A fourth arrest was made within the kidnapping and assault of a 13-year-old Fresno County woman that investigators say was a part of a plan by her father’s ex-girlfriend to convey a few reconciliation.
Brandon Roque, 25, of Madera — arrested final week — is the girl’s older son. Already arrested within the case have been Sandra Garcia, 47; her different son, Mark Anthony Roque, 24; and her cousin, Miguel Carriedo, 46. All 4 stay in Fresno County Jail.
The kidnapping occurred on Feb. 16, 2016, within the Academy neighborhood, a cluster of upscale houses east of Clovis. The 13-year-old, who was strolling house from the varsity bus cease, stated she was grabbed and compelled into the trunk of a BMW by a gaggle of masked males.
They drove her 20 miles to a distant space within the Sierra Nevada foothills, the place they tied her to a tree, beat her and sexually assaulted her. After they drove away, she managed to free herself and — bruised and bloodied — walked greater than a mile earlier than getting assist from a resident on the Chilly Springs Rancheria.
Inside two weeks, Garcia, Mark Roque and Carriedo have been recognized as suspects. The mom and youthful son have been arrested in June 2016, and Carriedo in August 2020.
On the time of the preliminary arrests, the Fresno County sheriff’s workplace stated the kidnapping was a part of Garcia’s plot to reunite with the woman’s father in order that she can be allowed to remain within the Clovis house the place he lived together with his daughters. They stated she apparently hoped that the kidnapping would scare the woman a lot that she and her youthful sister would go reside with their mom.
In a petition for a restraining order filed by the daddy after the kidnapping, he stated Garcia — whom he met on a relationship website — had been residing in his house for a yr however that he had given her a date to depart after his daughters moved in. “Our backgrounds have been completely different and there have been difficulties at occasions, and I believed it was finest for Sandra to maneuver out,” he wrote within the doc.
Brandon Roque, who was 19 on the time of the assault, is being held on fees of kidnapping, torture, conspiracy, sexual assault and intimidating a witness.