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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 5:08PM
A concern travel turned into a nightmare for a Bay Area pistillate aft authorities accidental she was carjacked astatine knifepoint successful Madera County Friday morning.
MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The pistillate who reported a carjacking to authorities successful Madera County past week has present been arrested aft deputies accidental it was staged.
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The Madera County Sheriff's Office says 57-year-old Martha Gutierrez DeRomero, a Vallejo resident, told them that 2 men approached her erstwhile she was pulled implicit connected the broadside of the roadworthy on Avenue 21 and Road 26.
She told deputies that the men pulled retired a weapon and demanded her vehicle.
Investigators accidental 1 antheral drove distant with her van, and the different drove disconnected successful a achromatic SUV.
DeRomero told deputies that the items successful her van were valued astatine $60,000.
After a follow-up interview, deputies discovered that DeRomero and her boyfriend, Alfredo Delezma, staged the incidental arsenic portion of an security fraud scheme.
Authorities recovered the van, and besides recovered the merchandise astatine a retention installation successful Merced.
DeRomero was booked into the Madera County Jail for felony security fraud, conspiracy and filing a mendacious constabulary report.
Delezma could besides look charges.
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