People v. Hernandez CA2/8

STATEMENT OF FACTS

On August 21, 2013, Roxanne Golchini checked into a room at Casa 425, a hotel in Claremont, for a one-night stay. The next morning, hotel assistant manager Audrey Mangan reviewed the guest list and recognized Golchini’s name as someone who had stayed at the hotel for a few days a month earlier, causing damage to the room, smoking in the room,

Undesignated statutory citations are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.

2 causing the bathtub to overflow, and breaking items. A month later, Mangan had learned that the credit card Golchini used was fraudulent. Around the same time, the hotel had been contacted by a local merchant reporting that Golchini had used a fraudulent credit card with that merchant while she was a guest at Casa 425. As a result, the general manager of the hotel had filed a formal complaint with the Claremont Police Department. When Mangan saw Golchini’s name on the guest registry on August 22, 2013, she contacted the general manager and called the police to request assistance evicting Golchini from the room. Four Claremont police officers arrived at the hotel around 8:00 a.m. on August 22, 2013, in response to Mangan’s call. After…