People v. Sedano CA4/3

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The crimes committed in this case were connected to an alleged drug operation headed up by Ontiveros. Ontiveros supplied drugs to customers in San Bernardino and surrounding areas, moving large amounts of them, including heroin and cocaine, through the area. He used four people to deliver the drugs. Two of those four people—Rafael Eladio Torres Moreno and Martinez2—were murdered within a few days of one another between December 10 and 15, 2013.3 Martinez’s cousin, Victim 2, was the victim of a shooting that occurred on December 12, 2013. A. Background In 2013, Martinez was a teenager living with his mother in Delano. He and his girlfriend, who was only referred to at trial as Jane Doe 1 (“Martinez’s girlfriend”), had a baby together. Jane Doe 1 is Ontiveros’s niece. She introduced Martinez to Ontiveros in October 2013 at a family

2 Moreno is often referred to in the record by his nickname “Rafa” and Martinez by his preferred name “Eric.” For the sake of clarity and consistency, we refer to the two decedents only as Moreno and Martinez. While aspects of Moreno’s murder were brought up during Sedano’s trial, Sedano was not charged in connection with that…