NATIONAL CITY
A woman who hunkered down overnight in a San Diego trash bin alongside a fugitive during a SWAT standoff had spent several days on the run with him, a National City police official said Wednesday.
Janeth Iriarte, 33, was with fugitive Christopher Marquez during an 11-hour standoff that ended Tuesday morning when San Diego police shot Marquez to death, fearing he was about to kill Iriarte. Police pulled Iriarte from the container uninjured.
Hours later, National City police booked Iriarte into jail on suspicion of vehicle theft and being an accessory to a crime after the fact. She is accused of helping Marquez lay low after he opened fire on police in the South County city last week. It’s not clear if or when she will be arraigned on the charges, and it was not immediately known if she had an attorney.
The pursuit wound its way to the north and west, eventually reaching Loma Portal via Interstate 8, Dobbs said. There, the fleeing driver exited the freeway, then promptly doubled back and got back onto it near the intersection of Nimitz and West Point Loma boulevards. Just a day after schools reopened for in-class instruction, several downtown San Diego were forced to return to online class due to an hourslong standoff. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has details for you.
As the suspect s vehicle entered eastbound I-8, one of the occupants fired on the pursuing police cruiser, he said. The chase then continued to the south into the East Village, where the police vehicle was again fired on in the area of A Street and 10th Avenue.
Woman with fugitive in deadly San Diego HS standoff arrested
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NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (CNS) - A woman who was alongside a fugitive during a SWAT standoff at San Diego High School was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of vehicle theft and being an accessory to a crime after the fact, police said.
Janeth Iriarte, 33, was with 36-year-old Christopher Templo Marquez during an 11-hour standoff at the Park Boulevard campus that ended Tuesday morning when two SWAT officers fatally shot Marquez, fearing he was about to kill Iriarte, according to National City police. Iriarte was uninjured during the encounter.
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Authorities asked the public Tuesday for help in tracking down a felon suspected of shooting a private investigator and firing on police on separate occasions to evade arrest in the South Bay.
The first of the two shootings allegedly committed by 36-year-old Christopher Templo Marquez over the last three weeks left the private investigator with non-lethal bullet wounds in Chula Vista, authorities reported.
The second shooting did not injure the officers, who returned fire as the suspect made his escape by running across Interstate 5 in National City.
The shootout with police occurred about 2:45 a.m. Monday, after the driver of a stolen car Marquez was riding in was pulled over outside a Jack in the Box on Roosevelt Avenue near Seventh Street, National City police Lt. David Bavencoff said.
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