DA PACHECO LAUDS 10 MURDER CONVICTIONS IN 6 DAYS

RIVERSIDE, CA – Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco announced today that Deputy District Attorneys in Riverside County have obtained guilty murder convictions on 10 defendants over the course of six days.

“We have never seen such an achievement in such a short period of time before,” said District Attorney Rod Pacheco. “These remarkable convictions are the result of the hard work of the entire law enforcement community in very difficult cases.”

Between July 29, 2009 and August 3, 2009, the following 10 people were convicted of murder in Riverside County:

• Deputy District Attorney William Robinson obtained two murder convictions in the case of Ralph Jamie Rojas and Daniel Anthony Ruvacaba, RIF136340.
• Deputy District Attorney Ambrosio Rodriguez obtained a murder conviction is the case of Robert Thomas Finley, RIF136966.
• Deputy District Attorney Amy Barajas obtained a murder conviction in the case of Ruperto Lopez Rojo, RIF142794.
• Deputy District Attorney Victoria Weiss obtained a murder conviction in the case of Efrain Soltero Gutierrez, INF054424.
• Deputy District Attorney Daniel DeLimon obtained two murder convictions in the case of Dayana Cordova and Anna Alejandra Salinas, SWF023165.
• Deputy District Attorney Christopher Cook obtained three murder convictions in the case of Cesar Anai Rangel, Julio Cesar Cruz and Martin Marguia, RIF121996

“In spite of all of the budget cuts and limited resources our prosecutors continue to get the job done,” said Pacheco. “Our hard working dedicated prosecutors will continue to convict those who seek to victimize our community.”