The San Bernardino Mountains girl accused of murdering her 1-year-old son had a warrant out for her arrest that was nonetheless lively this week — greater than 9 years after she didn’t report back to jail following a child-abuse conviction in 2013, Superior Courtroom information present.
Samantha Victoria Garver, 33, and her boyfriend, 32-year-old Sergio Mena, have been booked on suspicion of homicide on Sunday, Oct. 2, within the loss of life of Henry Wheatley Brown. Medics responding to a report of a child not respiration at a Surgarloaf dwelling discovered the boy burned and unresponsive, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division stated. Sugarloaf is a neighborhood east of Massive Bear Lake.
Henry was pronounced lifeless at a hospital.
There was no hearth on the dwelling that might have defined the accidents, stated Mara Rodriguez, a Sheriff’s Division spokeswoman. She declined to say particularly how Henry was burned due to the continuing investigation.
In March 2013, Garver was charged with willful baby cruelty that might trigger damage or loss of life. In April 2014, the felony cost was dropped in trade for her pleading responsible to a misdemeanor depend of willful baby cruelty. She was sentenced to 100 days in custody and was ordered to finish a one-year child-abuse remedy program.
However Garver by no means reported to the Glen Helen Rehabilitation Heart and both by no means enrolled in or accomplished the remedy program, ensuing within the arrest warrant, information present.
The circumstances of the abuse in that case are unclear. A District Lawyer’s Workplace spokeswoman couldn’t be reached for remark Tuesday.
Additionally unclear is how Garver managed to stay free for thus lengthy after the arrest warrant was issued in 2014.
Rodriguez stated every station periodically receives an inventory of excellent warrants, for misdemeanors and felonies, of their jurisdiction. The deputies at these stations, when time permits between occurring patrols, reserving suspects, following up on crimes and performing different duties, will go to the final identified deal with in an try and find the particular person.
If that particular person is now not at that deal with and there’s no forwarding deal with, deputies will take a look at databases to attempt to discover an up to date deal with. If they’re unable to find the particular person, the warrant will probably be checked once more later, Rodriguez stated.
