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Littlerock human remains suspect also wanted for two murders in February

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Victims Gerard “Jerry” De Luna and Mariano Campos were found dead Feb. 20 at a home in the 11000 block of Hampel Avenue in Littlerock, sheriff’s officials said.

LOS ANGELES – The man authorities said is a person of interest in the discovery of human remains at a property near Littlerock is also wanted for questioning in connection with the murders of two men in February, authorities said.

Jesus “Chuy” Guzman is known to carry weapons and should be considered armed and dangerous, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Suspect Jesus “Chuy” Guzman [LASD]
Guzman, 34, is considered a person of interest in the Feb. 20 murders of Gerard “Jerry” De Luna and Mariano Campos at a home in the 11000 block of Hampel Avenue in Littlerock, the statement said. Additional details of that case were not immediately available.

Guzman is Hispanic, 5 feet 5, about 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He owns a black 2009 Toyota Corolla, California license plate 6SCD663.

Detectives named Guzman as a person of interest after the Oct. 11 discovery of remains belonging to three people on a property in the 30900 block of 106th Street in an area of Littlerock known as Juniper Hills, the Sheriff’s Department said. Additional remains were located Oct. 23 apart from where the original remains were found, but it was unclear if those remains were connected to the original discovery or were from different victims.

Homicide detectives were sent about 3:55 p.m. on Oct. 11 to the property, which had a burned-out structure and car on it. They were investigating the fatalities as suspicious, though how the three died and their identities have not been released and the coroner’s office reports the case is on a security hold, meaning no information about the investigation would be released until detectives lift the hold.

The sheriff’s department did not disclose how the remains came to light, nor say whether the grisly find was related to the disappearance of two men and a woman in the area in January.

A $20,000 reward was offered by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in April for information in the case 65-year-old Jose Lara, 39-year-old Cuauhtemoc Lara, and 49-year-old Julieta Arvizu, who left behind what seemed to be all their possessions and were presumed dead after they disappeared.

Jose Lara, Cuauhtemoc Lara, Julieta Arvizu. [Images via LASD]
The elder Lara’s vehicle was found abandoned on Feb. 5 in Littlerock, where all three lived. Their cellphones were turned off and had not been used since the date they vanished.

Anyone with any information about the case is encouraged to call Detective Louie Augilera or Detective Marc Boisvert at 323-890-5500. Tipsters can also call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).

Previous related stories:

Additional remains found on property near Littlerock

Detectives searching for “person of interest” related to human remains discovery

Remains of three people found near Littlerock

Remains found near Littlerock, unclear if they’re human

Detective seeking help in local missing persons case, $20K reward

LA County offers $20,000 to find 3 missing, presumed dead

 

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48 comments for "Littlerock human remains suspect also wanted for two murders in February"

  2. MENIFEE (CBSLA) – Jesus Guzman who is wanted in connection with the bodies of at least three people found on a property in the Antelope Valley community of Littlerock — as well as a separate double-murder case in Little Rock— is also now a suspect in a home invasion murder which occurred back in February in the Riverside County town of Menifee.

    Thirty-four-year-old Jesus Chuy Guzman is one of two men suspected in the home invasion murder of 43-year-old Silvano Esteves. The other suspect, 35-year-old Rodolfo Garcia, was arrested by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department SWAT on Oct. 29.

    According to the sheriff’s department, in the early morning hours of Feb. 5, Guzman and Garcia forced their way into Esteves home in the 7700 block of Monroe Avenue and killed him in a botched home-invasion robbery. Investigators believe the men targeted Esteves’ home because of a large amount of marijuana which was found there

    • There are more hitmen in the AV that work for those drug cartels. The problem is bigger than the police expect. We need to vote for Trump because he’s initiating another war against drugs just like Regan declared. Donald is the true father of this nation.

          • Mikey! Been a while since you graced us with your stupidity!

