Overview
- Jonathan Andrés Peralta, a 32-year-old highway police sergeant, was arrested and processed on charges of kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and armed robbery, then declined to testify during his investigative hearing.
- Detectives seized his service weapon, a vehicle with fake plates and his cellphone, which will undergo geolocation and content analysis to test the victim’s timeline.
- The complainant reported being forced into her car in City Bell, driven about 30 minutes to Parque Pereyra Iraola and assaulted; her vehicle and phone remain missing.
- In a separate investigation, psychiatrist Virginia Franco was found dead in her City Bell home, with an autopsy citing hypovolemic shock from multiple cutting wounds and injuries consistent with defense.
- Garganta’s office is reviewing security footage, antenna records and a released witness’s phone in the Franco case, which has no arrests and is treated as a homicide in the context of a robbery, according to court reporting.