LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A girl who informed police she stabbed and punched a person as a result of he was making sexual advances towards her is now going through a theft cost for allegedly stealing the person’s van.
Las Vegas Metropolitan police turned suspicious in regards to the story Maritza Gonzalez, 32, informed them as a result of some proof informed a distinct story. Police additionally later realized the sufferer lied, based on the arrest report.
Las Vegas Metropolitan police acquired a name shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Monday, April 21, from a lady who stated her father was carjacked and severely injured.
The sufferer informed police that he believed he was adopted by a automotive after he left a retailer the place he was enjoying slot machines. He stated the automotive pulled in entrance of him, and a lady jumped out, forcing him to cease his van. The report states he informed police the lady opened the motive force’s door and commenced stabbing him in an try to get his keys. The sufferer stated a person additionally joined within the beating assault, and as soon as the 2 bought his keys, they fled within the van.
The sufferer’s daughter used GPS to trace the situation of a cellphone within the lacking van, and officers did find it on a neighborhood road close to E. Lake Mead and N. Lamb boulevards close to the place Gonzalez lives.
When officers considered video surveillance footage from the shop, it confirmed the sufferer standing behind the lady, later recognized as Gonzalez, and he seemed to be giving her a hug from behind and giving her some cash. The video additionally confirmed them leaving the shop minutes aside.
After Gonzalez was recognized and arrested, she informed police the sufferer provided her a experience residence. She stated the sufferer was intoxicated and flirting along with her, inflicting her to worry for her security, particularly when he stopped the van for 20 minutes. Gonzalez stated the 2 bought right into a combat that resulted within the man getting stabbed and exiting the van. Gonzalez stated she drove it to close her residence.
After investigating the GPS monitoring, it confirmed the van by no means stopped for 20 minutes. It was pushed from the shop to the place it was later positioned, police stated. That brought about police to develop into suspicious of Gonzalez’s story, together with the truth that she had earlier arrests for comparable crimes.
When the sufferer was questioned once more, he admitted he lied to police by telling them a person helped Gonzalez beat him up, however no such man existed.
The report stated the sufferer was “covered in blood” and had a major reduce on his proper forearm and acquired emergency therapy at a neighborhood hospital.
Gonzalez, who’s going through a theft cost, stays in custody and is scheduled to seem in courtroom for a preliminary listening to on Could 20, based on data.