            I was asking if the call for another war on drugs really made sense to Sam, given that the last one was a complete failure with absolutely abysmal consequences.

      • The war on drugs in the U.S. has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons, and cost a fortune. There wouldn’t be drug cartels in the U.S. if there wasn’t a demand for drugs by the citizens that live here. Don’t be a pawn.

  3. Common Sense: The person who killed those three went out of their way to hide the murder. Nobody knew where they were buried. The person who called in with the tip is associated to the killing or they’re a family member of Guzman.

  4. I believe you because I saw him with his brother when they tried breaking into my home. His brother looks similar to him but is younger. Wow! He doesn’t know the police has evidence against him for multiple murders. I know he had an association with the Hernandez gang. They work for the same drug Lord in Palmdale. Those drug dealers are too busy working to watch the news. They make two trips a day to Vegas carrying 20 million in coke.

  5. This Chuy Guzman was at the gas station last week…. He said to me my brother likes you. He was identical looking to photo. I thought wow someone likes me. Me? The grandma neighbors ridicuol… If it was this man at least he was nicer to me than anyone of my neighbors. Shrug….

  6. Oh no! Fruit vendors, tacos, and tamales?!? The horror!!!
    Counter balance it with some hot dogs… ‍♀️

    • Click the reply button under the comment you are referring too (like I just did) – The comment box at the bottom of the page is for new comments and will appear at the top of the page. OR people like me will scratch their heads and say “what the heck is she talking about?” and have to scroll through every comment to figure it out.

    • Wow wendy… Did you know that a fruit vendor shooting heroin just spread the deadly hepatitis disease… Yes look into archives he was on 40th west and avenue L… He had hepatitis from shooting heroin and his horrid hygeine touching your sweet fruit drink from his corner dirty vending shitbox… They sit on a dirt lot hours with a little ice box no toilet no toilet paper no water yeah your corner vendor has the best fruit your can suck…

  7. Campos and Guzman sport the same gouty. It’s probably a fashion fad with cartel members. It’s obvious Guzman picked up gouty style and instantly knew they belonged to a different cartel since they weren’t employed by Guzman’s boss. Guzman probably followed them and caught them running drugs, he quickly got rid of competition. You’re probably correct.

  8. It’s clear to see that the same conditions in Mexico apply here. Cartels fight each other for routed equate to profits. The Little Rock drug route is profits which means that Guzman killed De Luna and Campos because they belonged to a different cartel.

  9. Whoa wouldnt this make Guzman a serial killer? Dang, Scary. Also I hope everyone is just trolling.. I seriously dont want to think we have the Cartel in our back yard..

    • I think the legal definition of serial killer doesn’t include murder-for-hire, which the rumor mill purports that this case is.

      As to having “the cartel in our back yard,” truth is that drugs are everywhere, so the illegal enterprises that produce them, transport them, and sell them are going to be everywhere also. For the most part, if your next door neighbor goes to work every day digging ditches, selling refrigerators, cultivating marijuana in Wrecks and his cronies legal grow facility in Lancaster, or at a distribution center where truckloads of coke are broken down into smaller shipments, it won’t make any difference for you. A job is just a job. Victims of “cartel violence” are almost always in some way or another mixed up in the cartel’s business, they aren’t just neighbors.

      • Serial killer – a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern.
        As opposed to Cereal Killer – a song by a bad named Green Jelly (Originally Green Jell-o until they lost the lawsuit)

      • Do you know that cartels funtion in a capitalists septic pool? The guys at the top make all the money and your next door neighbor gets the scraps which means your low class drug dealer is going to break into your house to rape and rob you of you meager earning. The rich drug Lord’s live in Quartz Hills. Just drive through there and look for the fantasy cars.

