Hemmann’s physique was found round 2:30 p.m. Sept. 6, close to Chabot Regional Park.
Alameda Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Kelly stated detectives recognized the three suspects via the motive for the murder, which he declined to explain past saying it “needed to do with the meth world.” Wu was arrested Could 17 and Woodruff was arrested 10 days later; Onteveros was not in custody in Alameda County, information confirmed Thursday.
“The detectives labored that case for a number of months and had been finally capable of clear up it with lots of follow-up and good investigative work,” Kelly stated.
Neither Wu nor Woodruff have entered pleas. Each are being held in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with out bail, information present.
The charging information allege Onteveros has a number of convictions for violent felonies, together with on costs of assault in Oregon in 2012, and tried homicide in Alameda County in 1997.