      • Tim, have you wondered why Jose Lara, Cuauhtemoc Lara, Julieta Arvizu were murdered? Three innocent, elderly, physically disabled individuals who are not criminals. It’s obvious they didn’t have money. You have to look at their value. It’s obvious that someone knew that a large reward would be offered for their missing bodies, dead or alive. They convinced Guzman to kill them for half the reward money. They decided to make it a one way split by reporting Guzman and collecting the reward for themselves. With Guzman on the run he would never claim his share. The person who reported the tip and got the reward masterminded the murders of those three.

        • I Guzman likes to work alone, to avert witnesses. The person who called in the tip got information from Guzman. Guzman would only shares information with a business partner who’s going to pay him, a person so involved in the murder’s that Guzman would never suspect that person would call police and hand him over to keep all the reward money. Get Guzman to run would allow his partner to keep all the money. The partner was probably a woman who believes herself to be less guilty looking.

        • Sam, I have no knowledge of those people, or why anyone would want them murdered. I also haven’t seen anything definitive linking them to the remains that have been found. I will say that if you think that going halves on a “large reward” of twenty grand is enough to motivate three murders you move in a very low budget hit man circle. I mean, i know there are guys that will kill someone for a sixpack, but they aren’t making bodies disappear mysteriously.

        • They were murderred for their prescriptions by their daughter she wanted to get their social security checks but… It backfired. Reality check….

    • Could be. A serial killer is described as anyone that commits several or more murders, usually in service of abnormal gratification. Sammy “the bull” killed at least 20, and would e a serial killer, but the feds gave him five years, and “The Witness Protection Program” because he ratted on Tevlon Don. Different authorities apply different criteria. Anyway you are more likely to be killed by a drunk driver.

  10. Someone here knows something about Monique Figueroa and needs to speak the [removed] already!

    • Yes they do! #JusticeForMonique just tell the truth already! Half of Littlerock knows what happened to her. That makes each and every one of you who know complicit in her kidnapping and murder! Your silence on the matter to law enforcement makes it so. You will spend the rest of your lives having to live with the truth that you gossiped about what happened to Monique with your low life tweaker friends, but were too cowardly to do something about it. Submit a tip. You can stay anonymous. The 20,0000 reward is still up for grabs. Take the money, and get the hell out of the Antelope Valley!

  13. The antelope valley is proof that every law biding legal American citizen needs to be the owner of a legally registered fire arm. We cannot expect law enforcement to protect us in our moment of need. The LACSD and other law enforcement agencies do a GREAT job but there just is not enough of them to be at our home at our moment of life and death. So every American must be war-ready. We are at war with the illegal forces that are against our nation, cartels, gangs, anti socials. America was built by brave men and women who were ready to fight at any moment for “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”

  14. That area has turned into a sewer. My buddy bought his house in the 80s out there and put a lot of money into to retire, but since it’s tuned so bad he’s having to move. There are all day every day roadside yard sells, illegal fruit vendors with carts, taco carts everywhere, and people selling tamales out of their trunk everywhere. It’s turned into a 3rd world mess.

    • The least of his problems are the tamale vendors. There are over a dozen Sineloa cartel hitmen hiding in Little Rock. They guard the Las Vegas drug route from the Zeta cartel, the Juarez cartel, the deadly Zeta cartel, the Gulf cartel, the Tijuana cartel, and the second most dangerous New Generation cartel. There are thousands of illegals buried in Little Rock and thousands more were melted away in blue barrels filled with acid. I saw them transporting the blue barrel’s two years ago. They have kidnapped thousands of school girls from southern California and they have taken advantage of them and they all were melted away in those blue barrels. They were trained in Mexico and the cartel bosses transferred them into California.

      • America’s insatiable appetite for illegal drugs brings drug cartels to our communities. They are supplying what citizens want, for the purpose of putting stuff up their noses, down their throats, and in their veins. The violence that comes with the illegal trade is what the consequences are that accompany addiction. Alcohol related deaths are much more in number, so the person that decides to legally drink a few shots of Patron, and hit the road, might want to consider the consequences.

      • you sure know a decent amount of their activities……………………………………………….